Pause the Document is a pause, or a complete rupture, in the workings of Mónica de la Torre’s poetic and political work. We’re asked to consider the documentation of our lives—whether through language, memory, time—and the dissonance in that documentation. The result is a complete paradigmatic break; Pause the Document points us towards other forms of movement (choreographies of words, absences) and meaning-making.  Her conversation is with language and its limits, illness and survival, at once playful and profound—all the while speaking to the intimacies that abound in any interaction with the world around us. She expands on those themes,…

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