Corner of 89th Street and 3rd Avenue, NYC, January 25, 2012

It’s ’round midnight and I am out walking my mobile phone as I receive confirmation from Galya Benarieh-Ruffer, Director of the Center for Forced Migration at Northwestern University that I have been accepted as an affiliate member of the Center. I will be leading a class on Human Rights and Performance Art in July as part of their summer institute as well as contributing research on creating an interactive digital archive on testimony for the Center. It is a necessary pleasure to be able to exchange ideas and insights with someone with whom there is no need to remain on tip of the iceberg speaking terms. I make for the park on 88th where I practice pirouettes as we continue to set out our ideas, as the neutrinos step aside as we compare observations of the mind-altering effects of technology on legal scholarship. I pull up a collar as I let a man, who bows his head beneath a hooded sweatshirt as he unlocks the back door of a car within which he will spend another night, go.

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