Jas Lin
2:30pm, The Beach at Fishermen’s Path
queerness is not yet here, 2025
kinetic poem
30 minutes

Music and sound by: OHYUNG
Writing collaborator: Jenevieve Ting

“everyday, i reach for the ocean / and she reaches back for me” – jas lin

Evoking José Esteban Muñoz’s opening line of Cruising Utopia, Jas Lin invites Fire Island to orient toward the horizon beyond the island’s surfaces, enclosures, flags, and boardwalks. Lin utilizes the treadmill to chase the ecstasy of a runner’s high– stepping out of straight, linear time to draw new desire lines that lead us beyond the confines of the beaten path. In an increasingly surveilled world that even surveils the way we walk, this performance serves as a practice ground for rehearsing possibility while evading legibility. If ekstasis– the Greek root of ecstasy– means to stand outside of oneself, it also gestures toward stepping into the infinite potential of becoming. Dancing on the shoreline, how can we embody the horizon, one step after the other? 

Credits

Nir Aireli: Photography

Faris Al-Shathir: BOFFO Executive & Artistic Director, Founder

Liam Burke: Videographer

Candystore: BOFFO Senior Development Manager

Sydney Fishman: BOFFO Programs Manager, Curator

Free Radical Design Group: Producers

Benett Holgerson: Videographer

Moses Leonardo: BOFFO Development & Communications Associate

Lucas Ondak: BOFFO Residency Manager, Curator

PORTO ROCHA: Graphic Design

Joey Sweeny: BOFFO Production Associate

Vidoun: Public Relations