Diane Exavier
Each Body Is (Still) a Miracle, 2017–19
Printed text, folded printed paper booklets, eucalyptus and workshop activation
14 pages at 8.5 x 11 inches each
Paper booklet 4.5 x 2.74 inches (folded)
Commissioned by the 2019 NLE Curatorial Lab
In (after)care, writer and theatremaker Diane Exavier continues the ongoing exploration of health and wellness in East Flatbush that she began in 2017. Through a three-part project celebrating practices of local vibrancy, Each Body Is (Still) a Miracle contains the essay Adelva Called Adela, which unfolds across the hallway; the takeaway booklet By Numbers By Miracles; and a meditative exercise in commitment in the workshop Petit Plasaj. Investigating care for histories, selves, families, and neighbors, this work evolves from Exavier’s urgent questions of how to survive in a rapidly changing neighborhood. Through the voices and bodies of those pushed to the margins, Exavier’s work seeks to share something with the neighborhood that has provided her creative inspiration.
