[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":191},["ShallowReactive",2],{"article:waiting":3,"page:48":118,"page:321":154},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"excerpt":7,"date":8,"year":9,"formattedDate":10,"typeIds":11,"typeNames":13,"wordCount":15,"isBlack":16,"image":17,"contributors":24,"contentHtml":29,"finalContentHtml":30,"creditsHtml":22,"pdfUrl":31,"vimeo":31,"contributorBios":32,"seo":37},596,"waiting","Waiting","\u003Cp>Written in the first wave of the pandemic, Anna Zoria’s time-coded prose describes procrastination as means towards processing trauma, and as a part of the artistic process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n","2021-02-01T11:50:00",2021,"Feb 2021",[12],4,[14],"Creative",1350,false,{"src":18,"srcset":19,"width":20,"height":21,"alt":22,"lqip":23},"https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-feature-50.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-feature-50-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-feature-50-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-feature-50.jpg 1920w",1920,1080,"","data:image\u002Fwebp;base64,UklGRnIAAABXRUJQVlA4IGYAAAAQBACdASogABIAPu1qsFAppiUjKAqpMB2JZQC7ADSmZn3Dbk7NCqxHgAD+0Z9pf0Yd3stsTq571+rasJjz6zlvFKz3upk6ns8LJ5\u002FcViciCIrSKMgugPQB9TqK973b6t0hrKCecAA=",[25],{"id":26,"name":27,"slug":28},585,"Anna Zoria","585","\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cspan class=\"lqip-wrap\" style=\"background-image:url("data:image\u002Fsvg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\u002F\u002Fwww.w3.org\u002F2000\u002Fsvg' viewBox='0 0 320 241'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\u002F%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\u002F%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\u002F%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\u002F%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\u002F%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\u002F%3E%3C\u002Ffilter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\u002Fwebp;base64,UklGRrYAAABXRUJQVlA4IKoAAACwBQCdASogABgAPu1ur1IppiQiqAgBMB2JYwCw7Fbp00B0T4qAZBRBklip+JbDLd2EqNsDFAAA\u002Frg41EICHRDS2VBuSBiTwWwvK0sQdMwgq8GgXIci2UDXLOHQr8dxZdwiPZ9Td0dbL1SsIKN+FSQKpH79n1NuNxj1Mt2TfJ22jSvQHvFKXp\u002FXrSRWOivRwGFYQujmwfM\u002FPs09svZbvTd+aesuFEfsX3gAAA=='\u002F%3E%3C\u002Fsvg%3E")\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1443\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-feature-100-full.jpg\" alt=\"Waiting Feature Image Full Size\" class=\"lqip wp-image-597\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-feature-100-full.jpg 1920w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-feature-100-full-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-feature-100-full-1536x1154.jpg 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-feature-100-full-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cfigcaption>Still from an unfinished short film about my routine.\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>10:00\u003C\u002Fstrong>  It felt like time would stop, like new seasons would not come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>11:45\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I have words on the tip of my tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>13:30 \u003C\u002Fstrong> I watch Akerman’s \u003Cem>Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman\u003C\u002Fem>:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cem>I’m up against a black hole. It’s worse than the period in between two films, \u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cem>when I don’t know yet what the next one will be. I look back at my previous films and think, ‘It was a stranger who was able to make those. I’ll never be able to do it again, to make any more. I don’t want to. Leave me alone.’ And everyone leaves me alone, except myself. People ask about the next film, but only out of curiosity. And me, I have my habits, they’re difficult to break. So I am doomed to keep making work, again, and again, and always.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cspan id='easy-footnote-1-596'>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan class='easy-footnote'>\u003Csup id='easy-footnote-1-596' content='Director Chantal Akerman, \u003Cem>Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman\u003C\u002Fem> (1996; Paris: Cinéma, de notre temps, 1997), Documentary.' v-tippy='{ allowHTML: true }'>1\u003C\u002Fsup>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>18:35\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I am six months pregnant. I am not sure what working means to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>18:36\u003C\u002Fstrong>  My partner and I split up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>20:12\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I am not sure if not working makes me happy, or unhappy. I look up the meaning of the saying, ‘the devil finds work for idle hands.’ Someone on Reddit writes, “It means that if you’re not doing something useful, you’ll end up doing something annoying, destructive or just plain stupid, out of boredom.