The heaviest punishment that the old gods could bestow upon someone as strong as Atlas was to literally carry weight. Weight as in mass. Mass being the measure of matter. Matter being defined as the heaviness of things. In our society we often look as weight of an indicator of behavior, especially in relation to how fat someone is because of it. avoirdupois is a performative blend of movement, text and physical experimentation that queries the oversimplification of fat body and weight to expand the concept of weight as mass: its purpose in society, its function in relation to body, its imagery in rest, its societal mark as a burden of worldly troubles.