The untranslatable a.pass: the politics of remaining

• “Do it into method!” Told me one of my mentors during my last block in a.pass, which was the fourth. After this intervention, TRT or Transversal Research Training emerged in May 2019. Although TRT was conceptualized not long ago, the content of what I wrote remains and guides my practice. And then, I realized that TRT is nothing “new”, it is the consequence of remaining and the trace of several enunciation try-outs.This text is focused on what I called the politics of remaining, and it is configurated by wondering: What remains there, in my/our/your/their practice to be conceptualized, to be enunciated? What does this remaining do? And what is the politics of that? In my experience, the politics of remaining that a.pass proposes are busy with discursive problems, dreams, nightmares, necessities and fantasies of artistic practices. The politics of remaining are entangled with a lot of “re”: re-mind, re-act, re-explain, re-expose, re-try, re-peat, re-taste, re-configurate, re-enchantment, re-fall-in-love, and so on. This is an erotic article about methodologies in artistic research and the act of gathering together, discussing a lot, sharing food and spaces and the most important thing: not-being friends.

Keyword

Artistic Research

Artistic practices

Konstnärliga praktiker

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kap (subject category)

kfu (subject category)