P-Prompt: Prepositions

Séverine Dusollier, a long time close collaborator and inspiration to us, has been working as a lawyer, researcher, and teacher in Paris. With her work on critical approaches to copyright and IP, she brings a particular legal perspective to the project. In the prompt “Prepositions” (Prompt 14) developed for the worksession Revisit Reuse (Brussels, May 2024), she proposes to reconsider the relationship between copyright and collective practice, asking whether a move from the singular to plural pronouns would be sufficient.

Building on Severines proposal to think through the complexities of language and its performativities, we focus here in this prompt on the ways we speak about our relationship to creative works. Riffing on her game with prepositions and pronouns, we experiment with a range of prepositions that all open up different ways to relate to creative work. The used prepositions are related to time, position, location, and direction.

The visualisation is a remake of the slogan generator, 2000 by De Geuzen, http://geuzen.org/change.html. View source. http://www.hypergurl.com

https://titipi.org/files/revisitreuse/prepositions.html