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>21:03 \u003C\u002Fstrong> My work has made me good at waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I am waiting for the baby to come.\u003Cbr>Now I am waiting to see if the words will come.\u003Cbr>Now I am waiting to see if I will be able to make work again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>23:14 \u003C\u002Fstrong> What it comes down to, I think, is putting words to paper. But the pain has been too great and too sprawling. Not enough time has passed to make it into something. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>02:00\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I ruminate. I go in circles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>03:12\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I borrow the words of others, because I cannot yet put words to my pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The words of Sarah Kane in \u003Cem>4:48 Psychosis\u003C\u002Fem>:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cem>I would rather have lost my legs pulled out my teeth\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>gouged out my eyes\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>than lost my love.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cspan id='easy-footnote-2-596'>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan class='easy-footnote'>\u003Csup id='easy-footnote-2-596' content='Sarah Kane, \u003Cem>4:48 Psychosis \u003C\u002Fem>(London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2000), 28.' v-tippy='{ allowHTML: true }'>2\u003C\u002Fsup>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>04:18\u003C\u002Fstrong>  And elsewhere, in the same play: \u003Cbr>\u003Cem>I don’t know who I am\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>tongue out\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>thought stalled\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>the piecemeal crumple of my mind\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>Where do I start? Where do I stop? How do I start?\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>(As I mean to go on)\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cspan id='easy-footnote-3-596'>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan class='easy-footnote'>\u003Csup id='easy-footnote-3-596' content='Ibid, 23.' v-tippy='{ allowHTML: true }'>3\u003C\u002Fsup>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>05:07 \u003C\u002Fstrong> I think of Euripides’ Medea: \u003Cbr>\u003Cem>Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life\u003C\u002Fem>.\u003Cspan id='easy-footnote-4-596'>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan class='easy-footnote'>\u003Csup id='easy-footnote-4-596' content='Euripides, and Diane J. Rayor, \u003Cem>Euripides’ Medea: A New Translation\u003C\u002Fem> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 33.' v-tippy='{ allowHTML: true }'>4\u003C\u002Fsup>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>11:33\u003C\u002Fstrong>  To avoid working through my pain, I do housework.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do the laundry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do the dishes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I fluff and shake the pillows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I clean the tub.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>13:59\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I wipe the dust. It comes back a few days later. I wipe it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>14:32\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I pick any hair I see on the floor and I throw it out the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>14:49\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I use a lint roller on my bed sheets to remove any dust or dirt or sand or hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>15:17\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I wipe the table and the counters. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>16:44\u003C\u002Fstrong>  An older woman on YouTube who vlogs her daily activities says, “Cleaning is like going to the gym. It makes you feel calm.” \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also says, \u003Cbr>“You need time to look inside of you.”\u003Cspan id='easy-footnote-5-596'>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan class='easy-footnote'>\u003Csup id='easy-footnote-5-596' content='A message of consolation to you in the face of frustration,” video file, 9:14, YouTube, posted by Milanonna, March 13, 2020, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=iLn5m8i4kKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=iLn5m8i4kKw\u003C\u002Fa>.' v-tippy='{ allowHTML: true }'>5\u003C\u002Fsup>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>18:35\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I cook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>20:00\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I vacuum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>21:45\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I do laundry again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>23:00\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I do all this until there is no time left for anything else — no time for leisure (which makes me feel guilty) and no time for work (which remains ambiguous).