float. Pleasure is a three-hour durational performance installation by Marjani Forté-Saunders, accompanied by sound designer Everett Saunders. It unfolds as a slow choreography of memory, listening, and sensation. The work drifts through R&B classics once carried in the backseat of Saunders’ mother’s car, singing bowls that attune her present body, and prophetic texts that collapse ancestral memory with imagined futures. There is no fixed audience. Viewers are invited to enter, linger, wander, return, or simply pass through. Every arrival is an encounter. Every departure leaves a trace.
float. Pleasure refuses the urgency of spectacle and the expectation that Black embodiment must always perform its wounds. It is a discipline of tenderness, slowness, sensuality, joyful rigor, and straight up joy. In this enduring occurrence of sound, movement, space, and impermanence, pleasure becomes a way of knowing and a living archive through which Saunders re-members herself, into her future.
