Tension Studies by Indira Allegra

In Tension Studies, a domme's client becomes a lover and a lover becomes a client but it is a relationship with a weaver's wooden loom which is the most intimate of them all. Through the frame of the loom, tension lines trembling between human and nonhuman experience interlock to reveal a text/ile dense with phenomenologies of longing, touch, and the dangers of encounter.  Commissioned by The Lab, San Francisco, with funding from the Gerbode Foundation and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation with additional support by DisArt. Praise for Tension Studies “Between the inanimate and the fleshly: wood and thread, muscle and bone . . . desire and the intellect: one body, and another’s . . . a text to read slowly, appreciatively, and with loving care.” —Glenn Adamson, curator, writer, and historian “Themes of intimacy, power, chronic illness, and currencies spiral through Tension Studies in a striking and unexpectedly beautiful coil.” —Amber Dawn, Lambda Literary Award winner and author of My Art I