JACOPO MILIANI. You boss has given you this factory what do you think?

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Jacopo Miliani

Your boss has given you this factory. What do you think?

2015 Self (Pleasure) Publishing

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Arrivo Domani By João Laia

“Your boss has given you this factory. What do you think?” is a project developed in 2015 by Jacopo Miliani. For a few weeks, Miliani chatted with users of several gay social networks impersonating the film script of Teorema (Theorem, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968) to engage in conversation. This book reproduces the exchanges taking place during this experiment, following the order of the script. The script was used in its entirety without any cuts or adaptations and each line was quoted individually. In the book, we can read the responses which these quotes triggered. Whilst general information about each user is included, such as location and/or age, their anonymity is preserved. Inversely, Miliani has used his personal and presumably preexisting profiles to engage with these online communities.

Teorema stands out as a particular piece in Pasolini’s body of work. Firstly envisioned as a theatre play, it was later developed as a book published in February 1968 and as a film, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September of the same year. Both forms were produced in parallel, working as deeply related and yet autonomous entities: neither the film was the base for the book nor did the book follow the libro2.indd 4-5

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film’s guidelines, instead both developed from the original idea. In Pasolini’s words, printed in the first edition of the publication: “Teorema was born as if on a gilded background painted with the right hand while the left hand was working in a large wall fresco”1.

Both the book and the film tell the story of an affluent Milanese household: father, mother, sister, brother and their servant. A short telegram announces an unexpected visit: “I arrive tomorrow” (Arrivo domani). The visitor, whose name we never know, quietly and steadily seduces everyone and uncovers repressed layers of each individual’s personality. After developing intimate connections with all characters, the visitor announces his unforeseen departure, which leaves the family in a void they were not aware of prior to this visit. Their different reactions to the young man’s absence - from promiscuous behaviour, to martyrdom, psychologically driven paralysis, reclusion in a bare land and nihilistic art production - mark the implosion of a family through a series of cathartic explosions.

What is Miliani’s aim in quoting such narrative in contemporary online gay chat communities? A direct connection might be found through sex. It is through sexual contact that the visitor bonds with the household members and uncovers their hidden fears which are resolved momentarily. Gay online chatrooms are commonly used as a means to encounter sexual partners.

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In the original “Teorema è nato come su fondo oro, dipinto con la mano destra, mentre con la mano sinistra la votavo ad affrescare un a grande parete” translation by the author.

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At the same time, and perhaps more importantly in this context, chatrooms are also channels where to experiment with identity, probing different characters that, in direct or subtle ways, connect with the user’s own personality. Masquerade is a strong topic in Teorema, as the characters conceal secrets and forms of being from each other. The visitor himself is under a mysterious guise as no detail from his past life is ever given nor are we made aware of why he arrives or departs, where he comes from or where he is going. Still on the topic of masking, it is also worth mentioning that Miliani’s gesture of quoting Teorema echoes the constant citations of art history, Marxism, the Bible, or Dostojevski contained in the film as well as in the book. This creates a play of references which illustrates Pasolini’s personal beliefs wrapped under his selection and appropriation method.

Both Miliani’s project and Teorema present a dialectics between individuality and the collective.

Whereas in Teorema the conflict is between the oppressing gravity of the family institution and its members, in the online chats there is a similar friction between dominant forms of representation and each members’ individuality, whose dynamics are being tested at each interaction. In this sense Miliani’s use of Teorema’s script might be seen as a means to disrupt business as usual. As a matter of fact, it is not often that political conversations happen in such contexts even though these virtual spaces could be easily deemed highly political territories.

By inserting Teorema’s phrases in such a decontextualized manner, Miliani is probing and 02/11/15 15:09

monitoring the readiness of the users to discuss topics which are usually absent from these chats. Not only does he explore how open people might be to engage in discourse production, but he also tests the limits and boundaries of what he perceives as a “normalisation of the gay scene, whereby even anonymous sex has a set of rules which are hardly changeable”. The responses range from: surprise, lack of interest, humour, disregard for the content in the continuation of sexual pursuit, subverting what is being told or no response at all.

