{"id":84,"date":"2019-03-11T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T12:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nivel.teak.fi\/adie\/?p=84"},"modified":"2022-01-12T11:39:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T09:39:11","slug":"no-answers-questions-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nivel.teak.fi\/adie\/no-answers-questions-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Mills<\/i> No Answers Questions Only"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NO??????????????????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANSWERS????????????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QUESTIONS???????????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ONLY????????????????
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is a situated collective artistic research practice designed to be embodied by a group of anyones, anywhere at anytime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NO??????????????????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANSWERS????????????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QUESTIONS???????????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ONLY????????????????
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is generated by Peter Mills – a choreographer, performer and researcher currently living in Stockholm, Sweden and working all over the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RULES??????????????????????????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep the practice in the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can opt out at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Express any concerns or worries out-loud in question form or communicate them privately to the convener of the practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ethical conditions\/conventions\/considerations are created by the people in relation to the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are the people in the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TASKS??????????????????????????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ask questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don’t voice a question, notice what it does to not voice it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feel free to repeat the questions of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be prepared to give and to assume authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be prepared to give and receive attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice to whom or to what you are addressing your question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

yourself, another person, an object, the room, a group, the group, the situation or yourself\/other\/object\/room\/group\/situation somewhere outside of the room?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work on accepting that an answer to a question will be another question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t get hung-up on cause and effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t get hung up on trying to make a question in response to another question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Know that a question might be answered by the effect it has on your thinking, acting, being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pay attention to doing rather than meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this what you think it is?
\nOr is this it?
\nWhat is the history of this?
\nCan we stand?
\nCan we lunge?
\nCan we walk?
\nCan we dance?
\nCan we do the same thing?
\nCan we do the same thing at the same time?
\nCan we arrange ourselves in the space?
\nCan we rearrange the space?
\nCan we make a performance?
\nWhat is it that informs?
\nWhat does inform, mean?
\nHow can the questions be about their influence and not about their answer?
\nHow can we avoid answering?
\nHow can we let the questions become another expression?
\nDo the questions unhinge our definitions?
\nDo our values shift?
\nDo I get closer to the other?
\nAre the questions uncensored?
\nDo questions make everything ambiguous?
\nAre they ambiguous?
\nAre we ambiguous?
\nIs everything ambiguous?
\nIs there clarity in ambiguity?
\nIs there clarity?
\nCan meaning be in the movement of thought rather than in the thought itself?
\nIs there a type of freedom to be had by questioning everything?
\nAre these questions owned?
\nDoes the listener own the question?
\nDoes the question float between us like a possibility?
\nIs an unanswered question like opening a door and not closing it?
\nDo these unclosed doors allow us to move and think differently?
\nWhat does it do to open so many doors and not close any?
\nAm I attending to you?
\nAm I attending to you through being as well as through action?
\nAm I opening myself up to interrogation without judgment?
\nIs this a kind of ethics, one without judgment or enforcement?
\nDoes asking what exists without prescribing meaning create another kind of communication?
\nDoes relevance fall away?
\nIs relevance as heavy as it needs to be?
\nIs relevance as light as it needs to be?
\nDo we challenge relevance’s form by prodding and probing its materiality?
\nWhat if we map relevance with interest as a uninhibited guide?
\nWhat remains inhibited in this realm of no answers only questions?
\nIs this an ethically questionable practice?
\nIs this an aesthetically questionable practice?
\nIn a verbally open and vocal environment, what would be a crime?
\nWhen I speak of crime, am I speaking of it as something that goes against human decency?
\nIs the permission to opt-out necessary?
\nIs opting out necessary in a controlled and enforced society?
\nIs opting out possible in a controlled and enforced society?
\nDoes no answers only questions imagine a different kind of society?
\nIs this game about listening or about questioning?
\nCould questioning without the expectation of getting an answer make one listen closer\/harder?
\nDoes one listen closer\/harder if a question isn’t affirmed by an answer?
\nDo the unanswered questions become non-affirmative statements?
\nIs this soft power or autonomous power?
\nDoes a room of questioning subjects have no hierarchical structure?
\nDoes no answers only questions return responsibility to the individual through the collective voice?
\nIf one hears a question and does not answer it, will there be an enacted response, an action?
\nIs no answers only questions about generating direct action?
\nIs no answers only questions about practising direct action?
\nHow does no answers only questions compare to democracy or to freedom?
\nWhy would an answer engage more with hierarchy than a question?
\nDoes the game have something to learn\/borrow from post-structuralism?
\nDoes the game attend to the idea that words control us and limit our freedom?
\nCould the removal of definitions allow us not to be limited by conventions and assumptions?
