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menog nematerijalnog rada.<br />
Za ovu izložbu Florian Schneider predložio<br />
je tekstove jednog bliskog saradnika Patricea<br />
Lumumbe, prvog premijera nezavisnog<br />
Konga. Taj saradnik bio je francuski<br />
intelektualac Serge Michel, a njegovi<br />
tekstovi objavljeni su u hrvatskom Vjesniku<br />
početkom šezdesetih godina. Ovdje<br />
tekstovi imaju svrhu da učine raspravu<br />
složenijom i da je lansiraju preko evropskih<br />
granica – postkolonijalna stvarnost ne<br />
može se zamisliti, a da se ne uzme u obzir<br />
istorija njenih kolaboracija i saučesništava.<br />
U tom kontekstu, Serge Michel bio je<br />
izuzetak.<br />
Oba teksta artikulišu moguću zajedničku<br />
osnovu za ponovno sagleda<strong>van</strong>je današnjih<br />
pejzaža kolaboracije, i oba nude podlogu za<br />
mjerenje njenog istorijskog značaja i genealogije.<br />
Oni služe kao matrica za početak<br />
proširene rasprave o samim silama koje<br />
oblikuju te pejzaže – mrežama, vezama<br />
i društvenim ekonomijama današnjice.<br />
Ta rasprava neće samo dotaknuti, nego i<br />
zauzeti samu crtu koja razdvaja i povezuje<br />
politiku i etiku s estetikom, ako se ova<br />
posljednja shvati u širem smislu.<br />
Pitanje kolaboracije tiče se mogućnosti i<br />
ograničenja individualnog i kolektivnog<br />
djelo<strong>van</strong>ja u određenim situacijama, što<br />
bi se, takođe, moglo nazvati „pozadinskim<br />
uslovima“ ili naprosto skupom datih<br />
činjenica koje definišu neku situaciju<br />
i koje se prepoznaju kao takve. Svaka<br />
situacija postavlja se kao pitanje o tome<br />
kako tretirati zadate parametre onoga što<br />
je već prisutno kao pozadina u tom smislu.<br />
Svaka pozicija aktera u odnosu na bilo koju<br />
pozadinu uvijek se kreće između dvaju<br />
polova negacije ili afirmacije, te se problematizuje<br />
kroz permanentne proračune<br />
mogućnosti, prilika, margina i saučesništva<br />
te suoča<strong>van</strong>je s kontradikcijama. To nije<br />
samo pitanje racionalnih procjena, nego je<br />
rary immaterial labour.<br />
For the exhibition, Florian Schneider has<br />
suggested displaying the texts of a close<br />
associate of Patrice Lumumba, the first<br />
prime minister of the independent Congo.<br />
This associate is the French intellectual<br />
Serge Michel, whose texts appeared in the<br />
Croatian newspaper Vjesnik in the early<br />
60s. They are intended here to complicate<br />
the debate <strong>and</strong> take it beyond European<br />
boundaries – a post-colonial reality cannot<br />
be conceived without taking the history<br />
of its collaborations <strong>and</strong> complicities into<br />
account. Serge Michel, in this context, was<br />
an exception.<br />
Both texts articulate a possible common<br />
ground <strong>for</strong> rethinking the l<strong>and</strong>scapes of<br />
collaboration today, <strong>and</strong> both provide a foil<br />
against which one can begin to measure its<br />
historical significance <strong>and</strong> genealogy. They<br />
serve as a blueprint <strong>for</strong> the beginning of<br />
an extended discussion that investigates<br />
the very <strong>for</strong>ces that shape those l<strong>and</strong>scapes<br />
- the networks, alignments <strong>and</strong><br />
social economies of the present day. This<br />
discussion is necessarily one that not<br />
only traverses, but inhabits the line that<br />
separates <strong>and</strong> binds politics <strong>and</strong> ethics to<br />
aesthetics, if the latter is understood in its<br />
wider sense.<br />
The question of collaboration touches<br />
upon the possibilities <strong>and</strong> limitations of<br />
individual <strong>and</strong> collective agency in given<br />
situations, what might generally also be<br />
called the ‘background conditions’, or<br />
simply, a set of given facts which define a<br />
situation <strong>and</strong> are acknowledged as such.<br />
Any situation poses itself as a question of<br />
how to deal with the parameters set by<br />
what is already there as a background in<br />
this sense. Any actor’s position in relation<br />
to any background always moves between<br />
the two poles of negation or affirmation,<br />
<strong>and</strong> is problematized by permanent