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Work hard. But not too late.

The situation is always right. If something bothers, find the source, act on it. Try something. Know your priorities. Listen. Observe. Be attentive. The situation provides for its own potential. Know your priorities. In case of emergency, shut up and observe. Rest also. Review your ambitions. Use what is at hand. Try something. Redefine your priorities.

We believe in everyone who is here, we believe in everyone who participates, we believe in not doing it all on our own, we believe in feedback loops, we believe in interferences, we believe in a back & forth movement between rational thinking and non-rational thinking, we believe in the efficacy of scattered thoughts as much as that of rigorous thoughts, we believe in skillful thinking, our ability to train and create our own logics, therefore creating our own ways of understanding the real, therefore creating the real for ourselves, therefore influencing other people’ stories of the real with our stories of the real, we believe in mirror neurones and their inability to make the difference between themselves and the other, we believe in skillful perception, our ability to train and create our own perceptions, therefore creating our own way of encountering the real, therefore creating the real for ourselves, therefore influencing other people’ stories of the real with our stories of the real, we believe that there exists no common sense which is really common, we believe in short-circuit, we believe in fiction, we believe in storytelling as a strategy through which our Reality emerges, we believe in performativity, we believe in placebo effect, we believe in artefacts and their power of federation, we believe that every detail is equally important and that every thing influences the whole, we believe in attention and observation, we believe in what doesn’t exist yet, we believe in what is slightly beyond our understanding, we believe in Unreality, we believe in the agency of ghosts, we believe in the virtual side of the coin, we believe in Schrödinger's cat, we believe in Quantum physics, we believe in infinite amounts of Dimensions, we believe in fractal geometry, we believe in organizational principles, we believe in ecosystems, we believe in Gregory Bateson, we believe in metalogues, we believe in Socrates’ maïeutics, we believe in the ingenue approach, we believe in asking questions, we believe in thinking outside the box while sitting in a box, we believe in a map with no edge, we believe in no ends, only means, we believe in a navigation from within, we believe in a choreography written from the inside, for the inside, we believe in a skillful curiosity, our ability to train and create our own ways to link what we know with what we don't, therefore creating our own way of encountering the real, therefore creating the real for ourselves, therefore influencing other people’ stories of the real with our stories of the real, we believe in paying attention, we believe in walking and talking slower, we believe in the sense of calm, we believe in details and their powerful agency, we believe in listening, and suspending our reactions for slightly longer than usual, we believe in incorporating, we believe in improvisation and in choreography as two points on the scale of having-a-plan, two shades of the activity of writing, we believe objectivity is a composition, we believe in ambiguity and its capacity to trigger, we believe in the regeneration of thoughts, we believe in modulable fragments, we believe in endless rearrangements, we believe in processes that produce eventhough they have no end.

Ordering is contingent. As such, we have to admit that it remains partly aleatory.

Work hard. But not too long.

Remember that you misunderstand understanding.

Faire ce qu'on dit.

Nous désirons travailler radicalement sur nos idées. Nous souhaitons des pensées claires, différenciées les unes des autres. Ensuite, Nous aimerions savoir traduire ces pensées en activités distinctes, des activités ouvertes dont le principe est clair mais dont on ne connait pas le résultat.

Nous voulons pouvoir tracer le parcours de nos choix et comparer les formes avec leurs intentions, par pure curiosité et pour le soucis de continuer de penser le lien entre ce qu’on veut et ce qu’on fait.

I am we.

I decided to not write in the first person anymore, it sounds too introspective and personal, I decided to write “we” instead, so to sound like already a big group of people are thinking along those lines. Boosting the credit a bit, as an experiment. To hear our own words as if they were the thoughts of others. We think that the ambiguïty over how many people speak gives a certain weight to whatever is proposed in the sentence. It will simply catch more attention to read a discourse that is already shared by many than the isolated voice of a single mind. We believe this ambiguous “we” is a powerfull placebo and we will test its force. In this way, the stories we tell also detach themselves from us and become slightly more available for the projections of the reader, more appropriable. We like that.

The functions are temporary. Full stop.

La fuite est une forme d'engagement. La fuite est toujours productive même si elle est toujours feinte ou vaine. Elle n'est pas absolue, c'est tout. Contrairement aux idées reçues, elle peut être très constructive. Surtout les fuites par le milieu lui-même. Nous disons ‘fuite’ en pensant ‘échappée’. Nous parlons ici de la fuite comme démarche émancipatoire. Il s'agit d'une fuite en avant plutôt que d'une retraite, suivant une logique analogue à celle de Steve Paxton dans son approche de la chute qui, par une légère anticipation et projection dans la dite chute, permet au tombant de regagner un certain contrôle sur son mouvement. Il existe une multitude de tactiques pour fuir en s'engageant au plus profond de la situation elle-même. L'imagination est une forme de fuite. Elle émancipe le sujet de la réalité qui l'entoure. Elle lui permet de s'en échapper pour y revenir de bon gré. La minutie est une autre forme de fuite. On peut fuir la vue d'ensemble en se concentrant sur ses détails. Les détails sont donc des sortes de portes intergalactiques, des trous noirs dont la singularité défie toute loi fondamentale.