In a way Miliani is acting as the visitor in Teorema but, instead of promoting love (through sex) as a tool for change, like the character did in a paradoxical echo of the 60s countercultural ideals as well as of the christian preaching of Jesus, he removes sex and seduction from the equation. Thus, he creates a hybrid and novel space out of confrontation, a new context which is full of potential due to its contextual foreignness: the fact that he is not introducing his project or mentioning that he is using Pasolini’s words produces an unclear scenario that counteracts the usual small talk dictated by mere sexual interest in the other.

Sex, as Teorema points out, is also a path to knowledge: the characters connect with their own selves through and as a consequence of having sex with the visitor. Likewise, online dates allow a number of people with different backgrounds to get to ‘know’ each other.

The ability to surpass boundaries related to geography, wealth or education, is arguably one of the most vital and political potentials of chatrooms in general. In a similar way to what gay bars and clubs used to be, and, to some extent still are, the online gay scene is a space of libro2.indd 8-9

soft boundaries and mixing. However, it progressively is getting more and more fragmented as it tries to cater for specific target groups. Perhaps Miliani’s aim is precisely to underline such potential, usually less visible and underused, reframed in a way that echoes how neoliberal economics transforms everything into a commodity: web browsing becomes a series of ‘shop window purchases’.

Miliani’s gesture aims at subverting this order of things and at making visible the oppression embedded in a one-sided use of such platforms, which hold many more varied possibilities. He is not opposed to or judgmental about the use of online platforms for purely sexual motives, but he points out that the full potential of such spaces is limited by singular normative forms of usage. In a way, the recurrent barren landscapes in the film Teorema echo the single and harsh aim of finding sex inside a virtual social network, but they could also be related to Miliani’s book representing, for the reader/ spectator, an abstract field still open to be constructed or redeveloped. There is a wide number of possibilities which, like the visitor, might or might not arrive tomorrow.

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1 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,951 Your boss has given you this factory. What do you think?

Location: London Age: 26 Picnic in hydepark! Haha, but no company ;( Anyway, I am heading for gym now ^^ What is your plan?

2 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,556 So he’s the main character in this story?

Location: Milan Age: /// Is not a ‘he’, is a ‘it’: life 3 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,508 Hasn’t this blocked all chance of a workers’ revolution in the future?

Location: Thimphu, Bhutan Age: 226 what, me being unemployable? :) I was born in 1789 and I shall lead the new french revolution :) liberté, égalité,

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fraternité, homosexualité!

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The bourgeoisie will never turn all humanity into bourgeoisie

Is his act unique, or a general modern world tendency?

Location: Thimphu, Bhutan Age: 226 what a coincidence, i saw Teorema a couple of months ago 5 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:44,396 A general tendency, I think: Can such acts, as symbols of a new source of power… herald the transformation of all humanity into the bourgeoisie?

Location: Savannah, United States Age: 43

Location: New York, USA Age: 24 Amen sister!

I like your brain!

7 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:58,714 So the not very original answer is: No matter what he does, even giving away a factory... a bourgeois is always wrong Location: New York, USA Age: 24 Foucault?

8 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,633 Is that it?

Location: New York, USA Age: 24 I think so. You tell me - I don’t want to reply

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This bourgeoisie is making revolutionary changes… in our situation.

It’s identifying all humanity with the bourgeois class

What are the answers to these questions?

Location: Mosta, Malta Age: 52 I agree!

10 00:01:09,960 -->00:01:23,352 It no longer faces a class struggle: using the army, the nation or the church.

Then it would fail; it would lose its natural allies You must answer the new questions raised by the bourgeoisie Location: Mosta, Malta Age: 52 Interesting sentence but ... is it related to what?

And said that, where are we going? :-) 11 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:26,198 Of course What are the answers to these questions?

