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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

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