nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

neighbourhoods and collectives, relationships, bodies. In-between: not beingable to leave the space sometimes, bringing the square to our entire daily lives.It was important to be able to share the complexity of what it means for thebody to be in constant movement. The square gave a lot, but it also required alot of energy from us. It implied a constant process of questioning when youwhere in it, but also when due to everyday responsibilities, obligations, work,family or other situations you couldn’t make it to be there. To be able to makethese experiences common and to think out loud about these intensities andspeeds, allowed us to experience in a lighter and shared way the possible contradictionsthat emerge when “making revolution”.doing things that allow you to do other things:projecting, envisioning the futureIn September 2011, in the midst of taking to and inhabiting the streets, an invitationarrived to write an article about Francesc Tosquelles 9 and, simultaneously,we applied for a public grant to undertake research for the article. In ashort amount of time, and in a spontaneous and unexpected way, we enteredinto a new dynamic. Through the grant and its requirements, new relationshipswere opened up that created new rhythms and criteria, new meetingspaces and paths of communication, and a different classification of what wasurgent and what was a priority. We began to administer money and makedeadlines, to travel together, do interviews and get excited by the discoveryof new topics and new complicities, to hand in reports and to write togetherover prolonged periods. It was a moment of intense creation, living intermittentlybetween enthusiasm and joyful passions, and between deadline anddeadline. We had to begin to reflect not only on the question of the contentsof the research, but also the how and the why of our doing it.In this new period of relations with institutional spaces and, particularly,having received a grant, we saw ourselves committed to some activities thatprobably would not have interested us originally, or at least not at that point.In order to receive the money from the grant we had to present the first resultsof the research. But we were not yet ready for presentations. We foundourselves in a moment of exploration where our desires and energies focusedon realising some trips to meet people who had known Tosquelles. Even so, inorder to finance the trips and access certain material we required money, andthat money was conditioned by the realisation of concrete products, such asthe presentation “Francesc Tosquelles: creative processes and clinical practices”,10 and the creation of a website for the material gathered. What manifesteditself at this point as process needed to demonstrate the obligatory capacity to48