Susan Wolf, will be in the Annex with Slowly Moving With a Burden Bent, a participatory performance. The artist's body carries conversational prompts in an exaggerated backpack, stops to rest, using the Annex as a home to document changes over time while inviting others to join in a graceful dialogue held by three gestures: Tearing, Twisting and Anchoring a length of fiber to text. The emergent poetic response begins with conversations and the materials for cross stitching text onto canvas sacks. Each text sleeve becomes a carrier of meaning and curiosity, enabling relationships while crafting stories. Over time, the gestures and encounters held by the fibers result in a collective word poem. At the end of the residency the materials will be carefully deconstructed and untangled to be read aloud, printed and passed along. Finally, fragments and pieces are reloaded into the backpack and slowly carried away until a future time and place.