Working with Element X Energy

Embodying a Destabilizing Love

Cornelia Parker, Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson), 1999. Charcoal, wire, pins, and nails; 144 × 60 x 72 inches. Photo by Jasmine Fu. Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson) is also the cover art of Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Her scholarship on “wake work” has come to inform much of my theorizing on “element X work”.