Plattform: A conversation with P.Staff

Following Minimum World at Bergen Kunsthall, an evening celebrating the poetry of P. Staff, the artist talks about their practice in a Plattform talk. Irreversibility, gravity, and remaining hypersensitive after repeated exposure are some of the themes explored in this conversation, as the artist revisits past artworks and installations. The poetry collection Minimum World is co-published by Bierke Verlag and Bonner Kunstverein. This Plattform conversation is part of Another Sun, an evolving curatorial programme on the poetics and politics of the subsurface. BIOGRAPHY Through installation, video, sculpture, performance and poetry, P. Staff’s work explores the ways in which history, technology, capitalism and law transform the constitution of contemporary bodies, their tissues, their minds, and their social spheres. With a particular focus on desire, debility and dispossession, their practice mediates current biopolitical and necropolitical configurations through which bodies – especially those of people who are queer, trans, or disabled – are disciplined. Staff is based in Los Angeles and London, and is represented by gallery Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Galerie Sultana, Paris.