Performance and Anti-performance
Critiquing Two Performances of Domestic Political Violence vs. Resistance As Counter-narrative Performative Intervention to Cruelty
“Collateral Damage” Aviva Rahmani September 2025
In this essay, I will sometimes refer to the current President of the United States as t.
Evgenia Emets of Eternal Forest recently described this series of articles as, "contemplative essays about how art mirrors and inspires life." In this essay, I will consider the current experience of t.’s administration as real life theater..
The premise of this essay is that we are witnessing two simultaneous performances. One performance is represented by this presidential administration. The other is led by a team of resistors. As in any good avante garde performance…