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<span class="NNP">Undecidability</span> <span class="NNP">Silvia</span> <span class="NNP">Bottiroli</span> <span class="VBG">Multiplying</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">Visible</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">word</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="VBZ">appears</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Six</span> <span class="NNP">Memos</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">Next</span> <span class="NNP">Millennium</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="VBN">written</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="NNP">Italo</span> <span class="NNP">Calvino</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="CD">1985</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="PRP$">his</span> <span class="NNP">Charles</span> <span class="NNP">Eliot</span> <span class="NNP">Norton</span> <span class="NN">poetry</span> <span class="NNS">lectures</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="NNP">Harvard</span> <span class="NNP">University</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">last</span> <span class="NNS">months</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">his</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="NNP">Calvino</span> <span class="VBD">worked</span> <span class="RB">feverishly</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">lectures</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="VBD">died</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">process</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="CD">five</span> <span class="NNS">memos</span> <span class="PRP">he</span> <span class="VBD">left</span> <span class="RB">behind</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">he</span> <span class="VBD">did</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="RB">only</span> <span class="VB">open</span> <span class="RP">up</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="NNS">values</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">future</span> <span class="NN">millennium</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">come</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="VBD">seemed</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">envision</span> <span class="NN">future</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">darkness</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">withholds</span> <span class="JJ">many</span> <span class="NNS">forms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">visibility</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Calvino</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="VBD">s</span> <span class="JJ">fourth</span> <span class="NN">memo</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="CD">1</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Visibility</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">revolves</span> <span class="IN">around</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">capacity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">literature</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">generate</span> <span class="NNS">images</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">create</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">kind</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">“</span> <span class="JJ">mental</span> <span class="NN">cinema</span> <span class="NN">”</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="NNS">fantasies</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">flow</span> <span class="RB">continuously</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Calvino</span> <span class="VBZ">focuses</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">imagination</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NN">“</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">repertory</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="WP">what</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">potential</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="WP">what</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">hypothetical</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="WP">what</span> <span class="VBZ">does</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">exist</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">has</span> <span class="RB">never</span> <span class="VBN">existed</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">perhaps</span> <span class="MD">will</span> <span class="RB">never</span> <span class="VB">exist</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="MD">might</span> <span class="VB">have</span> <span class="VBN">existed.</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="$">[</span> <span class="CD">2</span> <span class="IN">]</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="JJ">main</span> <span class="NN">concern</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP">he</span> <span class="VBZ">brings</span> <span class="NN">forth</span> <span class="NNS">lies</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">relation</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="JJ">contemporary</span> <span class="NN">culture</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">imagination</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">risk</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="RB">definitely</span> <span class="VB">lose</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">overproduction</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">images</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">power</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">bringing</span> <span class="NNS">visions</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="NN">focus</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PRP$">our</span> <span class="NNS">eyes</span> <span class="VBN">shut</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">fact</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">“</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="VBG">thinking</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NNS">terms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">images.</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="CD">3</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">last</span> <span class="NNS">pages</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">lecture</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">he</span> <span class="VBZ">proposes</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">shift</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="VBG">understanding</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">fantastic</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">artist</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">indefinable</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">With</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">word</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Calvino</span> <span class="VBZ">means</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">define</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">coexistence</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">relation</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="DT">any</span> <span class="JJ">literary</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="CD">three</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">dimensions</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="JJ">first</span> <span class="NN">dimension</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">artist</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="VBZ">s</span> <span class="NN">imagination</span> <span class="IN">–</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">potentialities</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="DT">no</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="MD">will</span> <span class="VB">succeed</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="VBG">realizing</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="JJ">second</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">reality</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="VBP">experience</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">living</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Finally</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">third</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">actual</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBN">made</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">layers</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">signs</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">accumulate</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="VBN">compared</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">first</span> <span class="CD">two</span> <span class="NNS">worlds</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="NNP">“</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="RB">infinite</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="JJR">more</span> <span class="RB">easily</span> <span class="VBN">controlled</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RBR">less</span> <span class="JJ">refractory</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">formulation.