\nCould the removal of answers allow for unknowns to become material, valuable?
\nIs it still possible to have and\/or give value within the game?
\nDoes the game demonstrate the possibility for value outside of existing structures?
\nDoes the value inside the game never take a particular shape?
\nIs it possible to value something without recognising it’s shape?
\nDoes allowing for any question, even questions which question questioning, stop one from lashing out, from testing the limits of acceptable behaviour?
\nDoes one stop concerning one’s self in reaction or relation to the enforcement of a specific logic?
\nWhere are the police inside the no answers only questions game?
\nDoes the questioning game become an improvisation about provocation?
\nHow does it not become an improvisation around provocation?
\nWhat is the logic we improvise with in the no answers only questions game?
\nWhat happens when we are no longer juxtaposing our improvisation activity against an authority, social or literal?
\nWhat if one no longer needs to use improvisation as a tool to test the limits of the conventions for that particular improvisation?
\nDo the questions expose the challenges present in the conventions of the improvisation?
\nOr do the question reveal\/exhaust\/ illustrate the fictitious nature of the authority?
\nDo the questions allow one to engage with legitimate authority, debunking an authority unable to withstand this open and uncensored questioning?
\nDoes the questioning game scale up?
\nWhat is the capacity for participation in the game?
\nDoes the subjectivity\/proximity\/intimacy render the game unable to engage with objective knowledge?
\nCan one think of this choreographic game as a new world order?
\nWould objective knowledge have to legitimise itself via unfettered questioning?
\nIs stupidity eliminated in the same way crime is?
\nIs nothing stupid, is nothing criminal?
\nDoes rationality take on an increasingly personal role in this game?
\nDoes rationality take on an increasingly personal role in this society?
\nDoes the questioning game function because it is easier to ask a question than to make a statement?
\nDoes the abundance of questions allow one to hide a question in amongst all of the others?
\nIs it possible to exhaust one’s questions?
\nDo some questions produce the same thing?
\nShould one repeat a question to see if it does something different?
\nDo some questions do the same thing?
\nAre all questions unique?
\nIs this poetic?
\nOr is this only prolific?
\nWhat has this already informed?
\nIs the question always generative?
\nWhat are we generating?
\nDoes creativity lead to equality?
\nDoes creativity depend upon freedom?
\nWhere will we go from here?
\nIs it always a question?
\nIs it ok to go and let the going lead us somewhere else?
\nIs it possible to go a place, without deviation?
\nWhere aren’t we going?
\nDo questions on top of questions calm the anxiety to understand?
\nDoes understanding the inability to understand fully calm?
Are these my thoughts?
\nIs this my body?
\nIs this my movement?
\nIs this my breath?
\nIs this my life?
\nWhat can I prove?
\nWhat do I want to prove?
\nWhat do I have to prove?
\nWhy am I speaking as I?
\nWhy just I me, why not you you, me you, you me, or you me we?
\nWhat are we?
\nAm I decentralised?
\nIs this an ecology?
\nIs this rhizomic?
\nIs this intersubjectivity?
\nHow to reclaim our creative potentiality?
\nWho took our creative potentiality?
\nHow to undermine illegitimate authority?
\nHow to hear another expansive\/unexpected\/unheard story?
\nCan we unlearn our expected trajectory?
\nCan we be vocally bodily community?
\nWhat is idealised authority?
\nWhat is an open communicativity\/plasticity\/proximity?
\nIs this a question?
\nWhat if one follows hard the deconstructive method to challenge authoritarianism?
\nWhat if authority was given the burden of proving its legitimacy?
\nWhat of using symbolic deconstruction to expose the choreographic means of authority?
\nWhat about challenging authority to create a non-representational ethics?
\nWhat about challenging authority to cause a non-representational ethics?
\nCan one demonstrate that there is no such thing as singular representation?
\nWhat is choreography?
\nIs this choreography?
\nWhat happens when a collective practice asks that everyone only speak in questions?
\nWhat might deny any single authority the ability to sustain itself?
\nWhat if one just goes unquestioningly with the collective?
\nOr what if one opposes, undermines, suggest alternatives or expresses slight reluctance in relation to the collective?
\nWhat happens if we expand the range\/scale\/dimension of what we perceive to be collective understanding?
\nWhat happens if we continually increase commitment to one and other?
\nWhat happens if we create a continuous ethical commitment to the collective?
\nCan we ask irrelevant questions?
\nWhat do irrelevant questions do?
\nWhat does a distraction create?
\nIs everything relevant?
\nHow will you plan your week?
\nIs this the best way to spend your time?
\nIs there a best way to do anything?
\nIs this nihilistic?
\nWhat music goes well with this choreography?<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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