Statement 2: A Short Tirade

Each day Question Time hold a summit somewhere in Copenhagen- in cafes, street corners, domestic apartments, and train stations – after which a new statement of intent is produced towards an alternative declaration of the way forward on climate change.

Summit Date: 9 December 2009
Attending: David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham, Alex Eisenberg
Location: Kaffe Vinyl
Minute Taker: Rachel Lois Clapham

Wednesday 9^th December 2009

We are different from the other journalists, we will keep it small, pick a card, tomorrow I want to get up, it’s good to get out early, the COP15 questions make me feel ill, I’m an artist and I’m just gonna’ lay out some cards, I am surprised by everyone’s use of rhetoric, cross out Climate Change, replace social sculpture with ‘SOLID’, pick a card, say ‘SOUTH’ instead of COP15, feel the moment of hesitation, I’m really into that, ‘Have you got a spare room?’ is good, saying ‘that’s interesting’ is bad, uhhmmmm is very fertile, let’s keep things about the now, there needs to be more room, I can predict what you will pick next, we really need to be discerning about how and what to use, laying out the cards is good, home is important, these questions are culturally specific, the answers are different, Why do we feel the need to hide some cards?, I am fond of the fronts, we need to hold on to people’s connections with certain words, cross out Copenhagen, ‘How do you feel about the ground?’ really works, take out COP15, we need something non verbal, there is an overload of interview projects here, news-speak is really bad, we are doing what we can, that is where I’m at.