The beginning of MINA did not offer us a clear path. From the outset, we were unsure how to design encounters that were not merely spaces for showing results, but places where processes could circulate. Our concern was how to create conditions for sharing ways of doing, namely aspects of practice that are often overlooked, undervalued, or forgotten, while ensuring that such sharing could matter to everyone involved.
As we began to observe and exchange diagrams emerging from our own practices, we began to recognise a constellation connecting us: beginnings, questions, judgements, memories, resistances. These recurring elements made visible what was already acting within our practices, even if not yet articulated. The diagrams did not function as explanations, but as traces of how we think while doing.
Gradually, these materials became matters to be shared through MINA. They revealed that what brought us together was not a shared method or theme, but an attention to what operates beneath and between practices. Working without a predefined structure allowed us to remain close to these dynamics and to experiment with ways of recording and reflecting that did not aim to stabilise meaning, but to accompany processes in motion, staying attentive to what practices ask of us and to how research emerges through being affected.
and from there unfolds along two paths: language (performance, video, drawing…) and materiality (colour, matter). At the end of the process, with judgment inevitably appears.
The solid and dashed lines suggest that some connections are clear while others are only sensed ----------------------———————------------------------------—————-------------------
Practice is moving within the betweens:
what is desired
what happens
what is remembered
The centre is occupied by concept and idea, a starting point from which to question the world, to test, to perform. The geometric figures drawn around it — triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon — function as possible translations, different ways of materialising the same thought.
