I’m interested in how a person finds something out. As in: How do I find out about ____? How does knowing one thing lead to the another thing if I don’t know what the other thing is yet? How do I really get to new information? what are the apparatus that humans have always used? or more recently have created? what role do memory, association and language serve to connect what I know what what I don’t know? at what points do I learn something new? does breaking everything down and starting over always the way to new form?

What I understand, and think is very interesting: “absence shouldn’t be camouflaged” – non-participation is a statement, too – especially in terms of collective/collaboration as social experiment. This led us to the interesting conversation part about whether participation in projects is mandatory, how project proposals can be altered/discussed and so on.

Metahaven/Åbäke, two collectives mentioned as interesting research objects, particularly because how they’re opposites; MTHVN being two people appearing as one, while Åbäke doing a lot of different things/projects/expressions, more emphasizing on the individuals behind the group.

A pamphlet for the Serpentine Gallery Manifesto Marathon 2008:
1. The historic avant-gardes of the early 20th century and the neo-avant-gardes in the 1960s and 70s created a time of radical manifestos.
2. We now live in a time that is more atomised and has less cohesive artistic movements.
3. At this moment, there is a reconnection to the manifesto as a document of poetic and political intent.
4. This is a declaration of artistic will and new-found optimism.
5. New modes of publication and production are a means to distribute
in the form of texts, documents, and radical pamphlets.