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Mapping the Imaginary: the Knot Chronicles

Creative writing with Vlad Morariu & The Satellite Group

Mapping the Imaginary: the Knot Chronicles

Asking about the conditions and possibilities of a real link between “the existing and the imaginary”, the project excavates the structures of what Fredric Jameson calls the political unconscious, on the stage of which we negotiate and interpret the past and present socio-cultural expressions of our experiences. Concretely, the project begins by proposing a series of novels which have had a philosophical-political point of focus (Paul Auster, Dostoievsky, Sartre, etc.), from which it extracts the geographical sites – real or imaginary – where their plots unfold. The next step is to construct points of reference on a contemporary cognitive map of their spaces of unfolding, starting with the help of modern means of urban navigation such as google.maps. Having highlighted areas which symbolically become the carrier-expressions of socio-political auras, towards which we always return with our own historical overload, the final step is to contact real addressees of these spaces, in the hope that an answer will be received. The participants in the Knot are invited to collaborate in a process of creative writing - of letters - which will be later sent by air-mail. The letters describe the situation in the Knot, but also the political ideals and aspirations of their participants. Since the letters are sent to the unknown – about which there is knowledge and lack of knowledge at same time, somewhere at the border between fictional and real – receiving answers parallels an ideal situation when parts of our own (political) unconscious are made manifest.

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