Session 6 (06-12)

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You started out with form. You ended up asking questions about content. These two can co-exist, of course, and maybe are even interdependent. — Were you pushed, hit, was it an accident? Did you trip over an object that lay on top of the staircase, did someone leave it there, while they were leaving the house in a rush for whatever reason? Really whatever reason - the reason is irrelevant.

You’re asking questions, but are you expecting answers?

If questions can be asked indefinitely, why ask them?

The researcher you met yesterday. They ask a lot of questions, for a living.

They find answers and move on.

Will you open the door for the Answer? Will you let them have a seat at the table? The long table. A lot of chairs like in the cinematic context, the way we started. Only this time the chairs are facing each other, instead of a screen. Only this time the chairs are not fixed. They can be moved and re-moved. If you don’t like to sit somewhere, you can switch places. Not only your body but the entire chair with your body on it. A lot of chairs like in the cinematic context, but these chairs are set up for a different purpose. Not to look at a moving image piece, but to look at another human’s face - a friend, an acquaintance. You’ll see their lips moving, their noses, eyebrows, the blinking of the eyes and maybe the twitching of some nerves. You’ll see them zone in and out of the conversation. You do the same. You see them sleep, eat, breathe and wonder about their thoughts. A riddle.

You wish the chairs would be like in the cinema.

To see some thoughts projected.

A riddle. A riddle told by the person sitting across from you.

by the projectionist.