Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain

Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain is a vulnerable book about the quiet presence and hard looking needed to shift systems away from their oppressive, destructive realities.

''Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain by Meghan Moe Beitiks offers a profound exploration of pain as both individual experience and collective phenomenon. Through her artistic project "Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience," Beitiks demonstrates how healing transcends the self, requiring community and connection. The book beautifully documents her process of interviewing survivors of painful ordeals across multiple residencies, culminating in a powerful exhibition. With its focus on observation, description, and listening, this artist book reveals how accepting pain rather than fighting it can strengthen resilience and foster collective healing through artistic expression.''

TDR/TDR 68:1 (T261) 2024 https://doi.org/10.1017/S105420432300062X

Meghan Moe Beitiks is an artist working with associations and dissociations of culture/nature/structure. Her work has been published in Performance Philosophy , Performance Research , Journal for Artistic Research , Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts , and World Futures . The last chapter of her project A Lab for Apologies and Forgiveness is a book with Candor Arts. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Studio Art Lecturer at the University of Florida.