#schildersstraat

“To think with an enlarged mentality means one trains one’s imagination to go visiting.” Hannah Arendt in Donna Haraway Staying with the Trouble, 2016, p126

“Interesting research is research conducted under conditions that make beings interesting” Vinciane Despret in Donna Haraway ‘Staying with the Trouble, 2016, p126

“Despret’s cultivation of politeness is a curious practice. She trains her whole being, not just her imagination, in Arendt’s words, “to go visiting”. Visiting is not an easy practice; it demands the ability to find others actively interesting, even or especially others most people already claim to know all too completely, to ask questions that ones interlocuters truly find interesting, to cultivate the wild virtue of curiousity, to retune ones ability to sense and respond and to do all this politely! What is this politeness? It sounds more than a little risky. Curiosity always leads its practitioners a bit too far off the path and that way lie stories.” Staying with the Trouble, Donna Haraway, P127

Went for a walk. Found a typewriter on a wall. Came home, found two baby tomatoes and a baby pumpkin.

Fertile moment to start writing again after a long wet sleeping season.

“Topologocal spaces and the crisscross of gazes are found, for instance, in the symmetry of mirror images and in the placement of images inside other images. Dimensions that are usually kept separate in our common experience can merge through the contamination of space and time and ultimately between the realms of the living and the dead.”

“Topology allows for linking near and far, up with down, in with out, in a paradoxical continuous space most easily- understood by the classic example of the Möbius strip. Furthermore, topology underlines a reader-response theory. In a participatory paradigm, the artwork often unfolds in real-time, and the viewer-reader must complete the work’s meaning. As the boundaries between art’s inside and outside become less clear, meaning and authorship become more collective and distributed. In a participatory paradigm, for instance, completeness is no longer possible, desirable, or taken for granted.”