Why We Gotta Be Fightin?

• Posters: signed print on 11"x17" glossy 100 lb. cardstock, shipped in a plastic bag with cardboard backing. 2012-04-12 The Parish (Austin, TX) for MiHKAL, Knowa Knowone, Soundshaman, 2012-04-13 Ruta Maya (Austin, TX) for ONE4ALL, Soundshaman, Matthew Ian Blagg, Miss Zap, and 2012-04-16 Ruta Maya (Austin, TX) for Esoteric Mondays. This one was named inadvertently by my friend Chris Morphis, who came up to me at a show and captioned, "I thought we were dancin'; why we gotta be fightin'?"  That pretty much sums up the emotional energy behind this piece – the dyad, the dance, the lovers, tangled, polar, divided but united, evoking each other even when apart, the boundaries tidal, orbital, co-imbricated. One of the most important things I learned in school for evolutionary biology is that what we call competition is equally true as cooperation from a different angle.  Predator and prey, host and parasite, victim and abuser, artist and audience – these are timeless pairings that require bo