What do you mean ending?! We've only just begun. I'm glad that we have all this material. Writings, drawings, maps,
photos, videos, a website, a future book and maybe even a movie? When my
memory fails me, I will use these tools to activate and fulfill the
void. Let's make promise. And, let's promise to keep it.'m leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again. Kiss
me and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me in your
arms, don't let me go.The echo of this experience will be a wild vibration. May this vibration never stop. Vibrate forever. Forever vibrate. Fear of ending could be paralysing. Fear of unending could also be paralysing. Find other people with the same names of the people you've met in the residency and spend time with them.3. Leave mentally with some days before the last day and at the end you’ll have only the body left.4. Let the faith choose the ending. Embrace any ending. Amor fati. Dream about an ideal residency and when you wake up, write a down the dream. Make a presentation of all the things you have collected at the residency, like a quick show of the leftovers. 2.think on how to continue. Make an object out of it. remember that even when you are separated, walking
alone, away from the collective, the collective is still continuing in a
different way, and with a larger distance, but still happening. Make a portrait of each of the members. a special one. End with a party. Enjoy each other. You don't know when you'll meet again. Write a collective left-overs list with things you didn't have time
to do but you would have liked to and a collective wish-list for the
future. Discuss the future, throw ideas, desires, fantasies, take some
decisions, set some goals while you are still together sharing time and
space, it's easier now. Take care of the space that hosted you. 5. Short goodbyes are the best. You're gonna meet again. 1. don't spend too long on farewells, every ending is the beginning of something else. share honnest feedback between the group, you know each other much better now - you're a constellation. 3. share wishes for the future without too many expectations, but still do it. 4.
don't worry too much with the things you wanted to do or say but you
didn't - you have shared much more than you can possibly imagine. 5.
try to gather the stuff you did without the expectation of collecting
every little thing, but look at the traces that were left behind -
things can continue in many different ways. 1. Don't consider it an ending, consider it an expansion. Do not bury it at the back of your wardrobe. Do not let it drown in a
sea of other projects. Do not let time fade everything. Cherish it and carry it through to your future history. Give your self time to heal the wounds of your risk. Let this experience change and inform the next collective residency you enter into. Leave with a bit of infection and contamination. Any end can be seen as a commencement. No beginning no ending just transitions that follow one another. Or a stratification of openings and abandonments. 3. Focus on the preciousness of the situation and of the people whom
inhabited it; on the inherent multiplicity and ambivalence of the
experiences; on what has been touched, affected, shifted in yourself; on
what has been learned and unlearned; on what you don't know anymore. Trust then memory or oblivion. To close down is to take care of, to honor history. The how is another point. On the necessity to see what an END means to you. ...........
