{"id":36287,"date":"2023-03-24T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T14:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?p=36287"},"modified":"2023-03-26T21:09:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T19:09:34","slug":"weve-built-something-with-no-name-creating-communities-with-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/weve-built-something-with-no-name-creating-communities-with-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Built Something With No Name, Creating Communities With 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built something with no name,<\/strong> <em>creating communities with strangers<\/em>\r\n\r\nI think\r\nthat I know who I am\r\nbut\r\nI come to a place\r\nand discover myself\r\ndifferently.\r\nI come to a place\r\nand discover\r\nmy voice\r\nmy habits\r\nmy language.\r\nI pronounce words\r\nI\u2019ve never pronounced before.\r\nI learn sentences\r\nand repeat them until they lose their meaning.\r\nI introduce myself to others\r\nand to myself.\r\nHere\r\nI am\r\nsomehow\r\nthe same\r\nand different.\r\nI have a past I can relate to.\r\nI think of the world\r\nin my past\r\nand the places where\r\nI\u2019ve lived\r\nand visited.\r\nI recall my practice\r\ndestroy my memory\r\nand build it again.\r\nWho am I today?\r\nEverything I\u2019ve experienced\r\nand everything I own\r\nhas taken on\r\na new\r\nlight\r\nand smell.\r\nMaybe I am not who I believed I was\r\nmaybe\r\nnot here.\r\nI create myself an identity\r\nto move\r\nthrough\r\nthis new place\r\nand find someone.\r\nI find you.\r\n\r\nI ask:\r\ndo you know who you are?\r\nDo you know what to do?\r\nWould you like to spend time with me?\r\nI listen to your answers.\r\nI think:\r\nI don\u2019t know anything about the world\r\nabout your world.\r\nI ask:\r\nWhat\u2019s your world like?\r\nI imagine your world\r\ncompletely different from mine.\r\nI feel\r\namazed\r\nintrigued\r\nconfused\r\nand try to explain my world\r\nto you\r\nmy world before you\r\nmy world before here\r\nmy world before today.\r\nMy world that isn\u2019t mine\r\nbut here I am\r\ntrying to explain it\r\nbecoming\r\nthe defender\r\nslanderer\r\nembassador\r\npresident\r\nqueen\r\nof my world\r\ntrying to draw a little window\r\nperhaps\r\nfor you\r\nto look through.\r\nThis is my world\r\nI say.\r\nThis is my world\r\nyou say.\r\n\r\nCould we build a world together?\r\nCould we create a common ground?\r\nAre common grounds created or revealed?\r\nAre we under the same conditions?\r\nAre we stopping time and space?\r\nWhat is this that we are doing?\r\n\r\nIn my world\r\nI think of common ground\r\nand think of\r\nresources\r\neconomy\r\nequal opportunities\r\nawareness of difference\r\nfire\r\ndesire\r\nself-governance\r\nautonomy\r\nbut\r\nhere\r\nwe cannot live\r\nunder different rules\r\nthan the ones\r\npre-established\r\nbefore us.\r\nWe cannot decide\r\nto be governed\r\ndifferently.\r\nWe cannot become\r\nautonomous.\r\nWe cannot create\r\nour economy\r\nand decide,\r\ntruly\r\ndecide,\r\ntransform\r\nand rethink\r\nour resources.\r\nWe are under these circumstances\r\nand under these circumstances\r\nwe asked ourselves,\r\ncan we build a common ground\r\nor a world\r\nin which to think\r\nfeel\r\nand live\r\ntogether?\r\n\r\nSometimes\r\nI feel alone.\r\nI don\u2019t want to forget\r\nmy world\r\nnow that I\u2019ve heard about others.\r\nI don\u2019t want to forget\r\nbut here I am\r\nfeeling alone and sad.\r\nAnd I go out\r\nand we find each other\r\nand here we are\r\nfeeling sad\r\ntogether.\r\nWe say:\r\nisn\u2019t that nice?\r\nBeing sad together?\r\nWe say:\r\nthere\u2019s something\r\nabout the first time\r\nthat we feel safe enough\r\nto not be happy.\r\nThere\u2019s something\r\nabout the first time\r\nthat we feel safe enough\r\nto be sad.\r\nThere\u2019s something\r\nabout the first time\r\nthat we feel safe enough\r\nto share\r\nour sadness.