Location: Italia Age:22 It’s just one question.Where are the other ones?

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Location: Turkey I wanna sex 13 00:03:47,340 --> 00:03:51,333 God led the people about through the way of the wilderness Location: Manila Philipine Age: 25 True!

14 00:07:50,100 --> 00:07:51,852 ARRIVING TOMORROW Location: Dussendorlf, Germany Age: 25 Okay :D 15 00:08:02,420 --> 00:08:04,251 Pietro, how about some music?

Location: Israel Age: 34 Show your dick!Show!

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Well, do you feel better?

It was nothing.

I’m here

Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 33 Erm… Dude are you having a’moment’?

Location: Poland Age:/// Hi Show face

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Sorry. I’m afraid it’s all rather makeshift It’s fine It’s been a real invasion

Sorry Your friends are calling you

Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 33 If your bored - find another way to amuse yourself If you are does it have to involve me?

What and who I am looking for is on my very detailed and precise profile Your rocking a beard & your nowhere near to me…

Location: Poland Age:/// I don’t understand

18 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,398 I used to sleep in this room when I was little Location: Cairo, Egypt Age: 42 Excuse me?

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21 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,072 You’re a serious player Location: Poland Age:/// Yeah! Why do you ask?

22 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,994 These are my friends

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Location: Poland Age:/// I don’t understand 23 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,392 What’s the time?

Location: California Age: 50 7:30 24 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,228 I don’t know Location: United Kingdom Age: /// 33 London u?

25 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,997 - What does it matter?

Location: Italy Age: /// That you send me a photo!

- It’s six o’clock

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26 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:12,790 It’s about a sick man like me Location: New York, USA Age: 30 What’s the meaning of it all?

27 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,790 Even in this disagreeable situation Ivan Ilich found comfort Location: Toronto, Canada Age: 45 Is it a quote?

I could google it but i’d rather hear it from you. :-P 28 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:18,233 Gerasim came to wash him, Gerasim was a clean, fresh peasant boy Location: Toronto, Canada Age: 45 Ah, Tolstoy!

I read Anna Karenina years ago.

I should read more.

How’s your day sexy?

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29 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,558 What are you reading?

Location: Toronto, Canada Age: 45 Right now? The Handbook of Nature Study

by Anna Botsford Comstock. :-) 30 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,230 His life was his and his alone Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 24 Pics please babe what are you looking for?

31 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:39,315 It would take longer to duplicate his goodness than to create a star Location: New York, USA Age: 30 Oh I like. Tell me more about this 32 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:46,712 The godhead which had come without my hoping for it has not returned, and will never return again

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Location: New York, USA Age: 30 That’s beautiful!

33 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:57,555 I like speeding.

Now I’ll show you what the car can do Location: Dakar, Senegal Age: 35 The car?

34 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,632 I believe you, but I’m not young any more Location: Dakar, Senegal Age: 30 OK 35 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:18,117 You’re not Gerasim…

Location: Dakar, Senegal Age: 30 No I am not!

Who are you?

Tell me!

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36 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,868 …it’s difficult to face you Location: Germany, Saxony Age: 56 not difficult, at work before I unconcentrated students 37 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:28,551 There are two reasons I must talk to you Location: Taiwan Age: 26 What reasons?

38 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:33,396 Firstly, there’s my moral sense Location: Taiwan Age:26 I am confused… :-S 39 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:46,079 Then there’s a sort of confusion within me, which maybe I can only clarify by talking about it

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Location: Taiwan Age:26 You are confused too. I see! Bye! 40 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,157 You have seduced me, Lord, and I have let myself be seduced Location: Rome, Italy Age: 43 My dearest… If in each other hands, our heart lays, we need strong hands to hold them tight…

41 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:57,076 You have violated me and you have prevailed Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 29 what are you talking abt…?

42 00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:03,553 I have become an object of daily derision, everyone mocks me Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 29 Why Mr? Perchè?

