“drag your body into the sunlight / dig a hole and bury yourself in it”

Delivered via distorted and whispering proxy, Walden sends a biocentric message from the swamp: “take a lower kind of view / spend some time with the bugs in the dirt baths.” The artist’s instructions show how we might be more queerly in touch with our bodies and environments, opening up new points of connection to the more-than-human world.

Artists-in-Presidents: Transmissions to Power is a polyvocal art project initiated by Constance Hockaday that takes up and subverts the model of the Presidential Address or Transmission to the Nation. The Blackwood has commissioned 21 artists, thinkers, performers, and writers to create audio addresses that perform power in new and different ways, and together compose a rousing collection of imaginative proposals for the leadership we need in this moment of global crisis and possibility.