Precarious Passages

Here is PP001, the first of our Precarious Passages, a new series MLW are producing collaboratively. It’s a chain of call and response writing, which tries to process how it feels to live in our current circumstances, at the same time as critiquing and looking forward.

One person begins, they could write all their points at once, or do them in dribs and drabs, before they get sent over to someone else, who reflects on how the points might connect in some way with their life, and then writes their own version. The two pieces then get laid out next to each other in two columns when finished.

The idea is that you combat alienation and atomisation, and help people understand things about themselves, and others, and to realise you’re facing similar things. Social being determines consciousness, and all that.

Here is PP002, which is a collaboration between MLW members on negotiating the fantastically real Stockport Road, the A6, every day into town. The two columns this time mirror the long lines of road in two columns, travelling by bus and bicycle. The piece can be read across, or down and over, in a number of ways. Paper copies are now appearing along the route of the A6…

Here is Precarious Passages 003, a collaboration between Bob Dickinson and David Wilkinson. It is an A4 edition this time. Again, this piece is a call-and-response on the affective dimensions of 21st century life under global capitalism. Look out for paper copies in and around Manchester.