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43 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:09,996

Location: Mexico Age: 24

For I heard the defaming of many, terror on every side

“But the Lord is with me as a mighty, fearsome one; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail. They shall be greatly ashamed, for they shall not prosper; their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten”

Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 29 Very deep mr. You Ok? have you been smoking cannabis?

44 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,392 “Denounce him, and we will denounce him” Location: Ghent, Belgium Age 31 Totally!

45 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:21,791 All my friends awaited my downfall, saying: “Perhaps he will let himself be seduced…

47 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,750 What did you say? So you do talk!

Location: Poland Age: /// Me? 48 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,151 I must go. Tomorrow

Location: Mexico Age: 24 Where is it from?

Location: Colombia Medellin Age: 33 Fine! I am here working

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“…and we shall take our revenge on him”

I don’t know myself anymore

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Location: Hungary Age: /// Really ?

I guess you are a great guy?

50 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,789 Because what made me the same as others has been destroyed Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 63 No stats! where ru? are u well built downstairs? Top or Bottom, kinky or not.

Tell me Mr Handsome. Please 51 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,630 I was like all the others, maybe with many faults Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom Age: 22 if you were like all the others as well, then you would of had just as many good points 52 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,476 You’ve made me different by taking me from the natural order of things

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Location: Tamale, Ghana Age: 25 That’s very sweet 53 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,315 While you were near, I didn’t realize it Location: Tamale, Ghana Age: 25 Oooooo really? who are you?

54 00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:07,712 Now I understand, you’re leaving…

Location: Tamale, Ghana Age: 25 Your words are awesome, but I have no idea of what u talking about 55 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:12,158 ...and knowing I’m losing you makes me aware of my difference Location: Tamale, Ghana Age: 25 Omg I have no idea. Can you be a little bit clear.? I Am soo in suspence

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What will become of me from now on?

But whether I desire it or not, won’t this set me against everyone?

Location: Albuquerque, USA Age: 42 Perhaps you should find another person to fuck with and life will carry on 57 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:20,236 The future will be like living with someone nothing to do with myself

Location: Milan, Italy Age 42 I don’t think so All you need is love!

60 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,151 I realize now that I’ve never had…

Location: Milan, Italy Age: 42 Ok! I would be interested

Location: Milan, Italy Age 42 So you really need it!

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Maybe I must probe the depths of this difference you have revealed, which is the innermost anguish of my being

…any real interest in anything

Location: Milan, Italy Age: 42 hahhahahahha!!!!!

When in a good vibe I always encourage different perspectives, however, as long as you are in love with me, I will no dare to ask! :-)

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Location: Târgu Mureș, Romania Age: 22 in what? what are you doing?

62 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,312 I don’t mean some special interest

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Location: Târgu Mureș, Romania Age: 22 ok :P 63 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,553 Not even ordinary interests, like my husband’s in his work or my son’s in his studies, or Odetta’s domestic cult Location: Târgu Mureș, Romania Age: 22 facebook ?

66 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:16,229 If there was anything... some instinctive love of life...

Location: Bali, Indonesia Age: 25 That text is supposed to be sent it to me ;P 67 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:21,156

64 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,471

...it dried up like a garden where nobody goes

I had no interests

Location: Tokyo, Japan Age: 23 E adesso come potrò sostituirti? Ma forse esiste qualcuno che può sostituirti?

Location: Târgu Mureș, Romania Age: 22 ok 65 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,398 I don’t know how I could lead such an empty life, but I did...

Location: Târgu Mureș, Romania Age: 22 Ok! so what do you want from me?

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68 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:31,555 That emptiness was filled with false, mean values with a hideous load of false ideas.

Location: Barcelona, Spain Age: 26 haha what could be better than being false and mean? :)

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Now I realize it, you’ve filled my life with a total interest

...by leaving me you’re destroying it completely

Location: Arnhem, Netherlands Age: 26 All that in just a blink of an eye?

