The Manifesto

What happens when a gaze
does not ask for consent
and does not seek belonging?

Is a gesture possible
that does not become organization,
movement,
representation?

What remains
when there are no leaders,
spokespersons,
programs
to rely on?

Can an act exist
that is born individual
and does not ask to become collective?

The gaze:
do we possess it
or do we exercise it?

Is seeing
truly neutral?

Or does every gaze
produce a consequence
even when it does not admit it?

What happens
when the gaze fails?

At what point
does the other cease to be other
and become function,
number,
figure?

When this passage occurs,
who remains responsible?

Is it possible that everything begins
before action,
before words,
in the way one looks?

Can a gesture
stop this passage
without intervening,
without explaining,
without convincing?

Can attention
be a form of resistance?

Can a sign
exist
without communicating an identity?

Can it make visible
a choice
without representing it?

Does someone who uses a sign
speak on behalf of something
or only testify
to their own way of being?

When a gesture
becomes spectacle,
what does it lose?

And when it remains gesture,
what does it preserve?

Is it necessary to promise transformations
to assume responsibility?

Is it possible to not guarantee results
and still remain exposed?

Do I see the other
or do I project?

And if this question
had no answer,
how long can I stay?