</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="CD">4</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="PRP">He</span> <span class="VBZ">calls</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">link</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="CD">three</span> <span class="NNS">worlds</span> <span class="VBD">“</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">paradox</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">infinite</span> <span class="NN">whole</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="VBZ">contains</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="JJ">infinite</span> <span class="NN">wholes.</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="CD">5</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="IN">For</span> <span class="NNP">Calvino</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">artistic</span> <span class="NNS">operations</span> <span class="VBP">involve</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">means</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">infinity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">linguistic</span> <span class="NNS">possibilities</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">infinity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">artist</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NN">s</span> <span class="NN">imagination</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">infinity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">contingencies</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Therefore</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">“</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNS">attempts</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">escape</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">vortex</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">multiplicity</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">useless.</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="CD">6</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="PRP$">his</span> <span class="JJ">fifth</span> <span class="NN">memo</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">he</span> <span class="RB">subsequently</span> <span class="VBZ">focuses</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NN">multiplicity</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">way</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="NN">literature</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">comprehend</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">complex</span> <span class="NN">nature</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">author</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">whole</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">wholes</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">acts</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">watching</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBG">knowing</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="NN">intervene</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">observed</span> <span class="NN">reality</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">alter</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Calvino</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">particularly</span> <span class="VBN">fascinated</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="JJ">literary</span> <span class="NNS">works</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">built</span> <span class="IN">upon</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">combinatory</span> <span class="NN">logic</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">readable</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">narratives</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">lecture</span> <span class="VBZ">revolves</span> <span class="IN">around</span> <span class="DT">some</span> <span class="NNS">novels</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">contain</span> <span class="JJ">multiple</span> <span class="NNS">worlds</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">make</span> <span class="NN">space</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">readers</span> <span class="VBP">’</span> <span class="NNS">imaginations</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="JJ">common</span> <span class="NN">source</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="PDT">all</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">experiments</span> <span class="VBZ">seems</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">rely</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">understanding</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">contemporary</span> <span class="NN">novel</span> <span class="NN">“</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">encyclopedia</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">method</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">knowledge</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">above</span> <span class="DT">all</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">network</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">connections</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">events</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">people</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">things</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">world.</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="CD">7</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="NNP">Therefore</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VB">let</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="VB">s</span> <span class="VBP">think</span> <span class="NN">visibility</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">multiplicity</span> <span class="RB">together</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">multiplication</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">visibilities</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="NNS">traits</span> <span class="JJ">specific</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="JJ">artistic</span> <span class="NN">production</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">define</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">context</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="RB">rather</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="NN">undecidability</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">quality</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">Calvino</span> <span class="VBZ">seems</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">suggest</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="NN">literature</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="CD">8</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="RB">particularly</span> <span class="JJ">productive</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">futures</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">if</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">makes</span> <span class="PRP">itself</span> <span class="JJ">visible</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">multiple</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="WDT">Which</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">say</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">if</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">doesn</span> <span class="JJ">’</span> <span class="NNS">t</span> <span class="VBP">give</span> <span class="RP">up</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="VBG">involving</span> <span class="RB">radically</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">realities</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">operation</span> <span class="NNS">modes</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">doesn</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NN">t</span> <span class="VBD">fade</span> <span class="RP">out</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">scene</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="JJ">real</span> <span class="JJ">’</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">We</span> <span class="MD">might</span> <span class="VB">stretch</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">line</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">thought</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">bit</span> <span class="JJ">further</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">propose</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NN">s</span> <span class="NN">potentiality</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">multiplying</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">visible</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">actual</span> <span class="NN">counterstrategy</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">proliferation</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">images</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">surrounds</span> <span class="PRP">us</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">A</span> <span class="NN">strategy</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">capable</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">producing</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">conditions</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">visibility</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBG">Embracing</span> <span class="WP">what</span> <span class="PRP">we</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">capable</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">see</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="VBP">think</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBP">imagine</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">fantasise</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">conceptualise</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBG">bringing</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">configurations</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">public</span> <span