Common Space in Time: The Presence of Absence

"When we remember, we are thinking of something that is not here..."
Sigmund Freud

It was approximately one year ago, in the summer of 2008, that the first action to be constituted under the name Common Space took place. In short (dis)order this flowed naturally into the events that took place under the auspice of Common Space: Gallery and Fakulta Solisarnosc.

CS:G curled three times around different houses and fell asleep. It has lain, dormant if not entirely at ease, since the last Prague event in the last days of last November.

Now, with various configurations of dust swept, settled, scattered or scorned, it seems appropriate to enact a rite of mourning for what was and to issue a call to arms for what can be. The social voodoo that has permeated this project means that it seems entirely possible, if not required, to both kill off the dead and summon new life with this one act.



And so I address you; to provoke new constellations in Common Spaces.