Preface:
The following text is both a proposal for an event and a script for how the event will be introduced in physical space. It and the subsequent images are our proposition for the draft publication.
Speaker:
An event took place.
A situation occurred which found a collective group of people questioning their position in a flawed system. It took place in an environment where people are supposedly free to be creative, free to express themselves, and that in doing so they will be protected. Protected by walls, by an inferred bubble of inclusivity and acceptance.
Now, a group of people are gathered in a space. They will navigate that which arose proceeding the event and will navigate that which is to arise. The current speaker does not speak from a position of authority, particular status, or leadership. Instead, as someone familiar with, but with more to learn about, what has proceeded, and un-knowledgeable about what is to come.
The speaker outlines a proposed guiding structure of the conversation.
Ultimately the path is formed by the footsteps of the group. The loom will be a modular text. The fabric will be the way in which the group venture between these modules, cracking them open through questioning, tangential interjections, direct critique - and any other way that the assembled see fit to steer the conversation.
After each module has unravelled, a period for questioning can be opened up. It is possible that not all questions, if any, will be answerable. But, no question should be deemed unaskable.
At these points the group will have the opportunity to dictate the direction of the discussion, using a form of hyperlink to segue to the next module via keywords which extrapolate to other areas of the text.
Speaker:
Could someone clarify for me something about this situation? As far as I’m aware the subject matter was to deal with prohibition, correct? If so, then surely they have some complicity in this because when they get given something that is completely prohibited and they are suddenly shocked about that, its a bit like well what did you expect? There are certain people who want to be shocking, so when you get given something that is intentionally shocking and prohibited and you’ve created a platform for that what do you expect to happen, it’s just a bit like…?
Materials: Chairs, projector, audience
45
Sunday 20 May 2018
4-5pm
Conversation (In Progress):
Andrew Mallinson & Emma Clayton
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