class="NNS">spaces</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">collective</span> <span class="NNS">subjectivities</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">social</span> <span class="NNS">gatherings</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Actual</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNP">Potential</span> <span class="NNP">Worlds</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="NN">fact</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">undecidability</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">specific</span> <span class="NN">force</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="RB">consciously</span> <span class="VBZ">articulates</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">redefines</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VBZ">alters</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">complex</span> <span class="NN">system</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">links</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">bounds</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">resonances</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NN">potential</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">actual</span> <span class="NNS">worlds</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">sense</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">undecidability</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">quality</span> <span class="NN">specific</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">some</span> <span class="NNS">artworks</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="CD">three</span> <span class="NNS">worlds</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="NNP">Calvino</span> <span class="VBZ">describes</span> <span class="NN">meet</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="VB">remain</span> <span class="JJ">untouched</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">autonomous</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">recognizable</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">An</span> <span class="NN">artwork</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="RB">indeed</span> <span class="VB">create</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">magnetic</span> <span class="NN">field</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="JJ">actual</span> <span class="NNS">worlds</span> <span class="NN">coexist</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">living</span> <span class="JJ">next</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">each</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VBG">sharing</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">common</span> <span class="NN">horizon</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VB">generate</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">potential</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Then</span> <span class="VBZ">‘</span> <span class="JJ">potential</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="VBZ">does</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">mean</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="NN">possible.</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="NN">fact</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">if</span> <span class="NN">something</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">possible</span> <span class="WRB">when</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">contains</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">under</span> <span class="JJ">certain</span> <span class="NNS">terms</span> <span class="VBP">performs</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">possibility</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">actualisation</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">potential</span> <span class="WRB">when</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">maintain</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">potentiality</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">never</span> <span class="VB">actualize</span> <span class="PRP">itself</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="CD">one</span> <span class="JJ">actual</span> <span class="NN">form</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="JJ">particular</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">potentiality</span> <span class="VBN">generated</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class="NNS">artworks</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">grounded</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">logic</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">addition</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">contradiction</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">specific</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">A</span> <span class="NN">logic</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="NN">and…</span> <span class="NN">and…</span> <span class="NN">and…</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NN">opposite</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">logic</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="FW">either…</span> <span class="NN">or…</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">seems</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">rule</span> <span class="NN">reality</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNS">Artworks</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="NNS">places</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="NN">contradictory</span> <span class="NNS">realities</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">coexist</span> <span class="IN">without</span> <span class="VBG">withdrawing</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VBG">cancelling</span> <span class="DT">each</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="RP">out</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="NNS">sites</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">experience</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="NNS">images</span> <span class="VBP">let</span> <span class="VB">go</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">representational</span> <span class="NN">nature</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">just</span> <span class="VB">exist</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">such</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">None</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">images</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">artwork</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="RBR">more</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="JJR">less</span> <span class="JJ">real</span> <span class="IN">than</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">others</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">no</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="IN">whether</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">come</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NNS">pieces</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">reality</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="NNS">products</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">individual</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="JJ">collective</span> <span class="NNS">fantasies</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">such</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="VBZ">creates</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">ground</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="PDT">all</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">images</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">come</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="NN">visibility</span> <span class="NN">share</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">same</span> <span class="NN">gradient</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">reality</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">no</span> <span class="NN">matter</span> <span class="IN">whether</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">harmoniously</span> <span class="JJ">coexist</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">radically</span> <span class="VBG">conflicting</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">If</span> <span class="DT">every</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="VBZ">builds</span> <span class="RP">up</span> <span class="JJ">complete</span> <span class="NNS">systems</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">offered</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NNS">visitors</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NNS">spectators</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">enter</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="IN">if</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">invitation</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">often</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">losing</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">contact</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="JJ">known</span> <span class="NNS">worlds</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">order</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">slip</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="NNS">others</span> <span class="VBP">–</span> <span class="NN">something</span> <span