· If you think of a direction, would the future be behind or in front of you? 

In sign languages with a European origin, the past is behind the body and the future in front, but in others, like the Urubu-Ka’apor sign language in Brazil, it’s the other way around. Here, the past is considered something visible and in sight, while the future is unknown and therefore, out of sight. 

· Now, think of your favorite season. Would you choose one from four or more seasons a year?

Raffia Li grew up with 24 seasons a year and their favorite season is Guyu - Grain Rain. The saying of this season is: The rain gives birth to all grains. 

“When I think of time I think about the river near my grandmother Qin’s yard. It stretches in my body like an infinite embrace. A 7-day / 24-hour regulation of time disorients my body, because it pretends to be existing without relating to my body, or any body. So I search elsewhere, search for other times, with other bodies, where time doesn’t exist, or the idea of time gets challenged on a daily basis.

A capitalist ableist time is productive and efficient, only to its own system, only to the privileged, only offering limited access, limited resources, limited languages and therefore limiting imagination. 

Performances always work with time, and I want to work with it in relation to the body, to the disabled, queer, body of color, whose relation with time have been more complex and almost too complex to describe and still resisting in being described. There are no languages that can be clear enough to contain these bodies and their positioning and relation with time. So we tilt towards the poetics of the body, a remix of time. 

Try to think of a touch from which you are certain that time doesn’t exist. And I will meet you there.”