We Hold Where Study
We Hold Where Study is part of Wu Tsang’s research on how the relationships between individuals and communities are represented. This diptych video, inaugurated by the voice of the poet Fred Moten, presents two duo dance scenes choreographed by, respectively, Boychild and Ligia Lewis, and interpreted by par Josh Johnson and Jonathan González. Their black, queer and trans bodies move against an empty green field and the intense red lighting of a dance studio. The scenes soon overlap to create an opaque central seam. According to Fred Moten, if Western whiteness is built on notions of individuality and separation, blackness —which includes queer and trans cultures— is about entanglement. In this visual junction lies the tall task of representing violence and the regeneration of social ties in one and the same gesture.