class="RB">radically</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">happens</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="NNS">practices</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">undecidability</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Here</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">spectators</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">invited</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">enter</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="VBD">s</span> <span class="JJ">fictional</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="VBG">carrying</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PRP">themselves</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">so-called</span> <span class="JJ">real</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">all</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="JJ">fictional</span> <span class="NNS">worlds</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">space</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">created</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="PDT">all</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">worlds</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">equally</span> <span class="VBN">welcomed</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">artwork</span> <span class="MD">may</span> <span class="RB">then</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">navigated</span> <span class="DT">either</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="RB">only</span> <span class="VBG">choosing</span> <span class="CD">one</span> <span class="NN">layer</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">reality</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="RB">continuously</span> <span class="VBG">stepping</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="CD">one</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">another</span> <span class="JJ">–</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">dimensions</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">made</span> <span class="JJ">available</span> <span class="IN">without</span> <span class="DT">any</span> <span class="NN">form</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">hierarchy</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VBN">predicted</span> <span class="NNS">relations</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Such</span> <span class="NNS">dynamics</span> <span class="VBZ">seems</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">occur</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">performative</span> <span class="NNS">works</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">particular</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">contemporaneity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">production</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">consumption</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">experience</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">typical</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">performance</span> <span class="NNS">intensifies</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">possibility</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class="NNS">links</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">realities</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Moreover</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">live</span> <span class="NNS">arts</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">curatorial</span> <span class="NN">context</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">normally</span> <span class="JJ">visible</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="RB">well</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">provides</span> <span class="CD">one</span> <span class="JJR">more</span> <span class="NN">layer</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">framing</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VBG">mediating</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VB">Azdora</span> <span class="DT">A</span> <span class="JJ">good</span> <span class="NN">example</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class="NN">artwork</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="NNP">Markus</span> <span class="NNP">Öhrn</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="VBD">s</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Azdora</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">long-term</span> <span class="NN">project</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBD">was</span> <span class="VBN">initiated</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBN">coproduced</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="NNP">Santarcangelo</span> <span class="NNP">Festival</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="CD">2015</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">As</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">festival</span> <span class="JJ">artistic</span> <span class="NN">director</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">that</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class="PRP">I</span> <span class="VBD">had</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">chance</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">follow</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">support</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">project</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="VBD">was</span> <span class="VBN">triggered</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">encounter</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">artist</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NNP">Santarcangelo</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">research</span> <span class="NN">residency</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">feminine</span> <span class="NN">condition</span> <span class="NN">present</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">traditional</span> <span class="NN">family</span> <span class="NNS">structures</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">region</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Italy</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="JJ">particular</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="WP">what</span> <span class="VBD">struck</span> <span class="PRP">him</span> <span class="VBD">was</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">figure</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="NN">azdora</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VB">’</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">dialect</span> <span class="NN">word</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">means</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NN">holder</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">house</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">family</span> <span class="VBZ">–</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">woman</span> <span class="WP">who</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">charge</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">domestic</span> <span class="NN">life</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">labours</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">care</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">This</span> <span class="NN">figure</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">same</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class="JJ">powerful</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">subordinate</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="VBD">repressed</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="IN">through</span> <span class="PRP$">her</span> <span class="NN">devotion</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">she</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">sacrificed</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">family</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">care</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">relationships</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">keep</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="RB">together</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Interested</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="VBG">investigating</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="JJ">feminine</span> <span class="NN">figure</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">possibility</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">suggests</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">matriarchal</span> <span class="JJ">societal</span> <span class="NN">structure</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">artist</span> <span class="VBD">made</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">call</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="NN">‘</span> <span class="NNS">azdoras</span> <span class="VBP">’</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">work</span> <span class="RB">together</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PRP">him</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">creation</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">series</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">rituals</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">later</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">concert</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CC">Both</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">rituals</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">concert</span> <span