21 Adar II 5784
I'd like to start this brief entry, this return to the gently holding dreamscape that is this blog, with a query by author and poet Sophie Strand: "How can our pleasure, our vine-like questioning and probing of the system, begin to confuse the systems that constrict us?" In the art that follows, my fellow Riverdale comrade and deepest confidante, Nao, pushes Riverdale past its own limits into the realm of the conceptual. Into the visionary. Into a confusion of pleasure. What if?
Looking backwards, Nao asks: What if we got to observe Cheryl and Jason play duo tennis, just as they said they would? Looking forwards in a speculative manner, Naomi asks: If Riverdale had continued to this day, how might they have addressed the queer cultural phenomenon that is/was Rush by Troye Sivan? (Kevin doing poppers??!)
And me, I add a further question: if Riverdale had depicted the latter, how might this unprecedented representation have destabilized our understandings of capitalistic mass media? How might Riverdale have practiced unknowable, "confusing" subversion in ever-heightening, spiraling ways, if it had not been "concluded"? Nao's series of works asks all these questions and more, and posting it here is a reminder of our presence, as well as our continued, embodied theorizing towards the endlessness of Riverdale.
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