Place Holder

“Place Holder” is the aftermath of a peripatetic residency, the attempt of a small group to hold still what would otherwise slip away: the conversations that fill in the space between us during moments of rest, after dinner, on the couch, over some wine.

Between artist book and collective essay, “Place Holder” is a working process between eleven artists and researchers conducted through a series of thematic conversations reflecting on their participation in the Caravan residency, which brought the group variously to Alexandria (Egypt), Athens (Greece), Biella (Italy), Brussels (Belgium), Marseilles (France), and Nicosia (Cyprus) over the course of four months at the beginning of 2022.

The texts presented in “Place Holder” are in an unresolved form, neither a raw transcription nor an edited script. While they have been edited for clarity and to reduce repetition, certain errors of the machine transcription and the quirks of spoken language have been left in place to best reflect the literary quality of speech.