This summer, My Summit Is Out of Reach will be presented for the second time. The audience is limited to 50 people, and spots are available on a first-come-first-serve basis. The works consists of 13 discrete parts that you will receive via USPS, and is available on a sliding scale of $250 - $500 dollars

To join the audience and begin the work, you can purchase the prologue here for $25 (shipping included). The prologue will be mailed at the beginning of July 2025. Upon receipt of the prologue, you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not you want to officially proceed with My Summit Is Out of Reach, which requires signing an agreement and an additional payment (made via Zelle or Venmo) to receive the next 6 parts via USPS.

At the time of the work’s midpoint, Interlude, you will again have the opportunity to decide whether or not you would like to continue with the work. If you choose to continue with My Summit Is Out of Reach and the remaining 6 parts, a final payment is due at this time.

As part of this unique experience, the audience keeps eleven 19 in. × 27 in. (unfolded)—or 6.75 × 9.5 (folded)—two dimensional works consisting of photography and text, along with an editioned 5” × 7” silver gelatin print.

The 13 parts of My Summit Is Out of Reach are organized thus:

1) Prologue

Winter

2) Part 1: Ascend

3) Part 2: Dive

4) Part 3: Suspend

5) Part 4: Revert

6) Part 5: Descend

7) Interlude

Non Winter

8) Part 6: Ascend

9) Part 7: Dive

10) Part 8: Suspend

11) Part 9: Revert

12) Part 10: Descend

13) Epilogue

MORE INFO ABOUT THE WORK

My Summit Is Out of Reach is the third work in a series of “performances arranged for print." Conceived by Matty Davis in 2021, these works represent a new form for performance to inhabit, to be experienced, and to be understood. Pushing beyond the bounds of traditional live work, in which audience and performer intimately share time and space, Davis transforms the core principles of performance, distilling them into the materiality of the page, and synthesizes choreography, writing, photography, and design, to create dynamic and utterly original performances intended for print. 

My Summit Is Out of Reach is a 13-part work that is mailed to its audience via USPS over an unspecified amount of time, shaped according to the work’s real-time production. Each part contains various combinations of original texts, silver gelatin prints, and other materials that layer and build meaning over time. As these parts slowly unfold, the audience follows Matty Davis as he searches numerous mountain ranges in the United States for “the surface and the slope,” a concept that describes a set of conditions that allow a specific dance to occur. The pursuit of the dance itself - up, down, and across various mountains, as well as other kinds of terrain - thrusts the performer into intractable relation with other species, ecosystems, histories, and senses of time and scale that induce reckonings with our own bodies and place in the world.