When A-Desk invited me to collaborate as editor, my main concern was, and still is, how to realise the map “Poetic Recodification of Collective Imagination” so that it doesn’t get plastered, so that it doesn’t become fixed in an object. Because, indeed, this is how it was shown in two group exhibitions in which it was not possible to activate the map as a relational process. Mainly because the exhibition apparatus tends to reify dynamic processes and, consequently, does not allow for their reconfiguration according to the unexpected relations that it incites. The process I’m starting this October consists of activating the map as a relational practice through conversations with collectives that, in my opinion, base their processes of collectivity on imagining poetic forms that allow us to better understand our action in the world.<\/p>\n
“Poetic Recodification of Collective Imagination” responds to the urgency to imagine a horizon of hope in the face of the vertigo of the collapse of the modern-world-system. This nomadic cartography emerges not from the vertigo that precedes the apocalypse, but from the principle of extreme possibility to imagine and define a horizon of hope. “Poetic Recodification of\u00a0 Collective Imagination” is a chaotic, decentred, non-hierarchical and non-totalising process; it is a device that invites us to imagine the potentialities of life in communality outside the utopia-dystopia binomial through what \u00c9douard Glissant calls the Poetics of Relation<\/em>[1]<\/sup><\/a> \u00c9douard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, trans. Betsy Wing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).]<\/em><\/span><\/span>