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... to that hole, where our conversing is a pool of knowledge we like swimming in. Lets go for that whole where the entireness flows are floating within ourselves, blowing our egos and tying them together with coincidences. [we try to create a social environment that works with coincidences/arbitrarine ss/randomness AND come to a point of precise critiquality.] We try to create an economy of giving without taking and taking without asking, because giving is taking, and asking is the basic critical gesture - it is opening the field. The open field is the Metalogue - is the hole and the whole for swimming exercises. Lets go to our islands, we must start swimming. The pool is ours, in the sense of common ground; the islands is ours in terms of individual viewpoints floting in the common ground. We is the self that has to workout ration and relation between the pool and the islands. Swimming is an fucking exhausting workout. Negotiation is one of those techniques that helps solving problems, but it does not help to swimming. It is communication rescue. Swimming is exhausting, but not problem. It is conversation, dance, fail, edit, give. It is non-nego tiated collaboration.

Editorial This poster was produced in the course of a materialisation process of the a.pt workshop between 10.05 and 15.05 as part of the Bains connective residency project DIY. The poster functions as appendix to the Leakers workbook and as an invitation for the final editing session on may 26th 28th. It is not a coincidence that Joel inviting me to participate in my own project, while I invited him at exactly the same time for the exact same reason. At least, the content of our invitation letters was exactly totally not the same. This as well is not a coincidence. In contrast, our subsequent engagement in the project for witch we invited us mutually was full of coincidences. We could call

it provoked serendipity (why not surrendipity), or enforced coincidenting. But we call it with more tactical feelings: a Not-Negotiated Collaboration (NNC). The poster therefore is (or, would not have been) a result of a enforced failure to find what we wanted. Our goal was to hand over, to outsource, to disseminate this practice to others. But our engagement didnt last yet for more then sharing it with those others. Therefore I would like to invite you with this poster - which definitively represents a NNC - to join me at a table. This table doesnt exist yet; only, we are cooking already! Together with the rest of the 12 collaborators whove received a copy of the workbook we will build up the table - another table. The first table we built for a workshop with participants of the a.pass

artistic research environment in Antwerp. This table was based on The Leakers workbook, and lead into this folder/poster. We normally build tables through digesting, reading, transforming of our resources; the archive, the Verlegt Verlag, The Leakers, or this A0-concept. We thank the participans of the HP officejet 9130 Errors workshop of a.pass/a.pt (advanced performance training) and the Bains Connective, which made this residency possible. This poster was produced at the multidisciplinary laboratory Bains Connective, Bxl by Nicolas Y Galeazzi and Jol Verwimp for Thematics DIY 2010 with Heike Langsdorf , Elke Van Campenhout, Bavo Olbrechts, and NG. Project dramaturg by Lilia Mestre, Hosted by Micromarch. Special guest readers: Manuela Porceddu, Pilvi Porkola, David Helbich, Marthe van Dessel, Raphale Bidault-Waddington and the a.pass // a.pt (advanced performance training) participants Philippe Severyns, Michiel Reynaert, Adva Zakai, Abhilash Ningappa, Radical Hope, x and y

Not the purposive analysis-toward-action of instrumental reason: a hesitant self-definition in suspension. Not an extending out of matter into thought-substitution, nor a doubling of perception by thought: a folding of thought into matter, at a point of indistinguishability with perception. Matter self-perceiving, doubling itself with its variations.
Brain Massumi, Event Horizon, (1998)