2025 - 2026 FACTORY student led: A Factory on Weight

I am curious to host a space where we practice lifting and being lifted by each other.

We will approach this practice as technique, as performative action, and as a way of noticing the personal, cultural, social, and political questions that arise in the context of this act.

I am looking to critique and expand the lists below. 

We live in cultures that:

• equate lightness with value and heaviness with shame

• reward independence and treat needing support as weakness

• gender strength and softness

• make care labor invisible

• teach us to minimize the space we take up

• ???

Can we rehearse another way of being together? 

A way where:

• weight is shared, not hidden

• support does not reduce freedom

• being held does not mean being less

• nobody has to pretend to be lighter than they are

• ???
  

Practical:
Wear clothes you can move and rest in.
Bring water.

*** (side note) In Danish, the word “lift” means “ride.” 

“hej du der! - kan jeg få et lift?”

“hello you! - can i get a ride?”

I like to think about “lifts” as a ride through space on the surface of another body —

not being taken up, but being taken along.