Manifesto
I was thinking about form. Yesterday I browsed google for “design manifestos" – but I disagreed with the structures I found. For us, there are no five points, no ten principles, no singular act or project, no final result
absolutely, so much. This, this thing we create and the way in which we create it, is a conversation
it's the result of conversations, it is a manifestation of this rather than a manifesto –
of when people come together, communicate, exchange
which is evident even in the titles we've been drawn to – statements
that seek engagement, respons
fragments from conversations that prompt you to fill in the blank
yes, to respond. Not a soap box or a booming voice – but a quiet
corner, shared intimacy, creating instead of dividing a territory
but maybe we should focus on brevity and allusion – poetic, rather than clinical
an experiment, an accident, a work–in–progress never intent on finality
how can you exist if you are not moving?
this vehicle of yet–unformulated emotions and unrefined ideas
this unfamiliar form hewn by the fragmentation of our perspectives
show me where it never ends
or how it's shaped by the language that manifests between us
within us
unfinished, but present
present, yet built from our past
and it keeps breaking and mending each day together with all our securities
built from where we have been and where we are – shaped by situation,
speaking to the conditional localities we construct
shared states of mind
Through its nature
activated in relation, in discourse, in the call and response
of thought and action and conflict and collaboration
between media, between verbal and material expression
between real and imagined
seeking new relationships, new connections, new proximities
traces, carrying potential – lingering signs of past phenomenon,
initiating new occurrences
anarchival, anticipatory
iterating what is, what was
what could
or maybe should be
never contained, never singular, never simplistic
it should be positive – it should affirm, address what is
and project, address what should be
We need to
let's
dissolve restrictive concepts
break down
walls, barriers – all the interstitial, apathetic, unfeeling
to help us see
let us care
make us trust
but
tell me
how
just
TELL ME I EXIST
because
because when we speak, this becomes somewhere
this becomes real
and real means anything we
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