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(1) Not just spoken; (2) Reading the sky as a text; (3) An excessive amount of language; (4) Choppy waters; (5)

Talking together; (6) Changing from one day to another; (7) Alternative directions; (8)How; (9) What does it do;(10) Fade; (11) And open; (12) Textuality; (13) Conversational poetics; (14) Not wanting to relegate writing to the

status of a script; (15) Always a performance; (16) One way of thinking about it; (17)!"!#$%'!(%')!*&!%+,#-./0!!(18)

Pushing; (19) No comfortable or workable framework; (20) You may have already encountered this; (21) Things

get stuck; (22) Strictures and structures; (23) Thinking through; (24) Without recourse to these tracts; (25) What

would that critical index be?; (26) Collapse; (27) Over the coming days; (28) What are the discursive frames?;(29) The trap of the text; (30) This is not straightforward; (31) The danger of reductive effects; (32) Performative

or performic?; (33) On its own terms; (34) Dematerialized; (35) If it isnt carefully thought through; (36) Cross-

-+1!*23%.!(%')$0!(37) Extend beyond the page; (38) Shift away from; (39)Weighting (waiting?); (40) No particular

disciplinary allegiance; (41) When I speak like that; (42) A body doing something in front of people; (43) Both

performed and performing itself; (44) Capacity; (45) Slippages; (46) Is done or is doing something; (47) Actively

engaging; (48) An aperture; (49) Happening upon; (50) Falling; (51) More a range; (52) Chance encounters; (53)

Concerns emerging from within; (54) Suddenly and without warning; (55) Different affordances; (56) Remaining

unclear;(57)

Points of slippage;(58)

Pitched in thegap;(59)

How it could be made to shift;(60)

Pay attention;(61)

Along the margins; (62) Interludes; (63) Ambiguous or deliberately open; (64) Going all the way; (65) Never telling

a straight story; (66) A kind of clarity; (67) Being a stranger; (68) Listened to; (69) Beyond the determination of

4'.%4)/!)%(+%)!5.-2%.-40!(70)!6%/*+)!23%!.%453!4+)!'-7-242-*+$!*&!)%$-1+42%)!5*+(1#.42-*+$0!(71) Producing an

emergent form; (72) Loosely builds upon; (73) Compelled; (74) Between; (75) The very act of being together in

the same space; (76) The spectre of discipline looms large; (77) What it means to take part; (78) Translated; (79)

Shared; (80) Cannot be recognized; (81) Temporarily; (82) I am lost; (83) All at the same time; (84) An attempt to

capture the hesitation; (85) A series of prompts; (86) The tension between ideation and material realization; (87)

Witnessed; (88) Stake a further claim in the world; (89) Hopeful rather than assured; (90) Authorship and author-

ity; (91) Formations for rehearsing and testing; (92) Charged; (93) Connections and intensities; (94) Fleeting; (95)

Unlike more typical forms; (96) An opening; (97) To make vulnerable; (98) Experience which resists visualization;(99) A way of initiating; (100)!83%!)%24-'$!*& !93-53!34:%!+*2!/%2!;%%+!93*''/!)%(+%)0 (101) In a very immediate

way; (102) What do you think?; (103) A clue for her to follow; (104) A fragment of spoken text; (105) A certain kind

of license; (106) As an alternative to; (107) Unspoken; (108) To try to make sense of it; (109) Only in our collective

memory; (110) There is always something withheld; (111) Slackening the contours; (112) Engaged in the actual

space-time of its unfolding; (113) Operating within; (114) Permission; (115) Or else is lost; (116) Wholly undocu-

mented; (117)!"!,#4'-242-:%'/!)-&&%.%+2!7*)%0!(118) Gathering; (119) Assembled for a single event; (120) Always out

of grasp; (121) A state of yielding or of giving leave; (122) Delicately honed; (123) Capable of being rendered

plastic; (124) Appropriating the vocabulary and syntax; (125) Something incommunicable; (126) Through inven-

tion and improvisation; (127) Existing alongside; (128) How else might we relate?; (129) A whisper; (130)Whilst; (131)

Gently provoking or prompting; (132) A necessarily incomplete modeling or working-out; (133) We can have a

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(136) Its time to have a few traditions; (137) Too much to ask?; (138) This is just the beginning; (139) Put it

into practice; (140) Summing up; (141) And so on ... ; (142) Situated knowledge; (143) Related thinking; (144)

How to be more productive; (145) I dont know who will come; (146) Sometimes just in the asking; (147)

Text becomes a space; (148) Traces we create for knowledge; (149) During a long, rainy afternoon; (150)

Open; (151) Not closed; (152)Light; (153) Just a few words can make action happen; (154) You put something

out there and perhaps it comes back; (155) Utter; (156) To say something is to do something; (157) How to

handle this fundamental relation;(158)

It is hard work;(159)

How to stay in writing;(160)

Convincing;(161)

