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Baylisascaris devosi(roundworm)Inscrutably, actually: hospitality, parasitism, and the silent work of Yoko Ono and Laurel Nakadate
(Vivian L. Huang)
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https://www.womenandperformance.org/bonus-articles-1/huang-28-3
(..)"Asian performance of feminist parasitism insists upon relationality by performing it,
allowing for the distance necessary for such relationality to take shape.
The impossibility of its observation highlights the interruptive work of viewing.
Looking at their performances of hospitality side by side, I suggest that, with Ono and Nakadate, the viewer’s involvement holds the viewer accountable for the staged encounter as well and welcomes the possibility for spectatorial resistance.
The parasite needs the host/guest in some sense, but it should not be forgotten that the host/guest needs the parasite for evidence of its own existence. More, the host/guest is also always already a parasite, in the position to interrupt. If you have a parasite, you are a part of history, you are witnessed.."(..)