Les morts font-ils encore partie de la catégorie dite des Humains? Les fantômes sont-ils humains? Que font les fantômes de nous? Peut-on se considerer savant si l’on n’y connait rien aux fantômes? Comment bien connaître? Que veut dire “bien connaitre”? Faut-il se tenir à la lisière de ce qu’on sait pour mieux connaître? Comment se tient-on à la lisière de ce qu’on sait? Comment pense-t-on en-dehors de la boîte dans laquelle on est assis?

Letter to my future colleagues: Can i scream and exhibit some leftovers of ideologies without falling in a typically bodyless speech act and become a ghost that cannot touch anyone? The need to act calls for articulating positions and wondering how to utter them otherly than in pure words. I hope our attempts, no matter how artistic, can stay closely connected to the socio-political context we inhabit. That we will try to keep the relevence rate of our questions very high, relevence in relation to many things and not only comply too quickly to a limited area of specialized interests, as if disconnected from the bigger picture. I wish that we always consider the studio or whatever material space we will work in as a part of the Bigger Space that we share with other people and that we fill with other activities. I hope we will not only promote change but already try it on ourselves. I hope we will have the patience to slow ourselves down and take the time to actually go through good ideas in practice, humble enough to accept to be the players of the game and not only the announcers. It is not a time for speech anymore, it is time to motivate action and the best way is to start it yourself. Don’t ask from someone else what you won’t do yourself. Spreading ideas is great; by talking AND doing. Our project is about shuffling the hierarchies of intelligences. Browsing through different fields of intelligence with less discrimination. It will demand patience, as I mentionned it above. Our project is about taking positions, even if those positions change and dissolve into new ones. The attempt of localizing yourself on the map is crucial. Unlocalizability is only cowardice disguised as Utopia. We need concret utopia, some attempts at specific hypothesis, detailed speculations. We need tatoos all over our bodies to affirm our mottos. We need to see with our own eyes what a new icon looks like. We can’t say more “no”s. Now we need “yes”es. Saying No isn't enough, so we must seek what we could say yes to. Enough dismantling, now we need federation, however temporary and local. New habits. Suitable obligations. We shall come up ourselves with the agreable ways to limit our freedom, enounce some rules we agree to obey to. We can change the rules when we need. We can disobey the rules that we cannot change. We need to write lots of texts, new wordily assemblages carrying ideas we care for, and then, wonder how we can turn those texts into enactments that will be encountered and tried by people who don’t read. There are too many good ideas on the pile of unread informations. Words must act. I hope we will remember to use all the resources we have individually. That we will start calling resources things that we didn’t before. Actually that we will keep on designing our specific dancerly activities while forgetting all Dance terminology and start importing and exporting words from their contexts. I hope we can federate other audiences by changing the name of what we do. I hope we can inspire butchers, knitters, chiefs of corporates, designers, politicians, clowns, mothers, dads, students, free-lancers, secretaries,… I hope we will collaborate with them, because in fact we already do. We need consequences. We shall try to generate them. Calmly hunt them.

Des structures qui rendent poreux sinon rien. Nous n’incarnerons que des structures qui génèrent en nous une certaine énergie. Nous n’avons que faire de formes inertes, contente d’elles-mêmes pour elles-mêmes, et qui s’imposent sans marge de négociation. Nous ne croyons plus en ce qui se prétend indispensable. L’indispensable sera nommé par nous et pour nous seul. L’indispensable n’est pas universel. La chorégraphie doit rester instrumentale à ce qu’elle rend possible. Ce qui nous importe, nous, sont les after-lives, les vies rendues possible par le biais des structures. Planifier, articuler, moduler, construire, faire des plans, non pas parce qu’ils sont beaux sur papier, mais parce qu’ils génèrent des mouvements qu'il nous plait de ressentir et d’habiter. Nous voulons concevoir des paires de lunettes qui font regarder le monde plutôt qu’elles mêmes.

About authorship. The only authorship which to us requires to be stressed today is the authorship over participation. I am the author of the way i engage with things. The acknowlegment of participation as a form of authorship is of prime importance in the debate about ethics in learning and creative processes. Participation, in any possible form, enhances the solidity of an initiative and therefore cannot be denied the status of constitutive element. There exist a large range of quality of participation nevertheless. How much does that matter in the global equasion remains questionable indeed.

All order is a form of fiction and derives from the exercise of some sort of pragmatic arbitrarity. order is a social construct aimed at enabling socialhood. In a very expended understanding of it, Order is the science of continuity: it is the art of connecting and gathering into a whole. Even when they manifest themselves by means of division, ordering systems still aim at providing a structure for gathering the parts. Typically, Order divides in order to reign.

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