Description (Re)Surface: A Poetics of Fish/Flesh is a ‘body drama,’ a form of expression that incorporates poetry, prostheses, gesture, and jazz that cleaves a critical site/space for exploring questions of blackness and being. Playwright isaiah a. hines of Burlington, VT, draws upon his conception of the ‘choreopoem’ and ‘a poetic imperative’. In this solo performance piece he considers the black queer disabled existence. He thinks through the dramas of mundane life using notions of embodiment, agency, madness, speech, refusal, refuge, and unfreedom. "(Re)Surface functions as a living-moving cartography, attempting to map the oscillating processes of making and unmaking my Self—fleshing out the rituals of dis/embodiment thru movements that both counter-invest in the black queer body as a site of possibility and gesture toward more ethical and pleasurable modes of being in and with the world," says hines. born & raised in Vermont, isaiah’s work has a particular investment in the Black outdoors, black environmentalisms, geographies and ecologies; an effort at rhapsodizing the monumentality of everyday black rural life. 2/7/20