All Bodies radiate light

Composed of Laura Huertas Millan, Onyeka Igwe and Rachael Rakes, Counter Encounters is a curatorial and research initiative active since 2019. They engage forms of anti- and alter- ethnographies in cinema and contemporary art. They have presented programmes and exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Art of the Real at Lincoln Center, New York); and It’s a Mutant Space conference, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

The collective recently contributed a text to the catalogue for the exhibition No Master Territories at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and are editing the October issue of the journal World Records.

Female voice: Hello.

I have this strange surge of anxiety, timed like waves, that I think might be peace, spackled over with discomfort at its sight.

Each moment will exist only insofar as it has exterminated the present moment, its father.

A world that dies and is reborn in every instant.

The total inconstancy of all reality is a terrible and overwhelming image. What it represents is analogous to the sensations of someone caught in an earthquake who loses their trust in solid ground.

We fall in all directions.

I am aware that I have a bit of a reputation as a Sophist, more interested in seeming to be clever than in truly being wise, more ambitious to establish a new and false sect than to support that which is old and true; a bird catcher, trying to capture splendor and glory; an unquiet spirit, trying to undermine the foundations of good discipline by using siege engines of perversity.

I certainly make no falsehood, if I err, it is by accident, and I do strive for love of victory itself– because empty success and hollow victory are enemies of God, vile, and without honor, and such are not truly triumphs–rather, I suffer, torment and tire myself for love of true knowledge and contemplation.

In the spaces where there is no world, there be only void. . . On all sides there is enormous room for more things, in all directions the universe is without limit or end.

Make it nastier on the low line, low life.

Do you know what lies at the bottom of the main stream?

Bodies swollen with, lost in, time. Out of it, sight.

Psychic taxation schematic with a spacious center.

She sits and reads me Wittgenstein in one long breath. A rude and awful form of eloquence.

How do you do a character study of no one?

A knight of the grail in a secular world.

We're talking infinite worlds, new worlds, no center point.

The problem of reality's fracturing revealing reality's natural, inherent, a priori fracture. The problem of the misidentification of this very problem. Tagging and bagging it as something else entirely.

The winter of our lives, when the weather is no longer quite so mild and extremity not only looms but draws us in like a fire licking around a living room in the distance. A great wind of insurrection in the world, a cold harsh, arctic wind, a murderous but thoroughly bracing wind that cleanses inescapably, like the imperceptible tide of death. They dare not venture outside, except for she who is intoxicated by this icy and refreshing violence. A slap in the face.

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