Happenings: A Tragico-lyrical Philosophical Essay

Among the many decisive political changes that have occurred in the past few years that bode poorly for our shared future is the US’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the appointment of men with histories of sexual assault to positions that will determine law and political policy. Happenings is an interactive philosophical essay that takes the form of a cinematically haunted digital poem that mashes up the work of Carolee Schneeman, the 1970s feminist performance artist who famously pulled a scroll out of her vagina, with the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Abel Azonca, Vladimir Nabokov, and other men for whom the imagination of sexual violence was inextricably bound to their art.