Location: Barcelona, Spain Age: 26 I am totally not leaving you saying that, the opposite in fact

70 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:50,237 So, in parting, you’re not destroying anything I had before except perhaps my chaste bourgeois reputation. What do I care?

Location: Arnhem, Netherlands Age: 26 Oh my god Karen, you can’t just ask people why they’re white…

71 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:54,917 But what you yourself gave me love in my empty life...

Location: Barcelona, Spain Age: 26 I filled it with a lot of gorgeous and nasty things, but guess I was too trapped on my own thoughts to call it love

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73 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:07,359 By knowing me, you’ve made me a normal girl Location: Barcelona, Spain Age: 26 You are not a normal boy! :-) 74 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,151 You’ve made me find the right solution for my life Location: Barcelona, Spain Age: 26 Happy to read that :-) 75 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:15,791 Before, I didn’t know men, but I was afraid of them Location: Bogotá, Colombia Age: 19 ok

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Your boss has given you this factory. What do you think?

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76 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,639 I loved only my father Location: Bogotá, Colombia Age: 19 Do you want that I do? Jajaja 77 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,838 But now, in leaving me, you’re making me worse than before Location: Bogotá, Colombia Age: 19 Jajaja! OK 78 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,551

Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 37 hey there are you interested to be train and to be owned become my Slave and allow me to control you? i want you to register here XXXX click or copy and paste that link into your browser and make a profile there for free and no membership needs or any charge. and join my private cam search me there, let me know when it’s done so i can guide you.

80 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,076 Before, I didn’t understand this illness, but now I do

Location: Bogotá, Colombia Age: 19 Wherever

Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 37 what do you mean? you just need to register on there and fill the info needs as required to complete and connect to my profile and watch my cam for free

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Now the pain of losing you will cause a relapse more dangerous than the sickness I had before this brief cure your presence brought

Through the love you gave me I’ve become aware of my illness

Did you want that?

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Location: London, United Kingdom

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Age: 37 do it now boi,. just let me know when it’s done. i will be waiting here for you

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Location: Athens, Greece Age: 31 and I thought I was the designer of my own catastrophe :p

Now how can I replace you?

Is there anyone who can?

Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 37 WHAT? 83 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:57,155 I don’t think I can go on living

The destruction you’ve caused in me couldn’t be more complete

86 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,918 You’ve simply destroyed the image I always had of myself Location: Athens, Greece Age: 31 what do you mean by that?

Location: Santiago, Chile Age:28 Me encantaría poder entender lo que me dices pero no se ingles

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Location: Athens, Greece Age: 31 hahah ;)

You must have come here to destroy Location: Athens, Greece Age: 31 haha why do you say that?

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Now I can’t see anything at all that can rebuild my identity

88 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,071 What do you suggest?

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Location: Athens, Greece Age: 31 mou kaneis gia megalo enigma san anthrwpos hahaha 89 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,995 A scandal like death in the eyes of society...

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel Age: 21 Please fill me up with culture :-) 90 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,913 ...a complete loss of myself Location: Tel Aviv, Israel Age: 21 More!

91 00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:14,793 How can this be for a man used to the idea of order of the future and, above all, of ownership?

Location: Olbia, Italy Age: 30 I don’t understand what you mean!

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92 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:32,791 - I’ll carry it - No, I’ll carry it Location: Spain Age: /// What you will carry?

93 00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,151 Then let’s carry it together Location: Spain Age: /// Face?

FACE? 94 00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:56,789 - Have you a tape measure?

- At once, miss Location: Auckland, New Zealand Age: 39 To measure our distance apart?

Nope.

U r not that far!

