Waiting rooms (first day), Waiting rooms (second day), Waiting rooms (third day), Waiting rooms (fourth day)

Abstract

The article is made up of a series of letters addressed to the other members of the Syros project and composed during a week of co-operation in Greece. These letters, written in concentrated circumstances over a short period of time, aimed to reflect upon another scale of writing – and performing – where the performing is “for life”; where the action is the sort from which there is no turning back. Within this scope, the focus is on moments of decision, and the sorts of spaces and situations – “waiting rooms”, they are referred to here – where a decision is prepared for, or rehearsed. But also rooms that wait for something to happen, for something to “take” place. Writing, here, engages a range of functions: reflecting on and analysing what was done, what did happen, but also acting as a mode of linking, or attending, or waiting upon more contingent possibilities, of what might happen next.