Thanks Patrick,
wondering how it travels.
I found the whole idea of working on riddles very intriguing. The fact that
they are written to include specific local details / knowledge
as generic city subjects but yet concern themselves as do all riddles with
curiosity and engagement sufficient to generate 'false' trails took the
writing further.
The crowd who tried to solve them for the first time got into animated and
often hilarious conversations around the texts, working together to try and
figure the 'gettable' subject. But hopefully that brings an added
concentration on particularities of the writing, leading to multiple
interpretations, a sense of hinge between the open and the closed
engagement.
We arrived in Exeter with only a vague notion. Visiting the actual
manuscript of the Exeter Book providing an extraordinary and somewhat
Byzantine research experience. The guardian / Librarian was quite unhelpful
at first. Further we researched the specific sites as part of the residency
(4 days total), wrote the riddles, made the web site and launched it through
business cards handed out in the city identifying ourselves as 'municipal
riddlers' whilst tagging the sites as 'missing riddles' all during that
4-day timeframe. The fact that we made 2 other projects in that timeframe to
boot gave the writing an added urgency. The final riddle is still being
written.
Wld love any feedback as to how they 'read' here?
love and love
cris
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