east window SOUTH
Boulder CO
7 April 2022

Directed, performed,
and edited by
Emji Saint Spero

Day Six. 11:06pm. features an excerpt from disgust. This video-poem was released as part of UNHEALTHY PRACTICES: a show of disgust, an international group exhibit at east window SOUTH, curated by Todd Edward Herman.

The works in this exhibit explore issues of bodily function, ownership, control, choice or lack thereof. grappling with violated physical and social borders and hierarchies; the violation of gender boundaries and fluidity; notions of contagion, purity, wellness, disease and how such constructs may be used to ostracize unwanted members of various social groups.

UNHEALTHY PRACTICES asks, What do these representations of our bodies, belongings and psyches, seen through the lens of disgust, really mean to us, that we should impose such powerful and dangerous abstractions upon them? What roles can disgust play in re-shaping other less negative social interactions and in constructing social values that are in turn supportive of those interactions?