The focus of 'Every Day Words Disappear' is on imagining a workable future that goes against the doom and gloom we are fed every day in the media. A pressing question here is how we share the political and social possibilities of our fragile biotope, where the future seems to be mortgaged to a multinational 'corporatocracy' that has narrowed our social imagination with drastic consequences for our living environment at both the global and local levels. There is a need for a different narrative in which participation is paramount, what essayist Rebecca Solnit calls the 'duty of delight': we need to discover better metaphors with unexpected vocabulary for the delight of 'untold stories'. More fundamental questions are needed to imagine the wondrous possibilities for the appalling reality we face.
'Every Day Words Disappear' explores new concepts about who we are and how we live together through a series of dialogues with contemporary thinkers: it is a quest for the possibility of redefining our ontology in the challenges of our contemporary biotope. Through a series of in-depth interviews with leading thinkers, each from their own discipline, the story we paint for ourselves as a picture of reality is reimagined. The starting point was an interview with political philosopher Michael Hardt on 'language and the commons'. In a second section, neuroscientist Raymond Tallis talks about tickling in relation to 'consciousness' and what this can tell us about how we exist in the world as social beings.
In a parallel track, these conversations are tested against practical examples compiled in an online database or vlog on 'the commons'. Lectures and workshops serve as test cases to break open this new theme and form an essential dialogue in the creative process to further expand the image and text archive.
