RUINS PART I: redux. realms. regards. is a 3-hour performative encounter between Liz Rosenfeld
and an*dre neely, which follows their continuous collaboration entitled “RUINS” — an open and multidisciplinary project which combines research, film, performance and writing to explore the
collapse in queer political and social resistance. This new iteration, expanded from PART I, will focus
on the choreographic language of the Handshake, highlighting how, historically, queer persons
found affinity and built non-verbal discourses, referencing cruising stories and bodily codifications
essential for the relations of desire.
The handshake appeals to secretive forces, in a broad analysis and a counter position to the
position of Visibility = Liberation which queer rights and social movements in general seem to have accepted uncritically. In this manner, these choreographies of handshakes are constructed
through the scores we develop with other queer people, performing them between us, as conduits
for muites corpes, thereby exploring the power of transference between bodies that depend on
others.