class="NN">revolve</span> <span class="IN">around</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">possibility</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">emancipation</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">exploration</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">wild</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="JJ">destructive</span> <span class="NN">side</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">figure</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Azdora</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Twenty-eight</span> <span class="NNS">women</span> <span class="VBN">committed</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">long-term</span> <span class="NN">project</span> <span class="RB">together</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="NNP">Markus</span> <span class="NNP">Öhrn</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBD">dived</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="PRP$">his</span> <span class="NN">imagery</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">artistic</span> <span class="NN">world</span> <span class="VBN">made</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">diverse</span> <span class="NNS">ingredients</span> <span class="IN">among</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBD">were</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">tattoo</span> <span class="NN">culture</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">cult</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">bodybuilding</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">noise</span> <span class="NN">music</span> <span class="NN">practice</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">At</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">same</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="NNS">azdoras</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="VBD">were</span> <span class="VBN">asked</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">bring</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="NNS">ingredients</span> <span class=":">;</span> <span class="NNS">imageries</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">concerns</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">desires</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Together</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">artist</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">female</span> <span class="NN">musician</span> <span class=".">?</span> <span class="NNP">Alos</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">mediation</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">festival</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBD">embarked</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">adventure</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="VBG">entering</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">place</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBD">did</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">exist</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">creating</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">new</span> <span class="NN">set</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">rules</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">behaviours</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="PRP">themselves</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">spectators</span> <span class="WP">who</span> <span class="MD">would</span> <span class="RB">eventually</span> <span class="VB">join</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">rituals</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBP">attend</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">noise</span> <span class="NN">concert</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VB">bump</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">interventions</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">public</span> <span class="NN">space</span> <span class="IN">during</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">festival</span> <span class="NN">period</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Similar</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="JJ">artistic</span> <span class="NNS">projects</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="CD">one</span> <span class="MD">could</span> <span class="VB">trace</span> <span class="RB">back</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">practice</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">undecidability</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBP">[</span> <span class="JJ">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Azdora</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNS">mingles</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">realities</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">fantastic</span> <span class="NNS">worlds</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="VBZ">activates</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">participatory</span> <span class="NN">dynamic</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="VBG">preserving</span> <span class="IN">“</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">grey</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="JJ">artistic</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">participatory</span> <span class="JJ">art.</span> <span class="NNP">”</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="CD">9</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="NNS">words</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">creates</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">protects</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">space</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">indeterminacy</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">In</span> <span class="NN">fact</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Azdora</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">same</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">performative</span> <span class="NN">picture</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">artistic</span> <span class="NN">fantasy</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">community</span> <span class="NN">theatre</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">emancipatory</span> <span class="NN">process</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">ongoing</span> <span class="NN">workshop</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">social</span> <span class="NN">ritual</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">concert</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Furthermore</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">project</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">documentary</span> <span class="NN">movie</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">sociological</span> <span class="NN">survey</span> <span class="VBP">have</span> <span class="VBN">been</span> <span class="VBN">produced</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="CD">10</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBG">multiplying</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">possibility</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="NN">access</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">angles</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">via</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">formats</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">If</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">coexistence</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">media</span> <span class="RB">already</span> <span class="VBZ">implies</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">angles</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">durations</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">discourses</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">forms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">spectatorship</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">performance</span> <span class="PRP">itself</span> <span class="VBZ">keeps</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class="NN">bound</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">real</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">fictional</span> <span class="NNS">ontologies</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="JJ">performative</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Azdora</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">then</span> <span class="RB">intrinsically</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="JJ">political</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="VBG">according</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="NNP">Rancière</span> <span class="NN">definition</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NNS">metapolitics</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="VB">’</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="VBG">destabilising</span> <span class="NN">action</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">produces</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">conflict</span> <span class="NN">vis</span> <span class="NNP">à</span> <span class="FW">vis</span> <span class="WP">what</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">thinkable</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">speakable</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Azdora</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="VBZ">allows</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">interpretations</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">produces</span> <span