NewPoetry

Julia Polyck-O’Neill

different garments on her naked
body multiple unnamed personas
one of the most significant acts of
art in the century
we are very separate, he argued
well yeah
well how do you describe performance
I work in performance as a form of diplomacy
most things people don’t know what I’m doing
my hands connect to my eyes like a complicated
computer
there is a tendency to be absorbed in my own life
only after she didn’t exist anymore
sometimes I have been unaware of what happened
as the performance continued I became more
depressed
on behalf of the institute
she used performance to convey the trauma
I think it was stolen
I think I want to free myself of the past
it is a mask or was
she warned of the dangers of hiding from the past so
I wear the past like a uniform
I appreciate the functionality of a long coat
I think deeply about praxis in general
why do I try to push a monolith
I am remembering a particular conversation
my body immersed in a bath and bathed in cheap
oils
it’s not just an idea
there is so much pressure
mum has regulations and we followed them
it is usually about the power
nakedness has always been there throughout history