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95 00:56:29,240 --> 00:56:31,629 Time to eat, miss Location: Auckland, New Zealand Age: 39 Perhaps dogs will love it more. I have surgical blades;) 96 00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:30,790 I can’t help it. It’s beyond my expertise. Sorry Location: Auckland, New Zealand Age: 39 OK! Bye! 97 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,231 Open your fist, miss, please Location: Massa, Age: 53 i’m pasif , whit have you pics of pics nacked. nice to meet you

Location: Massa, Italy Age: 53 Tell me if you want fuck with me or not 99 01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:01,151 I’m not eating Location: Massa, Italy Age: 53 What’s like me???

100 01:03:03,240 --> 01:03:06,073 You must eat. It’s good Location: Massa, Italy Age: 53 ok i love be eat my ass

Italy

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a ass more more deep ,. you, i love see the

I don’t want to

hector , an you??

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Location: Massa, Italy Age: 53 ok by by

How pathetic! I’m a real shit!

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102 01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:12,955

Age: 29 Is this a dialogue or a monologue?

Why don’t you want to eat? It’s good

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Location: New Caledonian, France Age: 27 I am ok to eat…

103 01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:18,668 At least tell us what you want to eat Location: New Caledonian, France Age: 27 dick 104 01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:59,152 We must try to invent new techniques, unrecognizable...

Location: Podernone, Italy Age: 29 We can surely try! Any suggestions?

...make our world unlike any other...

Location: Podernone, Italy Age: 29 A monologue 107 01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:21,630 ...where previous standards don’t apply...

Location: Pordenone, Italy Age: 29 oh, it’s a quote from Teorema 108 01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:25,153 ...which must be new, like the technique

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Location: Pordenone, Italy Age: 29 Thanks for that! :-)

...which are unlike any previous method to avoid childishness, ridicule...

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Location: Podernone, Italy

Nobody must realize that the artist is worthless...

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Location: Napa, USA Age: 51

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nobody must realize that the artist is worthlessI am not sure that I understand what you meanyou do not think that art is worthlessart mattersI hope to hear from youThank you for the communicationwhat art are you working on? what flowers do you like?

I apologize that I do not speak Italianmay you have a productive and inspiring day!

Nobody must ever catch him out as naive

110 01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,710 ...that he’s an abnormal, inferior being...

Location: Maracaibo, Venezuela Age:27 Who? 111 01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:37,793 ...who squirms and twists like a worm to survive Location: Warsaw, Poland Age: 41 And who?

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Location: Napa, USA Age: 51 who is him? naive may not be what it appears to be 113 01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:56,637 Everything must be presented as perfect... ...based on unknown, unquestionable rules...

Location: Napa, USA Age: 51 I like abstract- but you are going to have to be more concrete and ask me direct questions, if you want to communicate and correspond with me.

Do you understand?

114 01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,394 ...like a madman, that’s it Location: Spain Age: /// Maybe!

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115 01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:04,632 Pane after pane, because I can’t correct anything...

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Age: 34 Thats life dude, be cool!

116 01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:07,995 ...and nobody must notice Location: Zagreb, Croatia Age: 47 … What? … :-) 117 01:06:09,480 --> 001:06:15,992 A sign painted on a pane corrects, without soiling it...

Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 34 Ciao! Poetry on Friday?

118 01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,871 ...a sign painted earlier on another pane Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 34 What actually does that imply?

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Care to elaborate more?

119 01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:25,236 But everyone must believe...

Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 34 Well if believe then I believe 120 01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:30,474 ...that it isn’t the trick of an untalented artist, impotent artist Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 34 Am I talking to an impotent artist here?

121 01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:35,998 Not at all. It must look like a sure decision...

Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 34 So who m I talking to? An Italian import to the London town?

122 01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:39,994 ...fearless, lofty and almost arrogant

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Location: London, United Kingdom Age: 34 Um.... These are sometimes exciting and sometimes challenging.

126 01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,792 But nobody must realize...

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Location: Antwerp, Belgium Age: 28 gotta love poetic ramblings :)

Nobody must know that a sign succeeds by chance... is fragile

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Location: Mexico City, Mexico Age: 25 only if it has the right amount of magic itself‌.