class="VBG">conflicting</span> <span class="NNS">discourses</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="VBG">remaining</span> <span class="JJ">untouched</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">This</span> <span class="VBZ">does</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="RB">necessarily</span> <span class="VB">mean</span> <span class="JJ">complete</span> <span class="IN">though</span> <span class="RB">as</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">contrary</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBG">generating</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">multiplicity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">gazes</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="DT">all</span> <span class="JJ">legitimate</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">complete</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="VBP">do</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">exhaust</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">This</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="WDT">what</span> <span class="VBZ">makes</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">performance</span> <span class="PRP">itself</span> <span class="JJ">unfulfilled</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">thus</span> <span class="JJ">incomplete</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">open</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">A</span> <span class="NN">Multiplicity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Gazes</span> <span class="DT">An</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class="NN">artwork</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="NNS">words</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">site</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="JJ">contradictory</span> <span class="JJ">individual</span> <span class="NNS">experiences</span> <span class="JJ">unfold</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">coexist</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">no</span> <span class="JJ">hierarchical</span> <span class="NN">structure</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">no</span> <span class="NN">orchestration</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">site</span> <span class="WRB">where</span> <span class="NNS">spectators</span> <span class="VBP">’</span> <span class="NNS">gazes</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VBN">composed</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">common</span> <span class="NN">horizon</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="JJ">let</span> <span class="JJ">free</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="RB">wildly</span> <span class="VB">engage</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PDT">all</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">realities</span> <span class="VBN">involved</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">connecting</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VBG">connecting</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">end</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">experience</span> <span class="NN">part</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">complex</span> <span class="NNP">‘</span> <span class="NN">whole</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">wholes</span> <span class="VBP">’</span> <span class="DT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">artwork</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="IN">while</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="JJ">aware</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="NN">unaware</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="NNS">wholes</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="NNS">gazes</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="WP">What</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">peculiar</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">kind</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">artworks</span> <span class="RB">then</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="WP">what</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="VB">produce</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">understanding</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">place</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NNS">politics</span> <span class="NN">today</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP">they</span> <span class="VBP">generate</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">multiplicity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">gazes</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">forms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">spectatorship</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="VBP">coexist</span> <span class="CD">one</span> <span class="JJ">next</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="IN">without</span> <span class="VBG">mediating</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="NNS">positions</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">points</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">view</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">multiplicity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">gazes</span> <span class="VBN">produced</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBN">gathered</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class="NNS">artworks</span> <span class="VBZ">does</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">compose</span> <span class="PRP">itself</span> <span class="IN">into</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">community</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="EX">there</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">no</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="JJ">common</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NN">present</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Rather</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">generates</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">radical</span> <span class="NN">collectivity</span> <span class="VBN">based</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="NN">multiplicity</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">on</span> <span class="VBG">conflicting</span> <span class="NNS">positions</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VBN">called</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">any</span> <span class="NN">form</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">negotiation</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="RB">just</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">cohabitation</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">space</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">work</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNS">Spectators</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">views</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">imaginations</span> <span class="VBP">are</span> <span class="VBN">acknowledged</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">equal</span> <span class="NNS">parts</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">collective</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBP">exist</span> <span class="JJ">next</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="DT">each</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">They</span> <span class="VBP">don</span> <span class="JJ">’</span> <span class="NN">t</span> <span class="NN">fuse</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="CD">one</span> <span class="JJ">common</span> <span class="NN">thought</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">don</span> <span class="JJ">’</span> <span class="NN">t</span> <span class="NN">see</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="VB">reflect</span> <span class="CD">one</span> <span class="JJ">common</span> <span class="NN">image</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="NN">effect</span> <span class="DT">each</span> <span class="JJ">other</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">sheer</span> <span class="NN">presence</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">operating</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">prism</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">multiplies</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">reality</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">reflects</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">A</span> <span class="NN">space</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">communication</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">opened</span> <span class="RB">here</span> <span class="DT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VBN">meant</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="JJ">unilateral</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="JJ">bilateral</span> <span class="NNS">exchanges</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="RB">rather</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">circulation</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">information</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">interpretations</span> <span class="VBP">–</span> <span class="DT">both</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">fictions</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">projections</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">A</span> <span