Excerpt from text being read during performance while it was also being shredded and fed to the worms:

'I imagine the compost worms immersing themselves in some of our works by queer artists whose practices are also distinguished by a sensibility to nature’s cycles, like

worms crawl in a specific muscular contraction and relaxation (peristalsis). I imagine some of them venturing into the living room and being drawn to a photograph by Zafira Vrba Woodski from the Pronoun series, showing the artist in meditative connection with different landscapes. In this particular piece, Shingle is my pronoun, she lies with her body face down onto the small beach rocks with arms bent and elbows pointing up, like insect legs or wings. Maybe a metamorphosis is happening? Another work in the still ongoing series is called Earth is my pronoun and here her body is stretched out on the grass wrapped up – almost worm-like – in a multicolored quilt surrounded by monumental graves. Here, the artist’s body seems to be inviting a decomposting process. Transformation and death are core to Zafira Vrba Woodski’s practice. “Death is part of being trans” as she states in relation to the performance and video work Death is my pronoun. As means of healing she has developed a queer “contemporary archeology” that seeks to transfer experiences from the past to future trans communities. Another way of thinking backwards, recycling, in order to imagine a radically different world.'

Text by Louise Wolthers

Drawing by MC Coble

'Decomposing' was a performance made specifically for the release of the book 'The Exposed Eye #2' (Helga Härenstam and Anna Strand). The performance was based on the contribution that Louise Wolthers and MC Coble collaborated on for this publication.