&Now 2015: Blast Radius

"Bad boundaries”: they’re symptomatic of immaturity, personality disorder, neediness, and/or lesbianism. While certain kinds of boundary-crossing (i.e., the blurring of gender binaries, the hybridizing of genre categories) are celebrated in queer and innovative art and writing circles, it seems even--maybe especially--those of us most invested in these kinds of boundary refusals are at the same time concerned with maintaining healthy relationship boundaries and solid ethics on issues of privacy and consent. The writers and artists on this panel steal and collage, breach and blur, queer. We also, though, have suspect ethics: we divulge secrets from others’ private lives, forge inappropriate  intimacies, and force audiences to be complicit in our messy feelings. But inherent in our bad boundaries, we hope, is potential for collaboration and connection, for a devaluation of the discrete subject and an embrace of overlap, multiplicity, and exchange. 

Five signs that you might have bad boundaries: 
1. You, like Dodie Bellamy, find yourself adopting the/an unlocatable first person voice. 
2. You, like Stephen van Dyck, swap tales of financial and emotional woe with customer service agents over the phone and secretly air them on the radio. 
3. You, like Sam Cohen, hate the idea of survival of the fittest enough to form a collaborative, interspecies theory of evolution. 
4. You, like Megan Milks, itch for a parasitic aesthetics with political and erotic potential. 
5. You, like Matias Viegener, obsess over the encroaching drone invasion, but secretly long to be one.