in response to Raqs Media Collective's EDITED MAN

dated 10.02 1990 - just outside Kashmir.
DETAIL WRITTEN VERTICALLY WITH PENCIL BEHIND THE IMAGE
5x7 inch Black and white non-digital photograph pasted on coloured paper
........................................................................


On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Jeebesh wrote:
> We found the seated figure of a man in somebody's storage space. We
> found him sitting and with what sees to us to be like a startled look
> on his face. We have been wondering what would it mean to work towards
> him acquire a life, a philosophy, tastes, passions, a repertoire of
> sentiments, a list of favourite books, songs, movies and secret
> work, or a story, or a poem, or a song, or a quote, or an anecdote, or
> a travel dairy notation, or a bibliography, or a joke, or another
> image, or a reference to other works, or all of the above or something
> else.
>
> You could even make a list of provisions that you think he might need,
> books and texts you might want him to read, music that you might want
> him to listen to, or things that you might want him to take along as
> he makes his way in the world. You can also choose to respond in a
> completely tangential and oblique way, if you so wish, bypassing our
> sense of who he is, and communicating directly with the figure and
> what he represents to you.
>
> We would like to gather your responses into a book that we want to
> make as an accompaniment to the work that we will produce in the
> autumn this year.
>
> Please send us your response by 31st July.
>
> Warm greetings
>
> Raqs Media Collective
> June, 2009