[Reader-list] edited man

[Jeebesh]

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