class="NN">circulation</span> <span class="IN">over</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="DT">no</span> <span class="NN">one</span> <span class="VBZ">–</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">artist</span> <span class="NN">–</span> <span class="VBZ">exercises</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">full</span> <span class="NN">control</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">place</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">author</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">then</span> <span class="VBN">challenged</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">responsibility</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">shared</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">audience</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">participant</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="CD">11</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="RB">rather</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">unknowable</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class="JJ">collective</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">receives</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNS">reverberates</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">twists</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">Multiple</span> <span class="NNS">forms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">public</span> <span class="NNS">spaces</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="JJ">collective</span> <span class="NNS">subjectivities</span> <span class="RB">thus</span> <span class="RB">arise</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">start</span> <span class="VBG">inhabiting</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">productive</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">goes</span> <span class="RB">much</span> <span class="IN">beyond</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">artwork</span> <span class="PRP">itself</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">still</span> <span class="VBN">loaded</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">specific</span> <span class="NN">geography</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">infinities</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">has</span> <span class="VBN">produced</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="NN">kind</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="JJ">collective</span> <span class="NN">body</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="JJ">undecidability</span> <span class="NNS">produces</span> <span class="MD">could</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">course</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">seen</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">image</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">possible</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="JJ">future</span> <span class="JJ">societal</span> <span class="NN">structure</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">rather</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="JJ">enigmatic</span> <span class="NN">subject</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="RB">there</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">actualize</span> <span class="PRP">itself</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">keep</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">sheer</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">glimmering</span> <span class="NN">potentiality</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Indeed</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">practice</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">undecidability</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class="VBZ">produces</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">collectivity</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">future</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="RB">elsewhere</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="VBZ">does</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">claim</span> <span class="DT">any</span> <span class="NN">agency</span> <span class="IN">over</span> <span class="PRP">them</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="PRP">It</span> <span class="RB">rather</span> <span class="VBZ">operates</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">regime</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">prefiguration</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">[</span> <span class="CD">12</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">say</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">does</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">tend</span> <span class="NNS">towards</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">pre-existing</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">visible</span> <span class="NN">image</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">On</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">contrary</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">proceeds</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">darkness</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">order</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">produce</span> <span class="JJ">different</span> <span class="NNS">forms</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">visibility</span> <span class="IN">within</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Undecidability</span> <span class="MD">could</span> <span class="RB">then</span> <span class="VB">be</span> <span class="VBN">detached</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBN">applied</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="NN">curation</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">instituting</span> <span class="NNS">processes</span> <span class="CC">or</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="NNS">politics</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="JJ">large</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">unfolding</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NNS">resonances</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNS">consequences</span> <span class="RB">already</span> <span class="VBZ">opens</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">possibility</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">even</span> <span class="NNS">beckons</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Nevertheless</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">acknowledging</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="JJ">specific</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">art</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">thus</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">means</span> <span class="IN">without</span> <span class="NNS">ends</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBZ">seems</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="RBR">better</span> <span class="VB">protect</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">inner</span> <span class="NN">nature</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">intact</span> <span class="NN">potentiality</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">quality</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="VBZ">does</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">make</span> <span class="PRP">itself</span> <span class="JJ">available</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">any</span> <span class="NN">use</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">does</span> <span class="RB">not</span> <span class="VB">serve</span> <span class="DT">any</span> <span class="NN">agenda</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">but</span> <span class="VBZ">stays</span> <span class="JJ">autonomous</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VBZ">operates</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">creating</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">own</span> <span class="NNS">conditions</span> <span class="DT">all</span> <span class="RB">over</span> <span class="RB">again</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Ultimately</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">political</span> <span class="NN">dimension</span> <span class="VBZ">does</span> <span class="NN">spring</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="NNS">practices</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">undecidability</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">from</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="NN">encounter</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">multiplicity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">gazes</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VBG">Preserving</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="JJ">possible</span> <span class="RB">also</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">curating</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">relation</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">artworks</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NNS">spectators</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="VBG">setting</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">conditions</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">an</span> <span class="NN">intensity</span> <span class="WDT">that</span> <span class="MD">can</span> <span