Dispatch: The first and obvious separation is between
Artist and curator Kroplya’s poem – a dispatch from the School of Common Knowledge in Madrid and Barcelona – mines one of the school’s central themes, that of ‘rooting and uprooting’. Please note, if you are reading from a handheld device, please rotate it to be able to read the full text.
The first and obvious separation is between
there
– silent hell,
literal purgatory and
nostalgic paradise
– and here –
everything that is not
there.
And you live
here,
but your
here
is still part of the reality
there.
Because
here
you are not complete.
here
you are always everything but local.
But you also have no connection to
there anymore,
because you live
here.
So it turns out that
you are neither
here
nor
there.
But because you still live
here,
questions arise
There.
And because of the questions
There
you are incapable of being
there.
That is, you are forced to live
here.
And provoke questions
There.
But in order to live
here,
you
must
always
have
evidence
for
Here
that you are unable to live
there
because
of
what
is
going
on
There.
But your inability is of particular interest to no one
Here
or
There.
And
considering
that
There
does
not
provide
any
evidence
for
Here,
except for the very fact of danger,
here
you
are
also
in
a
state
almost
like
there.
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