Five Years Publications no.8 vol1-3 Being Together...

Being Together is not Enough. Vol. 1.
Five Years Publications: Public Series no. 8. vols. 1-3.
ISBN 9781903724187

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How and why do groups organise themselves? Must we? Or rather. How and why must we organise ourselves? What we? The we that has no part. In participation. What does this mean? To ‘deal in the promise of groups and togetherness’. Not the we’re-all-in-this-together. But the contention that this wrong exactly marks our disagreement. ‘How to live together’? Here’s an idea. Don’t. Call the police. At stake. A subtraction. Both potential and problematics. A radical democracy. Being placed together and in-common. A nothing in common. The we without. Speech. Voice. Forming a declaration of wants, desires, intended acts, political claims. Etc. Attempting. A community of equals. A do-good bunch. Our naïveté. Calling. By any means necessary. A possible and fragmentary plurality. A potentially egalitarian collectivity. Working and unworking a contested common ground. Calling for what. What’s ‘our research’? A freedom of assembly. Free association as the precondition of politics itself. A performative exercise. In actu. Call the police! A joint enterprise at play. In struggle. Enough. Who we? We Them. We popular politics risking ever-denounced so-called populism. Not to be found. A fragile collectivity. What post-utopia happiness. Our militancy. Our insurgency-at-work. Drawing out. Precariously demonstrating. Other ways of speaking. Fearlessly. Enacting in horizontal-connection. The articulations of self-designation. Self-constitution. In resistance. Solidarity. Our so-called critical models. Or perhaps simply. Just what is it to participate and to have a common interaction with others? Please. We call on you.

Authors All Proposals (1-43) with documentary images (colour)
Copyright Authors, Five Years (Standard Copyright Licence)

1._Bill Leslie, Jo Addison, Anna Lucas: What Happens Between Us?| 2._Anna Chiandet, Tom Nicholson, Jane Englefield and Katy Beinart: Being Together Is Not Enough| 3._Lara Buffard & Gur Arie Piepskovitz: How to Redeem Yourself with 7 Deadly Sins? | 4._Latinos Creative Society: Manifesto Declaration | 5._DROSS: Strategies For Facilitating Artwork During Wagework #1 Remote Relay [Walkie-Talkie] | 6._Christian Newby: Textiles of Categorical Will | 7._Ladies of the Press* CULTURAL CAPITAL SCAM. is not enough. | 8._LJA Brown & Tom Loffill: The Gloomy Day | 9._Eduard M-Balash: Anybody’s Community| 10._Steve and Samantha: | 11._Kylie Chung and Jody Granger: Projections and Representations Of The Body | 12._Kim Wan and Annie Morris:Games and Learning | 13._Ram Samocha:Act & Talk - A Drawing Performance Conversation with Ram Samocha | 14._Morgan Joseph Hamilton: Retroscope2000®| 15._Esi Eshun: Bad Poets| 16._Aimee Hornby: Collective Clay| 17._Lucia Farinati: From transcription to transduction: The voice of Joseph Beuys in Audio Arts (revisited) | 18._Edward Dorrian & Nela Milic: Assembly/ Drawing Models| 19._Graduate Monthly: Rehearsal for a Conversation| 20._Lily Morgan: From You to Me to Line to Form| 21._Juan Crespo: E 51°33’57.8”N 0°07’57.5”W Minorities Time Capsule| 22._Phil Dobson & Ducan McAfee: What is Done Cannot be Undone| 23._YVP Collective: YVP Happening #3 | 24._James Hutchinson, Tamara Shaw, Areti Chatzipavlou and H&M: All Plastic Bags Are Art| 25._Emily Scarrott: Bag for Life| 26._Emma Clayton & Andrew Mallinson: Conversation (In Progress)| 27._Flavia Tritto: Nice to meet you. I am_____ | 28._Rosie Woodhouse & Andrew Wyatt: Niteflights| 29._Ceyda Oskay: INK, Inc: Pasajist /with Henry Nicholson: Viola Thompson - A Visit to Viola’s Home and Studio. Ways of Collaborating.| 30._Joe Walsh:When Queen says funky she says it as fungi| 31._Michael Curran: Fuck the Clock| 32._Erika Hodges: A New Insurgent Writing | 33._Kit Powell & Lorna Ough: Help. I Don’t Know What I’m Doing.| 34._Tail Bend Travel (Sophie Mak-Schram & Ruben Green): A European We| 35._Minchae Kim, Mijung Park & Lara Mi: Meanwhile | 36._Patrick Loan: ‘Bicycle, bicycle, I want to ride my bicycle...’ | 37._Andrew Cooper & Eric Ogbogbo: LINE IN THE SAND. | 38._Protest Press: Aoife O’Doherty, Grace Lister, Sarah Houghton, Millie Tyler, Scarlett Chetwin | 39._Emma Balkind & Edward Dorrian:Nothing in Common? | 40._Timber & Battery (Rohanne Udall and Paul Hughes):No Matter | 41._David Goldenberg: New moment in History | 42._Lena Heubusch: None of the Above | 43._We Are...? Glap Collective: John Hughes, Liz Murray, Simon Rattigan and Mia Taylor

Being Together is Not Enough
Events /Publication Project
Five Years Publications: Public Series No:8

From a free and open-call for proposals.
All proposals accepted.

Part 1.
12-27 May 2018
Five Years, London

Part 2.
Participants have been invited to freely develop their proposal and event to form part of a three volume publication (2020)

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5 -13 October 2019
Five Years was open for events/general discussion of participating contributors to the project and publication.
This offered opportunity for participants to proof the draft publication. A performative exercise.

Saturday 5 October 2019
12-1 pm Latinos Creative Society: Manifesto
5-6pm Lucia Farinati
From transcription to transduction: the voice of Joseph Beuys in Audio Arts (revisited),
a live audio essay performed by Lucia Farinati.
Sunday 6 October 2019
3-4pm Patrick Loan: Bryan Parsons and Oliver Cloke: The Hour (Record)
Sunday 13 October 2019
3-4 pm Esi Eshun: Bad Poets. A performance lecture.
4-6 pm How and why do groups organise themselves? Must we? Or rather.
How and why must we organise ourselves? Roundtable Discussion: Edward Dorrian with Esi Eshun