A Slightly Modified 12×12 Interview Game
On the 25th and 26th of August, 2006, we organized one of our interview games, based on the number 12 and around issues to do with non- or anti-institutional self-organized collaborative structures. The idea was to create a kind of pressure cooker situation where 12 contributors – friends and allies, groups and collectives we know and/or have worked with – were to answer 12 questions in 12 minutes. The 12 interviews were to take place over a period of 12 consecutive hours. The questions were kept practical and straight-forward to the point of being almost naïve, though we were careful to keep the one minute answering time virtually impossible to stick to so that the answers would be immediate and direct, somewhat stuttered and stumbled, and function as entry points into the various practices of our interviewees radically different from the conventional biographical notes you find in catalogues and conventional press material. Relevant references, links to websites and other details would be given in the printed transcripts of the text.
As we started out, it soon became clear to us that the interviews would take a lot longer than we anticipated. Additionally, some people couldn’t make it in the end, and some we missed due to interviews running over time, etc. In the end, 7 people, including ourselves, from 5 different groups took part in the game which started 11:00 pm on August the 25th and finished about 11.40 am on the 26th. This text comprises a series of extracts, 5 moments, from the interview game along with links to relevant project and group websites. We hope you will find it as interesting as we did.
You can download a pdf of the text, which was published in ArtQuest 5, in the library section of this website or by following this link.
