Platform for (un)Solicited Research and Advice

Dear Friends,

Since we will meet next Wednesday and as a way of creating common ground between us, I would like to propose a very simple though intense game.

1- Could you make the biggest list of fundamental questions that you need to find an answer to?

Let me rephrase it (adding focus): Which are the questions that you really feel should be solved in order to reach a sense of wide contact with the world?

Another rephrasing: As participant of the world who is in a constant interchange within its particles, there are a lot of incomprehensible things, plenty of gaps, hundreds of misunderstandings, infinite false starts and mistakes, seems most of this communication is just guessing a going with the flow. Which are the doubts and questions that if solved would fill up that gap?

Eager to meet you,

Erick

My work is an investigation on the concept of edition. I concentrate on the mechanisms that define, value, order, classify, select, reproduce and distribute images to create social, cultural, political and economical discourses in contemporary societies. The way the figure of edition determines the way we define and approach the world and regulates the different forces within groups of people. How images acquire certain value? Which images should be reproduced? Which are the reasons to reproduce those images? Which are the technical procedures and mediums used to reinforce their messages? Which are

the different weights of images in different supports? Who makes the selection in public printing to reproduce an image? In which ways distribution is part of printing process?

Erick Beltrán

(México D.F. 19 de Febrero de 1974)