Breaching Tool No. 6: Harp Harnesses

performative garment
photographed by Shauna Caldwell
2022

In Harp Harnesses, we search for poses in which the strings of this wearable instrument have enough tension to make sound. We strain against them as they pull us towards each other. We must be rigid (like the body of an instrument), and balanced. Attempting to hold ourselves firm is a struggle as our soft bodies breathe and shift and tire under the tension. The sound is modulated by our imbalance, our softness, our yielding.