[Reader-list] edited man

[yasir ~يا سر]

is there a link to the image of the figure. or do we just figure that.

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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:
>
> We found the seated figure of a man in somebody's storage space. We
> found him sitting and with what sees to us to be like a startled look
> on his face. We have been wondering what would it mean to work towards
> him acquire a life, a philosophy, tastes, passions, a repertoire of
> sentiments, a list of favourite books, songs, movies and secret
> desires, ever since we found him
>
> We invite you to look carefully at his image, and respond, with a
> brief text, anything from an epigram to a paragraph or a page, or a
> series drawings, or an essay, or a fiction, or an idea for an art
> work, or a story, or a poem, or a song, or a quote, or an anecdote, or
> a travel dairy notation, or a bibliography, or a joke, or another
> image, or a reference to other works, or all of the above or something
> else.
>
> You could even make a list of provisions that you think he might need,
> books and texts you might want him to read, music that you might want
> him to listen to, or things that you might want him to take along as
> he makes his way in the world. You can also choose to respond in a
> completely tangential and oblique way, if you so wish, bypassing our
> sense of who he is, and communicating directly with the figure and
> what he represents to you.
>
> We would like to gather your responses into a book that we want to
> make as an accompaniment to the work that we will produce in the
> autumn this year.
>
> Please send us your response by 31st July.
>
> Warm greetings
>
> Raqs Media Collective
> June, 2009
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