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>11:00\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I keep myself in a cycle of household tasks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>11:15\u003C\u002Fstrong>  One day, I film myself doing these tasks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cspan class=\"lqip-wrap\" style=\"background-image:url("data:image\u002Fsvg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\u002F\u002Fwww.w3.org\u002F2000\u002Fsvg' viewBox='0 0 320 180'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\u002F%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\u002F%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\u002F%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\u002F%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\u002F%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\u002F%3E%3C\u002Ffilter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\u002Fwebp;base64,UklGRsIAAABXRUJQVlA4ILYAAADQBACdASogABIAPu1orE+ppiQiMBgIATAdiWUAAIeslQ184xsQ9Bbh65EsHne1AAD+yJLxdWXPxOx\u002FwymjnrEgAWV8Ies0+24dMDF7OrRC7+OSjjEm40slTrZLUmAdUxqyvZQ0yg43VnVBNJuTahi8VO1ZmcH5Eg10YrB+dx274k33Qi0f2TO4Pyu7SxyNzKNZqAS72Ye3rLTSHKWRzIX3JKUbW84oJ9aG5NVq\u002F2qP7eQNqAAAAA=='\u002F%3E%3C\u002Fsvg%3E")\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-householdtasks.jpg\" alt=\"Waiting Household Tasks\" class=\"lqip wp-image-599\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-householdtasks.jpg 1920w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-householdtasks-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-householdtasks-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-householdtasks-100x56.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>13:02 \u003C\u002Fstrong>Filming my routine feels important, as if I am transcending my situation in some way. I feel proud for a day. I tell myself that I am back to work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>09:30\u003C\u002Fstrong> The next day, however, I put off editing the footage. I put it off the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that. Days and weeks go by and the work of putting the film together hangs over me like a heavy, dirty, shameful blanket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>16:13\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I watch Chantal Akerman’s film \u003Cem>Sloth\u003C\u002Fem>. She made a film about being lazy, but in the end, she made it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>18:27\u003C\u002Fstrong>  Akerman says that in order to make cinema, one has to get up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>23:00 \u003C\u002Fstrong> I blame my laziness on my pain but deep inside I fear that it isn’t the pain that is blocking me. I fear that I am lazy just because. I wish I could cut my laziness out of myself like a tumor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>10:33\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I throw myself into more household tasks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>12:00\u003C\u002Fstrong>  Weeks go by. The household tasks give me the illusion of doing something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suffer. The video editing hangs over me each day. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I put it off, I put it off, I put it off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>14:07 \u003C\u002Fstrong> My home is spotless. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My video is unfinished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My pain is unprocessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>17:55 \u003C\u002Fstrong> My experience is undocumented, until I decide to take a break and go to the park and spontaneously write this all down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>19:02\u003C\u002Fstrong>  Satisfied, I go home and watch a short film called \u003Cem>Clotheslines\u003C\u002Fem> by Roberta Cantow. It is a film about women and laundry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>19:20 \u003C\u002Fstrong> The film is good so I stop watching it and invite my mother to come over and watch it with me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the women in the film says:\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>“\u003Cem>Women who don’t consider themselves artistic put a great deal of themselves into their household tasks\u003C\u002Fem>.”