Contextual and materialized; (162) Mobile and changeable; (163)Just a way of hanging around; (164) Not

speaking, only gesturing; (165)!>*2!?+*9-+1!93%.%!23%!(+4'!)%$2-+42-*+!94$0!(166) Different kinds of

itineraries; (167) Sometimes; (168) Later on; (169) Little by little; (170) Asked to exchange something

precious; (171) To try to decipher it; (172) Their own narratives; (173) Synaptic confusions; (174) Gorgeous

convergences; (175) Enmeshings (176)!83-+1$!*&2%+!)*+@2!(20!(177) Can anything useful come from that?;(178) Allows for something else to happen; (179) A really fertile place; (180) Accidental before-hands; (181) A

particular set of histories; (182) What is seen can be heard better; (183) Urging (Urgent?); (184) The scope

and scape of things; (185) I cant put this into words; (186) Gut feelings; (187) Delving into; (188) Experiences

between us; (189) Gaps where language fails; (190) Fall through; (191) Less territorialized; (192) Tender

dialogue; (193) Make a mark; (194) Depending where you are; (195) The actual physicality; (196) Possible

dances between failure and poetics; (197) Understanding and misunderstanding happening at the same

time; (198) Mutable and plastic and ambivalent; (199) More intimately than that; (200) Utter

unknowingness; (201) Stepping; (202) Somewhere else again; (203) I am not sure; (204) A clue; (205) Ethical

and otherwise; (206) Living material; (207) Outpouring; (208) Bit by bit; (209) Scattershot; (210) Our silence is

not disinterested; (211) Itself made up of multiple spaces; (212)!A%1#'42*./!$9-.'$!4+)!B*9$0!(213) Bits of

language that enact; (214) Pause; (215) Contract; (216) They name; (217) All speech acts have a force; (218) A

Leverage; (219) Illocutionary; (220) Built into the fabric; (221) There is some left to rightness going on; (222)

This body falling; (223) Heave; (224) Label; (225) Not the same as a name; (226) It will always be a limiting

agent; (227) Which cannot be controlled; (228)!C2!54+!*+'/!'(''!$*!7#530!(229) Things happen; (230)

Cascades; (231) Outside of the text; (232) Going their own way; (233) Less authoritatively certain; (234)

Some direction to see it in a different way; (235) A matter of approach; (236) Nowhere yet; (237) Implies

relations between strangers; (238) I am a stranger here; (239) A void; (240) Avoid; (241) Way-markers for

the lost; (242) Words that wont go away; (243)Enough

(239)

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(244) It is an impossibility to translate; (245)A curious deconstruction;(246) Fragmentation; (247) Youll see

soon; (248) Not like I am talking now; (249)At one spot it was too thin; (250) Beneath the aesthetic self; (251)

Skin is the place; (252) How to write about now; (253)What would notbe physical?; (254) Bodily or

embodied; (255) Places leave traces; (256) Daily choreographic work; (257) Making recordings; (258) The

passing of time; (259) Stories; (260) Feeling discomfort; (261)What does not matter?; (262) No pain, no gain;(263) Is this too much to carry?; (264) Make space for something new; (265) Even during the dark of the

night; (266)Who are you following?; (267) Freedom, freedom, freedom; (268) Because you never know; (269)

One can talk to the dead too; (270) The points where we lost our place; (271)Well this is a place too; (272)

Particularity; (273) Stitching things together; (274) Planned in a sense; (275) Trying to translate; (276) Entities

that are different from one another; (277)And by their turning; (278)A preface to the unpronounced; (279)

Leads to the unknown; (280) Beyond temporal, spatial and conceptual coordinates; (281) The integrity of

unsettledness;(282) It always reached out; (283) Not present in itself; (284) Intentionally misleading; (285)

Something that may not be revealed; (286) Compensates; (287) 83%!(.$2!4+)!23%!'4$20!(288)We could still

talk about a beginning; (289) Traces of traces of traces; (290) Not present in itself; (291) Choreographies of

trying; (292) Dressed up as sentences;(294)And so on; (295) Between the banal and polished; (296) Its right

here; (297) It will come; (298) Like rings on water; (299) Can it generate more; (300) I am here and you are

there; (301) Not so much about history; (302) It is already; (303)All these things at the same time; (304)A verydifferent way of navigating; (305) Not a matter of compromise; (306) Laterality; (307) It is shifting; (308)We

have different positions; (309) Enthusiasm; (310) Initiated by doers and makers; (311) It is happening; (312)

There are other ways of speaking; (313) Pushing a bit; (314) Joking around; (315) There is a space for us to

take; (316) Cross, cut, diagonal or bended; (317) Facing preconceptions; (318)We are the ones that need to

do it; (319)We authorize ourselves; (320) C+B#%+5%0!(321) If we get sued we will burn the books; (322) These

texts are numerous; (323) Now the books have gone; (324) The graphic of absence; (325)Almost always

wiped out; (326)A cacophony of voices; (327) Said; (328)A way of undoing itself; (329) Belongs to everyone

and no one; (330)Was and am; (331) In a very open sense; (332) Performing its own means of production;(333) Resists being located; (334) Turned on its head; (335)An intense engagement; (336) To do with ones

way in the world; (337) Having ones hands tied; (338) Occupying islands; (339) Prowling around; (340)

Slightly wayward; (341) Taking the piss; (341) Confused by what was going on; (342)A little bit of L.S.D;(343) Very timbric, very rhythmic; (344) Returning; (345) Over a period; (346) The word; (347) Bubbling; (348)A

B#../!*&!#22%.4+5%$0!(349) Garbled; (350) Liberated into a poetic form; (351) Oracular; (352) Mistranslation;(353)

Endlessly dealing with that;(354)

Not always in a direct way;(355)

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(h) Johanna Hllsten; (i) Timo Heinonen; (j) Maija Hirvanen; (k) Regin Igloria; (l) Sonja Jokiniemi; (m)Jane Jin

Kaisen; (n) Sarah van Lamsweerde; (o) Larry Lynch; (p)Abinadi Meza; D,E!Mary Paterson; (r) Pilvi Porkola; (s)

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