\r\nYou don\u2019t know my world\r\nand I don\u2019t know yours\r\nbut we\r\nshare that,\r\nnot knowing\r\nand\r\nbeing here.\r\n\r\nWe start saying\r\nI don\u2019t know.\r\nWe start saying\r\nI don\u2019t agree.\r\nWe start\r\nto do things we\u2019ve never done before\r\nnot like this.\r\nWe have deep talks\r\nand try to explain ourselves.\r\nSometimes our opinions change\r\nsometimes they don\u2019t.\r\nWe start to look at things\r\nin a way that\u2019s not mine\r\nnor yours.\r\n\r\nWe don\u2019t forget about our worlds\r\nbut we see them differently.\r\nWe get closer.\r\nI don\u2019t know who I am\r\nand you don\u2019t know who you are\r\nbut we don\u2019t care\r\nbecause\r\nhere we are\r\nin some time and space\r\nthat we\u2019ve built together.\r\n\r\nWe\r\nare\r\nstill\r\nhere.\r\nAnd it rains\r\nand stops raining.\r\n\r\nAnd it\u2019s Saturday\r\nand we feel hopeful\r\nand it\u2019s Monday\r\nand we feel desolated\r\nand we look for each other.\r\nWe\r\nare\r\nstill\r\nhere\r\nspeaking a language that is not ours\r\nor is it?\r\nA language that we invented together\r\nfor our new habits\r\nfor the places we name after our names\r\nwe share words\r\nto say\r\ndo you want to have some coffee or\r\ngo for a walk?\r\nHow are you doing today?\r\nFeeling better?\r\nFeeling worse?\r\nI\u2019m going to the supermarket\r\ndo you need anything?\r\nLet\u2019s have a tea.\r\nI love this time of the day.\r\nMe too.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ve built something with no name.\r\nWe talk about things in different languages.\r\nWe get lost.\r\nWe take pictures.\r\nWe discover shapes in the trees\r\na mushroom\r\na face\r\na vulva.\r\nWe let ourselves get wet in the rain.\r\nWe dance.\r\nWhat is this world we find ourselves in?\r\nWe\u2019ve built something with no name.\r\n\r\nWe\r\nare\r\nstill\r\nhere.\r\n\r\nWhen we were\r\nlying\r\non the floor\r\nthat exhausting day\r\nthat we had dinner\r\ntogether\r\nand peeled some oranges\r\nand drank wine\r\nand tea\r\nate chips\r\nand moved from one place to the other\r\nand found ourselves surrounded by balloons\r\nthat day that\r\nwe discussed your performances\r\nand laughed\r\nand felt melancholic\r\nbecause we don\u2019t know what will happen\r\nif we\u2019ll see each other again\r\nwhen\r\nhow\r\nif it will be the same\r\nthat day\r\nthat we said:\r\nwe are tired\r\nand then\r\nspent hours\r\ntalking about that book\r\nand the difference\r\nbetween narcissism\r\nand love\r\nand we asked ourselves\r\nwhat\u2019s happening\r\nand slowly\r\nfell asleep on the floor\r\nthat day\r\nyou told us\r\nthat when you love someone\r\nyou love all of them\r\neven if you don\u2019t like some things\r\nyou\r\nstill\r\nlove\r\nall of them.\r\n\r\nSomeday\r\nwill be the day\r\nwhen this\r\nthat we created\r\nthat has no name\r\nwill come to an end.\r\nSomeday\r\nthis world\r\nwill become\r\nour world\r\nthe world that we carry around\r\nand try to explain to new strangers\r\nthat don\u2019t understand us\r\nbut maybe will\r\nsomeday.\r\n\r\nI\u2019m not trying to say\r\nthat this is easy\r\nbecause it isn\u2019t.\r\n\r\nI\u2019m not trying to say\r\nthat we just need time.\r\nI don\u2019t know what we need\r\nto understand each other\r\nor understand that maybe\r\nwe don\u2019t understand each other.\r\n\r\nSometimes we build spaces\r\nthat we cannot name\r\nand we transform ourselves\r\nand we return to our lives\r\nwith other worlds in our bodies."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[36291],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"has-bg-grey","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p class=\"is-size-6\"><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><strong>Giuliana Kiersz<\/strong><\/span> is a Berlin-based writer and artist originally from Buenos Aires. 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