\u003Cspan id='easy-footnote-6-596'>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan class='easy-footnote'>\u003Csup id='easy-footnote-6-596' content='Director Roberta Cantow, \u003Cem>Clotheslines\u003C\u002Fem> (1981; New York: Buffalo Rose Production, 1981), DVD.' v-tippy='{ allowHTML: true }'>6\u003C\u002Fsup>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>21:10 \u003C\u002Fstrong> My mother loves the film. She often laments her inability to stop cleaning. Now that she lives alone, she would like to stop cleaning and do more pleasurable things, like painting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But she cannot begin until she has finished all of the tasks of the house. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And therefore she hasn’t begun in the last ten years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She does, however, write poems. She writes them in the hours which are off the clock: three, four am, five. In these hours the house lies in the dark. In these hours, domestic tasks are obscured by the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>22:10\u003C\u002Fstrong>  We talk about laundry. Since I am about to become a mother, I will therefore have to do a lot more of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>22:20 \u003C\u002Fstrong> I remember the linen closets of my grandmother: everything stacked in neat grids. And then I remember Hanne Darboven’s work: rows and rows of rectangular frames, also stacked in a satisfying grids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1968, she wrote: \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cem>Action interrupts contemplation, as the means of accepting something among many given alternatives, for accepting nothing becomes chaos. A system became necessary: how else could I in a concentrated way find something of interest which lends itself to continuation?\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cspan id='easy-footnote-7-596'>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan class='easy-footnote'>\u003Csup id='easy-footnote-7-596' content='Hanne Darboven, “Artists on Their Art,” \u003Cem>Art International 4 vol. XII\u003C\u002Fem>, 20 April 1968, p. 55.' v-tippy='{ allowHTML: true }'>7\u003C\u002Fsup>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>08:45\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I too want to stack everything neatly: my poems, my towels, my projects, my thoughts. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My own linen closet is psychotic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cspan class=\"lqip-wrap\" style=\"background-image:url("data:image\u002Fsvg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\u002F\u002Fwww.w3.org\u002F2000\u002Fsvg' viewBox='0 0 320 180'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\u002F%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\u002F%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\u002F%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\u002F%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\u002F%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\u002F%3E%3C\u002Ffilter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\u002Fwebp;base64,UklGRr4AAABXRUJQVlA4ILIAAABwBQCdASogABIAPu1srFEppaQiqAqpMB2JYwCo9DNaxUn4Dfaghypoaf1\u002FquORDTaclldgAP7TuBtvSZcoOMbBaHrhtWEjsowfaJ8W9BHEIRnKCK0End+CXx9vfmi+ydEF\u002F979V7TojHNCDIoj9TYmniUsJj3CfWE9uYQKcYnJTRPcDj2CvU\u002F+iJRBc2ygi2768iNS1O3YLIMVJz5F5IQ6Ctr\u002Ft4fTk9Xq76KejQ2wAAAA'\u002F%3E%3C\u002Fsvg%3E")\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-linen-web.jpg\" alt=\"Waiting Linen Closet\" class=\"lqip wp-image-598\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-linen-web.jpg 1920w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-linen-web-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-linen-web-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\u002F\u002Fcms.reissue.pub\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2021\u002F01\u002Fwaiting-linen-web-100x56.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>09:45\u003C\u002Fstrong>  I get caught up in the folding; I fold each thing just so, even when I promise myself to stop, even when I want to walk away, even when I want to do other things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>14:30\u003C\u002Fstrong>  Here is Kane, again: \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“\u003Cem>Please . . .\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>Money . . . \u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>Wife . . . \u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cem>Every act is a symbol\u003C\u002Fem>\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>the weight of which crushes me\u003C\u002Fem>”\u003Cspan id='easy-footnote-8-596'>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan class='easy-footnote'>\u003Csup id='easy-footnote-8-596' content='Sarah Kane, 4:48 Psychosis (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2000), 24.' v-tippy='{ allowHTML: true }'>8\u003C\u002Fsup>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>21:00\u003C\u002Fstrong> There is a sub-genre on YouTube of housewives who film themselves cleaning their houses, cooking for their families, tending to their gardens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before bed, I watch them cleaning their homes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, the housewives add little messages in the form of