A repertoire of anticipation

In thinking about (digital) stasis-anticipation-as-movement, I’ve been reflecting on what it means to attend to the feeling of perpetual uncertainty and anticipation — does this mean capturing it? Recreating it? Sitting in the embodied sensation? My micro-residency cohort-mates have noted that to attempt to recreate it, or anticipate the anticipation is to undo/unmake/transform the sensation.

So I’m still not sure what it means to attend to these moments and feelings, but I thought we could collectively and informally make a collection/repertoire of anticipation. I use the word “repertoire” to invoke the embodied, ephemeral nature of these moments, more fully described by Diana Taylor as the following:

The repertoire, on the other hand, enacts embodied memory: performances, gestures, orality, movement, dance, singing—in short, all those acts usually thought of as ephemeral, nonreproducible knowledge. Repertoire, etymologically “a treasury, an inventory,” also allows for individual agency, referring also to “the finder, discoverer,” and meaning “to find out.” The repertoire requires presence: people participate in the production and reproduction of knowledge by “being there,” being a part of the transmission. As opposed to the supposedly stable objects in the archive, the actions that are the repertoire do not remain the same. The repertoire both keeps and transforms choreographies of meaning...Embodied memory, because it is live, exceeds the archive’s ability to capture it. (The Archive and the Repertoire, 20)

Please add moments/reflections/quotes that you feel gesture around this notion of anticipation-as-movement (there are no wrong answers)!

Where stillness culminates, there is movement - Trinh T. Minh Ha, When the Moon Waxes Red

“...anticipating texts to be delivered/read (indicated by delivery progress bars and read receipts), waiting for texts to be received (indicated by the [...] of people typing), videos to buffer, Zoom calls to connect, and the awkward negotiation of overlapped talking/who gets to talk next on calls.” (designspace submission)