QUESTION TIME

STATEMENT OF INTENT 2.6TWICE LOST GLOVES THE FINGER

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Statement of Intent 2.6 from Question Time [QT], Copenhagen, Denmark. Question Timehold daily summits somewhere in Copenhagen. After each summit a new statement ofintent is issued.

Attending:

David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham, Alex Eisenberg, Mary Paterson.

Location:

Cafe Zusammen.

Minute taker:

David BerridgeWe are approaching agreement. An oppressive place. You should subscribe. Its spiral is a slow, continualgradation. The shape of potential. We have to agree dates. When did we first become aware of thisclimate change crisi

s our own existence in time? One of us proposes 1984. Another says 1989. But eachhas their agenda, wishing to sit in their birthday chair, covered in crepe paper.Maybe these are bargaining positions, the real year two or three years before. I do not yet have a year foracquiring awareness. Is that why I keep the minutes? How can we achieve agreement? One of us had aboyfriend who had one testicle. One of us had a boyfriend, born with forceps that slipped and poked outone eye. Maybe there will be a deal at the last minute.This is my birthday. But everyone is in the next room watching television. The writers group haveabandoned the democratic process to go off on their own and write villanelles about lego. They fight overend words, equating their predicament to the fall of the Soviet Union. Stupid writers. Perhaps no deal ishappening but then there is a late intervention: if we have birthmarks we will celebrate them as parts ofour body. Everyone who sees our mark in its entirety – a baroque protestant drape over half the body –has given us a letter. The letters spell a phrase:TWICE LOST GLOVESThe story of the performance by the man in the towel at the party at 3AM has been omitted from theseminutes. All his work is about testicular cancer. We chased a convoy – was it Obama? – convinced ourgloves were inside. We were reassured in our failure by a man who gave us fruit and tea and lowered ourbicycle seat so we could ride under the convoys that were everywhere blocking free passage through thecity. Everything was nice. We were all reassured by the unfamiliarly close proximity of our knees and chin.The agreement takes shape: We wash our hair, and sort audio files, and lose some more gloves and insistthe floor be mopped. We love mopping followed by a multi-bird roast. But this 10 bird monstrosity could bedeal breaking so we must be more concrete:(a) WHERE WE ARE NOW