class="JJ">last</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="VB">reverberate</span> <span class="JJ">much</span> <span class="NN">wider</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">much</span> <span class="JJR">longer</span> <span class="IN">than</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">actual</span> <span class="VBD">shared</span> <span class="NN">space</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NN">time</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">performance</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">Through</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">combination</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">encounter</span> <span class="IN">between</span> <span class="JJ">undecidable</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">multiplicity</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">gazes</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">curatorial</span> <span class="NN">dimension</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="NN">condition</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NN">existence</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="VBN">produced</span> <span class="IN">that</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="RB">intrinsically</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">utterly</span> <span class="JJ">political</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="PRP">it</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="NNP">Samuel</span> <span class="NNP">Beckett</span> <span class="NNP">’</span> <span class="NN">s</span> <span class="NNS">words</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="DT">The</span> <span class="JJ">Unnamable</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">about</span> <span class="VBG">being</span> <span class="JJ">“</span> <span class="PDT">all</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">words</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="PDT">all</span> <span class="DT">these</span> <span class="NNS">strangers</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">dust</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">words</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="DT">no</span> <span class="NN">ground</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">settling</span> <span class="NN">”</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNS">Footnotes</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="CD">1</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="IN">Out</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="CD">five</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">sixth</span> <span class="NN">lecture</span> <span class="VBD">was</span> <span class="RB">never</span> <span class="VBN">written</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">as</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">author</span> <span class="VBD">died</span> <span class="RB">suddenly</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">series</span> <span class="VBD">remained</span> <span class="JJ">unfinished</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">yet</span> <span class="VBN">published</span> <span class="IN">with</span> <span class="PRP$">its</span> <span class="JJ">original</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="RB">now</span> <span class="VBG">misleading</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">title</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">2</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Italo</span> <span class="NNP">Calvino</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="VBP">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Visibility</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NNP">Six</span> <span class="NNP">Memos</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">Next</span> <span class="NNP">Millennium</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Harvard</span> <span class="NNP">University</span> <span class="NNP">Press</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Cambridge</span> <span class="CD">1988</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBD">p.</span> <span class="CD">91</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">3.</span> <span class="NN">ibid</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">p.</span> <span class="CD">92</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">4.</span> <span class="NN">ibid</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">p.</span> <span class="CD">97</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">5.</span> <span class="NN">ibid</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">6.</span> <span class="NN">ibid</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">p.</span> <span class="CD">98</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">7</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Italo</span> <span class="NNP">Calvino</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Multiplicity</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="VBP">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Six</span> <span class="NNP">Memos</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">Next</span> <span class="NNP">Millennium</span> <span class="NN">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">cit.</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="JJ">p.</span> <span class="CD">105</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">8</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CC">Or</span> <span class="JJ">‘</span> <span class="NN">art</span> <span class="NN">’</span> <span class="WDT">which</span> <span class="VBZ">is</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">term</span> <span class="PRP">I</span> <span class="MD">will</span> <span class="VB">use</span> <span class="IN">below</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">rest</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="DT">this</span> <span class="NN">essay</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">9</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Claire</span> <span class="NNP">Bishop</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="VBP">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="NNP">Artificial</span> <span class="NNP">Hells</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="NNP">Participatory</span> <span class="NNP">Art</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNS">Politics</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Spectatorship</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NNP">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Verso</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">London-New</span> <span class="NNP">York</span> <span class="CD">2012</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBD">p.</span> <span class="CD">33</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">10</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="RB">Respectively</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="JJ">independent</span> <span class="NN">filmmaker</span> <span class="NNP">Sarah</span> <span class="NNP">Barberis</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="IN">by</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">researcher</span> <span class="NNP">Laura</span> <span class="NNP">Gemini</span> <span class="IN">at</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Urbino</span> <span class="NNP">University</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="CD">11</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="DT">An</span> <span class="JJ">active</span> <span class="NN">group</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNS">spectators</span> <span class="VBN">invited</span> <span class="TO">to</span> <span class="VB">exercise</span> <span class="PRP$">their</span> <span class="NN">agency</span> <span class="IN">over</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NN">artwork</span> <span class="CD">12</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="VB">See</span> <span class="NNP">Valeria</span> <span class="NNP">Graziano</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="VBP">i</span> <span class="VBP">]</span> <span class="JJ">Prefigurative</span> <span class="NNS">Practices</span> <span class=":">:</span> <span class="JJ">Raw</span> <span class="NNS">Materials</span> <span class="IN">for</span> <span class="DT">a</span> <span class="JJ">Political</span> <span class="NN">Positioning</span> <span class="IN">of</span> <span class="NNP">Art</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="VBG">Leaving</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Avant-garde</span> <span class="NNP">[</span> <span class="NN">i</span> <span class="NN">]</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="IN">in</span> <span class="NNP">Elke</span> <span class="NN">van</span> <span class="NNP">Campenhout</span> <span class="CC">and</span> <span class="NNP">Lilia</span> <span class="NNP">Mestre</span> <span class="(">(</span> <span class="FW">ed</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class=")">)</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Turn</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Turtle</span> <span class=".">!</span> <span class="VBG">Reenacting</span> <span class="DT">the</span> <span class="NNP">Institute</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Alexander</span> <span class="NNP">Verlag</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NNP">Berlin</span> <span class="CD">2016</span> <span class=",">,</span> <span class="NN">pp</span> <span class=".">.</span> <span class="JJ">158-172</span> <span class=".">.</span>
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