Infinite Becoming & The Collective Nest
Limbo Festival
July 5–7, 2024
Towards Re-embodying Equality: Infinite Becoming & The Collective Nest are the newest iterations of Goldman’s project Disentanglement/Re-embodiment, an evolving, multipart and ambitious attempt to disentangle the bonds of gender-based oppression and imagine a re-embodied self, unencumbered by patriarchal power and domination.
The Collective Nest incorporates actions during which Goldman and dancer choreographer Roxanne Steinberg turn to the communal nesting practices of birds. While at the Limbo Festival, they will gather twigs and branches to create a large collective nest, culminating in a live performance. Through her alliance with non-human animals, the artist engenders a new set of possibilities to subvert patriarchal and neo-liberal conceptions of work, private property, individualism, competition and the nuclear family—all forces that serve to prop up gender-based oppression and capitalist exploitation. The Collective Nest destabilizes those hierarchical structures and points to a new egalitarian ecology of collective care, shared resources and mutual support.
