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Dispatch: The first and obvious separation is between

Kroplya
 

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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