Excerpt from Femme Fabrications, 2016

Note from the Editors: Joseph Noonan-Ganley was a part of the initial discussions that led to OAR and to the concept of Issue Zero as a series of responses. We wanted to draw his ideas back into the Issue in the form of a response to it as a whole. In this excerpt from a larger body of work, various connections might be drawn to Adrian Rifkin’s lecture, particularly to his mode of unfolding research as a series of incomplete offerings, as well as to his interest in using fragments (such as a phrase or a sentence) as a mechanism for setting out. Offering his own fragment, which touches on the tenuous nature of gift giving, Noonan-Ganley suggests a mode of responding that might be fragile, partial and parallel rather than reactionary.