1. Sam Creely, Pia Sazani: Throat Draw Come Out With It

In 1982, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker choreographed “Come Out” as part of Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, a performance that uses variation and repetition in order to “think about the relationship between music and dance.” In 1966, Reich composed “Come Out,” commissioned to raise funds for the retrial of the Harlem Six—Wallace Baker, Daniel Hamm, William Craig, Ronald Felder, Walter Thomas, and Robert Rice—who were arrested in 1964 for a murder for which there remains no proof of their connection. Reich’s track features a four-second audio clip on loop spoken by Hamm during a taped interview with civil rights activist Truman Nelson that also provided material for Nelson’s 1968 book The Torture of Mothers. Throat Draw Come Out With It takes notes on this trajectory: how seventy hours of tape became four seconds became a book became a song became a dance. In doing so, it examines how abstraction and adaptation work in relation to historical subjectivity.

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Pia Sazani is a teacher, writer, and artist. Writing and making between poetry, performance text, and science fiction, her work investigates queer timescales, fragile languages of indoctrination, and the entanglement of meaning and matter. Her work has been published by Wolfman Books, Denver Quarterly, and Vallum.

Sam Creely is a Toronto-based writer, editor, bookmaker, and educator. Their work engages anticolonial and queer methodologies, turning syntax against institutional systems of logic or sense. Their research in early modern textile history pursues questions about the implications of trade language in English lexical semantics and morphology.

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