<p><em>entry</em></p>
<p>What we understand by ‘entry’ is a proposal and access point (or passageway) that gives onto a practice and mode of thinking and doing things. Entries are configured through (but not limited to) words, which we frequently use when asked to describe what we do, or why. For instance: we ‘collaborate’, we ‘move’, we ‘research’, we ‘operate’, we have a ‘voice’. Entries are words that we keep coming back to and in which we invest meaning and ethics, without necessarily having formulated (and/or articulated) a theory around them. At each moment in our lives these words change, and involve a different process. They make up our ‘vocabularies’.</p>
<p>Entries are made of reflections and questions, ‘framing’ those in order to allow us to work with them. As such, they constitute ‘access points’ to both thinking and practice through a double movement of exposure and proposal. Through entries we propose to experientally and experimentally frame our individual vocabularies and offer this to others. Entries come to be made collectively at some point.</p>
<p>Entries speak of different problems and situations that we find ourselves struggling with, as well as strategies we might invent in order to meet them. Specific to situations, entries embody our problems, ideas and references in ways that keep on changing. They are not definitions, but rather dense clusters of ideas and questions that we invest with desires and hopes. This investment is not so much about theoretical rigor, but rather comes from an urgency to construct ourselves a framework through which to become vocal as well as vulnerable. An entry always opens onto another.</p>
<p>Proposal for making an entry via a diagram:</p>
<p>Like diagrams, entries expose a problematic relational field, bound up with the struggles, hopes, desires and points of crisis we face in our lives. A diagram can constitute the basis for thinking about possible other ways of acting and relating within this field, and intervening in it. It can be the frame of reference through which we support each other, address and understand our respective life situations and practices.</p>
<p>- Think about a couple of words, images or objects that have kept coming up as reference points in your life recently, for example in conversations that matter to you. Do you find yourself repeatedly saying a certain word, making a certain gesture or visiting a certain object or site? What preoccupies you at the moment? Where do you find yourself in a place of doubt?</p>
<p>- Focus on one of these instances and try to map out the terms, situations, people, places and questions to which they are connected. Whatever medium you might want to work with, take this instance as a starting point to develop a broader diagram.</p>
<p>- Take this diagram as something you will continuously work with and might share. This diagram will frame your entry process in working in a collective situation.</p>
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