As a filmmaker, installation artist, and poet, P. Staff draws from a wide-ranging assortment of inspirations, materials, and settings, of which recent examples include Achille Mbembeâs theory of necropolitics, affect theory, the transpoetics of writers such as Che Gossett and Eva Hayward, as well as their own studies in modern dance, astrology, and end of life care. In Staffâs interdisciplinary practice, these varying threads serve to emphasise the processes by which bodies â especially those of people who are queer, trans, or disabled â are interpreted, regulated, and disciplined in a rigorously controlled society.
