The Collective Question
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Performance in Indianapolis, IN The "Question" as a verbal construction is the primary unit for communication and dialogue. The "Question" can serve as a catalyst to create an association from dispersed units. The "Question" has the power to provoke thought and eventually to destabilize the power system. The "Question" mobilizes and organizes. The "Question" reveals and, eventually, can heal. The Floating Lab Collective believes that The "Question" is central to the notion of participation and inclusion, the "Question" is ultimately an engine for social empowerment and resistance, the "Question" activates. We will specifically target Indianapolis as the "crossroads of America". Our intent is to use the "Screamers" as a platform to deliver Collective Questions in the public space. The Floating Lab Collective, will elaborate a system to obtain questions online through: > calling to 646-495-9205 x 63069 to leave a question in a voicemail mssg > posting in an on-line form > emailing your question to collectivequestion@drop.io We would like to work with groups of poets and their audiences to compose an audio piece comprised of voices of performers in local arts groups to take these questions and amplify them.
Our methodology follows: Contact universities with poetry programs to find out where poets gather to read their works. Once we gather our contact list we will mail out business cards with instructions to participate in the Collective Question directing them to a voicemail phone number to state their question. We will download participants' questions from to create a script to be performed, and then be made into an MP3 file for the Screamers for public performance and as a downloadable file from iTunes. We will elaborate a schedule for public engagement in the public space with people from Indianapolis. Examples of questions gathered to date:
- What is the life of a question?
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