What does it mean to be yourself inside the world? Is living one’s story really actually a stable act of passing through time? And, what if the inherent instability of being alive instead provided a sense of comfort or meaning? In this spoken word performance piece, Australian writer, performer and artist Rosie Shute reads a 10-15 minute memoir monologue that traces their life backwards from 27 to 0 years old and, in doing so, explores how the thousands of undetectable earthquakes the world experiences every day live inside of one’s journey learning how to be themselves. Whilst performing this monologue, Rosie will be smashing plates onto the ground, abruptly and volatilely embodying the idea that groundedness comes from allowing oneself to shatter.