Image of monitor on low boy stand with a brown leather corseted Mies van der Rohe chair. The legs of the chair curve outwards like wheels. The freeze frame on the monitor displays an empty white bed with yellow subtitles that read: "with a fist raise

Offerings to Bob Flanagan interrogates pain as an endurance performance, incessant conjuring, and connective tissue as both subject and witness. Shot from the perspective of the bedroom, the video proposes the sick bed as a horizon both spatially and temporally, calling upon Tala Khanmalek and Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes’s proposition of “bedlife.” The video project spans across one year from November 8th 2021 to November 2nd 2022, collecting a year of pain journals, memory recollections, and confessions that mirror Bob Flanagan’s 1995 Pain Journals. The project summons Bob Flanagan as an art historical reference and ghostly figure in conversation with artists and theorists such as Johanna Hedva, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha, Jasbir Puar, & C. Riley Snorton. Offerings to Bob Flanagan investigates the prospect of witnessing by centering stamina as an embodied condition of spectatorship. Through the video’s multiple timelines, the piece becomes spatially transportive across future/past/present through crip time and flare time, while exemplifying the unspeakable conditions of pain as a corporeal sensation and affective memory. Time stamped image descriptions are available online as well.

Running Time: 1 hour 1 minute 7 seconds

Image of monitor on lowboy stand. The monitor displays an empty bed with a heating pad, two pillows, and a green blanket. The yellow subtitles read: "How I am overworking myself like a rabbit running in circles because the pain pills"