incapacity

 

Jeanne Heuving's Incapacity is literature, autobiography, biography. Written at a time that has given rise to a plethora of autobiographies and memoirs, Incapacity performs an act of negativity, clearing and naming its space, its difficulty. If art is a form of holding, an exploration of being, Incapacity engages the edges of a terrain where lush and exacting scenes fall into dereliction and disrepair. Hybrid poetry and prose, palimpsestic phantasmagoria and journals, Incapacity is a streaming, an ongoingness, that refuses encapsulation.

"INCAPACITY uses the separation of us/one as passive viewers, who see their own actions as outside them only always: taking this very separation of the present from language (conventional seeing), which is pain, as the means itself of inverting one's relation to others -- love stood on end -- she moves the terrain, fast-forwarding and flashbacks at once, to see not even the formation of events but seeing in their midst. The telling is no longer merely the subject nor the subject merely outside one: 'She is submerged in it. Everything is: the street, the town, this stranger.'"

-- Leslie Scalapino