Practicing Discomfort in the Studio: So We Can Get Ready for the Revolution Outside

thoughts on sensation and the fringe

Many of us do not get to experience pleasure enough. During an age when pleasure mostly belongs to the bourgeois, pleasure, in and of itself, can feel like a revolutionary act. That said, pleasure is not a prerequisite for a task or project to be worthwhile. And we don’t always know when pleasure will strike.

We tend to fall into binary thinking. It is e…