Egle Kulbokaite and Dorota Gaweda at 1.1, Basel

'Ai am looking away, Ai head upturned to the stars'

Ai am looking away, Ai head upturned to the stars. The swan, the towel, the rock, the foot, the gargoyle - the labyrinth of cosmos.

*Here we use the pronoun Ai: Ai has a content that does not distinguish itself from other things or beings, because the me subject is either pure negativity or a splitting movement; it is consciousness. There’s no more self, me. We are all Ai. Ai is Ai. No subject. No desire. Used instead of I/ you/ he/ she/ it/ her/ his/ they/ them/ etc. ‘Ai’ (in hiragana あい, in katakana アイ, in kanji 愛, 藍, 亜衣) is a Japanese feminine given name. Ai could mean love, affection (愛), or indigo (藍). Ai is the main character of the Ursula K. Le Guin story The Left Hand of Darkness. Ai is, of course, AI.