Produced in tandem with a one-night-only performance at Iceberg Projects in Chicago, this collection of documents provides context and visual tools to elaborate on the performative aspects of the piece. Poetic prompts and verbose textual scores allow the participant or viewer to glean the significance of circumstantial space and dactylic presentation. The First Ritual Retreat on the Viability of Kidnapping is the realized multi-media project of two art collectives driven by anti-institutional sympathies and queer/other perspectives.

Mansion Rug Liberation Network, in their own words, is a “rug-based bristerhood using carpet samples, knives, and a greco-roman/ pinterest.com inspired tile inlay process to make moodboard target maps.”

Versus Versus, similarly, is “a burgeoning, underground organization for die-hard Queers with rock-hard, anti-domination politics. Queers who mean business about uprooting Business’s means! Queers who DEMAND the drastic rewiring of the social mind/body! Queers passionate about impassioning the masses to detonate their indifference to global power and oppression!”