do all four feet of a pantomime horse ever leave the ground at the same time?
with thanks to Darko Calina, Atimanyu Vashishth, Farah Aly, Ana Reyes Cid, Sally Stott, Ryan Dillon, Clive Menzies, Christian Harris, Renate Lurdesa Baumane, Isabel Su Yi Tan, Stuart Croxford, Francesco Zuddas, Anna Lisa Reynolds, Simine Marine, Jennifer May Saxty, Fearghus Raftery, Harriet Jennings, Anna Chantarasak, Ka Siu Lam, Roberta Jenkins, Eleanor Dale, Karen Tong, Hazel Xing, Marie
with thanks to Ana Virginia Reyes Cid, Farah Aly, Atimanyu Vashishth, Al Cocks, Giulia Rosa, Seonwoo Kim, Abhishek Wagle, Ka Siu Lam, Renate Lurdesa Baumane, Darko Calina
with thanks to Leslaw Skrzypiec, Ben Ibbotson, Violet Yue Cao, Sally Stott, Ana Virginia Reyes Cid, Farah Aly, Atimanyu Vashishth, Adithya David Premraj, Amelie Kondzot, Dariya Cheremisina, Davide Sacconi, Ka Siu Lam, Al Cocks, Luisa Pires, Darko Calina, Nazar Efendiev, Roberta Jenkins, Irenee Scalbert, Gayatri Nilesh Sinai Salkar
Rain by Francis Ponge
translated by Joshua Corey and Jean-Luc Garneau
The rain, in the backyard where I watch it fall, comes down at different rates. In the center a fine discontinuous curtain — or network — falls implacably and yet gently in drops that are probably quite light; a strengthless sempiternal precipitation, an intense fraction of the atmosphere at its purest. A little distance from the walls to the right and left plunk heavier drops, one by one. Here they seem about the size of grains of wheat, the size of a pea, while elsewhere they are big as marbles. Along gutters and window frames the rain runs horizontally, while depending from the same obstacles it hangs like individually wrapped candies. Along the entire surface of a little zinc roof under my eyes it trickles in a very thin sheet, a moiré pattern formed by the varying currents created by the imperceptible bumps and undulations of the surface. From the gutter it flows with the restraint of a shallow creek until it tumbles out into a perfectly vertical net, rather imperfectly braided, all the way to the ground where it breaks and sparkles into brilliant needles.
Each of its forms has its particular allure and corresponds to a particular patter. Together they share the intensity of a complex mechanism as precise as it is dangerous, like a steam-powered clock whose spring is wound by the force of the precipitation.
The ringing on the ground of the vertical trickles, the glug-glug of the gutters, the miniscule strikes of the gong multiply and resonate all at once in a concert without monotony, and not without a certain delicacy.
Once the spring unwinds itself certain wheels go on turning for a while, more and more slowly, until the whole mechanism comes to a stop. It all vanishes with the sun: when it finally reappears, the brilliant apparatus evaporates. It has rained.
( many thanks to Irenee Scalbert)
With thanks to Giulia Rosa, Andrea Agostini, Laetitia Chauveau, Abhishek Wagle, Luca Haberstock De Carvalho, Tom Parkes, Ben Ibbotson, Bert Walker, Colin Prendergast, Leslaw Skrzypiec, Mariusz Stawiarski, Gayatri Nilesh Sinai Salkar, Manijeh Verghese,Emma Magnusson, Daniel Swarovski.
with thanks to with thanks to Reishin Kunishima Watabe, Gary Woodley, Emma Magnusson, Armaan Bansal, James Emery, Colin Prendergast, Leslaw Skrzypiec, Mariusz Stawiarski, Lukasz Jamula, Gregory Korcel, Gayatri Nilesh Sinai Salkar, Tom Parkes, Will Fausset, Bill Hudson, Clive Menzies, Giulia Rosa, Andrea Agostina, Abhishek Wagle, Laetitia Chauveau, Ben Kahn, Alex and Boris Nikolov, Luisa Pires, Ben Ibbotson, Bert Walker, Ana Virginia Reyes Cid, Farah Aly, Lea Lahaj, Leela Keshav, Ka Siu Lam, Seonwoo Kim, Dabin Lee, Renate Lurdesa Baumane, Sebastian Wyatt
* Mansfield Road audio – James Emery
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot
with thanks to Leela Keshav, Vang Anh Tran, Hafsa Syed, Reishin Kunishima Watabe, Hilda Bruges, Kirstin Bruges, Sally Stott, Dariya Cheremisina, Yanhua Shen, Siqi Zhao, Haomiao Zhai, Hailey Peixuan Zhang, Janghee Lee, Ka Siu Lam, Raha Farazmand, Ben Kahn, Hugo Ars, Armaan, Bansal, Gayatri Nilesh Sinai Salkar, Colin Prendergast, Leslaw Skrzypiec, Photios Demetriou, Tom Parkes, Selina Zhang, Ben Ibbotson, Mark Morris, Luisa Pires, Gary Woodley, Giulia Rosa, Will Fausset, Jaxon Kelly
ALL WELCOME
with thanks to Gary Woodley, Luisa Pires, Alex Bellamy, Joana Palma, Yulia Yuan, Emma Lobato, Dariya Cheremisina, Alexia Koch, Xue Ma Qi, Madeleine Griffiths, Zhi Wee Lee, Violet Yue Cao, Ben Kahn, Tanja Siems. Theo Lorenz, Ana Virginia Reyes Cid, Farah Aly, Daniel Koroma, Colin Prendergast, Leslaw Skrzypiec, Sally Stott, Reishin Kunishima Watabe
with thanks to Luisa Pires, Madeleine Griffiths, Zhi Wee Lee, Violet Yue Cao, Dariya Cheremisina, Lea Lahaj, Reishin Kunishima Watabe, Ben Khan, Kai Fung Kelvin Chan, Gayatri Nilesh Sinai Salkar, Ana Virginia Reyes Cid, Farah Aly, Artemis Morgan, Yasemin Buyurgan, Tom Parkes, Selina Zhang, Daniel Koroma, Rosy Tam, Yi Huang, Spike Chen, Sharon Fung, Siqi Zhao, Aayat Jariwala, Haomiao Zhai, Yanhua Shen, Alex Lorente, Photios Demetriou, Mariusz Stawiarski, Leszek Skrzypiec
with thanks to Lea Lahaj, Rosy Tam, Yi Huang, Spike Chen, Sharon Fung, Sheer Gritzerstein, Leo Sun, Gayatri Nilesh Sinai Salkar, Seonwoo Kim, Luisa Pires, Kai Fung Kelvin Chan, Lin He, Chufan Chen, Madeleine Liyen Ang Griffiths, Photios Demetriou, Lukasz Jamula, Gregory Korcel, Leszek Skrzypiec, Stuart Croxford, Mariusz Stawiarski, Caterina Pereira, Ebere Nwosu
* photos by Zhuo (Spike) Chen