subtitles to their videos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight’s message:\u003Cbr>\u003Cem>There is a limit to completely removing the dirt. \u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I repeat this to myself, and I fall asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"easy-footnote-title\">\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Notes:\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Col class=\"easy-footnotes-wrapper\">\u003Cli class=\"easy-footnote-single\">\u003Cspan id=\"easy-footnote-bottom-1-596\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\">\u003C\u002Fspan>Director Chantal Akerman, \u003Cem>Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman\u003C\u002Fem> (1996; Paris: Cinéma, de notre temps, 1997), Documentary.\u003Ca class=\"easy-footnote-to-top\" href=\"#easy-footnote-1-596\" aria-label=\"Back to note 1 in the text\">\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli class=\"easy-footnote-single\">\u003Cspan id=\"easy-footnote-bottom-2-596\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\">\u003C\u002Fspan>Sarah Kane, \u003Cem>4:48 Psychosis \u003C\u002Fem>(London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2000), 28.\u003Ca class=\"easy-footnote-to-top\" href=\"#easy-footnote-2-596\" aria-label=\"Back to note 2 in the text\">\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli class=\"easy-footnote-single\">\u003Cspan id=\"easy-footnote-bottom-3-596\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\">\u003C\u002Fspan>Ibid, 23.\u003Ca class=\"easy-footnote-to-top\" href=\"#easy-footnote-3-596\" aria-label=\"Back to note 3 in the text\">\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli class=\"easy-footnote-single\">\u003Cspan id=\"easy-footnote-bottom-4-596\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\">\u003C\u002Fspan>Euripides, and Diane J. Rayor, \u003Cem>Euripides’ Medea: A New Translation\u003C\u002Fem> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 33.\u003Ca class=\"easy-footnote-to-top\" href=\"#easy-footnote-4-596\" aria-label=\"Back to note 4 in the text\">\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli class=\"easy-footnote-single\">\u003Cspan id=\"easy-footnote-bottom-5-596\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\">\u003C\u002Fspan>A message of consolation to you in the face of frustration,” video file, 9:14, YouTube, posted by Milanonna, March 13, 2020, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=iLn5m8i4kKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=iLn5m8i4kKw\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003Ca class=\"easy-footnote-to-top\" href=\"#easy-footnote-5-596\" aria-label=\"Back to note 5 in the text\">\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli class=\"easy-footnote-single\">\u003Cspan id=\"easy-footnote-bottom-6-596\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\">\u003C\u002Fspan>Director Roberta Cantow, \u003Cem>Clotheslines\u003C\u002Fem> (1981; New York: Buffalo Rose Production, 1981), DVD.\u003Ca class=\"easy-footnote-to-top\" href=\"#easy-footnote-6-596\" aria-label=\"Back to note 6 in the text\">\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli class=\"easy-footnote-single\">\u003Cspan id=\"easy-footnote-bottom-7-596\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\">\u003C\u002Fspan>Hanne Darboven, “Artists on Their Art,” \u003Cem>Art International 4 vol. XII\u003C\u002Fem>, 20 April 1968, p. 55.\u003Ca class=\"easy-footnote-to-top\" href=\"#easy-footnote-7-596\" aria-label=\"Back to note 7 in the text\">\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli class=\"easy-footnote-single\">\u003Cspan id=\"easy-footnote-bottom-8-596\" class=\"easy-footnote-margin-adjust\">\u003C\u002Fspan>Sarah Kane, 4:48 Psychosis (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2000), 24.\u003Ca class=\"easy-footnote-to-top\" href=\"#easy-footnote-8-596\" aria-label=\"Back to note 8 in the text\">\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Fol>","\u003Cp>\u003Cem>All images courtesy of the artist.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n",null,[33],{"id":26,"slug":28,"name":27,"firstName":34,"lastName":35,"bioHtml":36},"Anna","Zoria","\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Anna Zoria\u003C\u002Fstrong> (b. Russia, 1990) lives and works in Vancouver. She received her BA in History of Religion, Literature and the Arts at the University of British Columbia in 2013, and her MFA from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Beaux-Arts de Paris sculpture and installation prize. Her work has featured in numerous group exhibitions including \u003Cem>FELICITÀ 19 \u003C\u002Fem>(Palais des Etudes, Paris), \u003Cem>Waiting for the Sun\u003C\u002Fem> (The Wrong Biennial, Online), \u003Cem>Flower Power\u003C\u002Fem> (Hotel La Louisiane, Paris), \u003Cem>Nothing Happens \u002F Everything Matters\u003C\u002Fem> (11B, Paris), \u003Cem>Youngster \u003C\u002Fem>(Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris), and \u003Cem>Where is my house?\u003C\u002Fem> (Das Gift, Berlin). 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