Life Cycle of a Common Weed:
Reciprocity, Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Noncatharsis (2009)

This document is a condensation of research into an artistic practice of transaction and dialogue. Through the staging of an artwork, I offer encounters with fractured biopolitics and forms of social engagement. Written in three parts, this document may be read as separate yet interdependent components of a distributed narrative.

Order of Things

Introduction, xi
Life Cycle of a Common Weed, 1
Reciprocity, anxiety & the aesthetics of noncatharsis, 15
Contagion / Cultivation
Matter Out of Place
Anxiety as a Political Tactic
Reciprocity and Alliance
From Embodiment to Evaporation, 59