write 2 me about whatever you want — Jule Köpke

write 2 me about whatever you want is an attempt to take the concept of friendship seriously in its everydayness in order to translate questions of political resilience, knowledge transfer and social reproductive practices into dialogues. A search for traces that can capture the intimacy between friends and lovers, gossip, but also the

political resistance that arises through these relationships.

By looking at friendships in a capitalist world where time and capacity for friendships are increasingly unevenly distributed and opportunities for dialogue are curtailed, it attempts to make connections between historical developments in the perception of female and queer relationships in particular, activist work and questions of labour and knowledge production.

The spatial installation consists of three dialogues that are built up through latex casts of the exhibition and work space itself, a kitchen table as a direct dialogue space and a publication as a disclosure of research processes.

Cup casts and a puddle of latex lie on the table- remnants of a meeting. In it a projection of a conversation - an excerpt from a friendship, a conflict - perhaps -, a precise knowledge of the other. They speak of mutual responsibility, the possibility of learning and, above all, of criticizing others with mutual benevolence, resources, reminders and apologies.

A collection of letters and texts by authors such as Silvia Federici, Hélène Cixous, The Invisible Committee and Virginia Woolf form the historical and textual basis for a dialogue created in the accompanying publication, in collaboration with Neele Seidel, which reflects an unfinished and constantly evolving protocol of the research.