124 01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:56,078 That as soon as a sign appears well made, by a miracle...

Location: Antwerp, Belgium Age: 28 and what kind of sign are we talking about?

125 01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:02,994 ...it must be protected, looked after, as in a shrine Location: Antwerp, Belgium Age: 28 or just remembered?

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...that the artist is a poor, trembling idiot, second-rate...

Location: Antwerp, Belgium Age: 28 where’s all this going to?

128 01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:19,316 ...living by chance and risk, in disgrace like a child...

Location: Antwerp, Belgium Age: 28 I think you managed to seduce me, right there, with those words. words are all we have! pick some words! them we can talk about 129 01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:23,315 ...his life reduced to absurd melancholy...

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Location: São João de Meriti, Brazil Age: 43 Go for a walk!

Or a wank!

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Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Age: 25 what do you mean? why did you send this to me? why?

...degraded by the feeling of something lost for ever

Blue reminds me of him

Location: São João de Meriti, Brazil Age: 43 I’m off to the beach, on holidays in Rio now, so can’t console you much

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Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Age: 25 Why blue?

DOWN WITH ALL STATES Location: Vasant Kunj, India Age: 36 Are you in India?

132 01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:30,914 DOWN WITH ALL CHURCHES UP WITH PAINTERS OF...

Location: Kolkata, India Age: 30 Uh!?!

What did you say?

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But obviously blue isn’t enough, it’s only a part

135 01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:56,714 Who can permit me such mutilation, what ideology can justify it?

Location: Marseille, France Age: 47 rephrase for me, please… i am not sure i understand what you mean. maybe i am not meant to…

136 01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:00,356

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Weren’t my first miserable attempts at portraits?

Location: Marseille, France Age: 47 if a sign succeeds by chance, failure in communication ought to be the rule of usual exchange. so i guess it’s ok if i wasn’t graced by chance and didn’t catch your theorematic poetry ;)let’s say you are like the delphi oracle : you don’t mean this or that, you just ”signify” 137 01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:30,832 Look at the state she’s in, eating nettles Location: Magdeburg, Germany Age: 34 BleaH! 138 01:09:31,300 --> 01:09:33,655 Lord, what a scandal Location: Hungary Age:/// What??????????

Location: Caracas, Venezuela Age:25 Cool! Me too!

140 01:20:57,020 --> 01:20:59,090 Which is the road back to Milan?

Location: Berlin, Germany Age: 24 There is no way back to Milano 141 01:21:01,420 --> 01:21:04,014 Turn left, then straight on Location: Age: 47

Song Dao, Thailand

If I turn left and then straight on, I walk with my face against the wall.... bad idea 142 01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:18,430 What would happen to me if...

139 01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:53,433

Location: Age: 47

I don’t smoke

I have no idea, but my mother always told me.

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Song Dao, Thailand

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It’s better to feel sorry for something you did, then to feel sorry for something didn’t do.

143 01:24:20,100 --> 01:24:24,013 ...I stripped myself of everything, gave my factory to the workers?

Location: Song Dao, Thailand Age: 47 Depending what reason you have to something like that.

144 01:29:12,500 --> 01:29:14,092 Let’s go Location: Amsterdam, Netherland Age: 30 Ok! Hi! …but where?

145 01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:21,479

146 01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:23,912 Not tears of sorrow Location: Mombasa, Kenya Age: 30 Tears? ??????

Tears of what my friend?

147 01:31:24,160 --> 01:31:28,870 No, they will be a source...but not a source of suffering Location: Mombasa, Kenya Age: 30 wow... sweet words indeed.

148 01:31:33,480 --> 01:31:36,199 Go away now Location: Genova, Italy Age: 28 Sorry, I’m not interested in chat with far people

Don’t be afraid, I didn’t come to die, but to weep Location: Mombasa, Kenya Age: 30 Lol!You are very much welcome

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Limited Edition Self (Pleasure) Publishing, November 2015

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