SUB 1
SUB 2
SUB 4
SUB 5
SUB 6
SUB 7
congregate on The 4th Floor of The Ben Pimlott building at 8.15pm on the 11th of July 2024 after wandering through the graduate exhibition spaces. They spend 5 minutes examining the work on show and begin to walk around BIN 1. SUB 7 chooses not to join and looks blankly out of the window at the clock. SUB 6 looks at the art.

A few minutes passes and the numbers becomes audible.

SUB 3 drags a brickbriefcase up starewell with some struggle and enters the room.

[SUBS begin to walk in a circle]

SUB 1 - CIRCULATE ..

SUB 2 - PERCOLATE?

SUB 1 - RUMINATE

SUB 1 - DILATE

SUB 2 - [emphatically] But we aren’t going anywhere?

SUB 3 [tanoi] - ALL SUBS MUST BE GOING SOMEWHERE

SUB 4 - KEEP GOING!

SUB 1 - JUST WAIT… it’s iterative in its process

SUB 2 - IRRITATIVE?

SUB 1 - No … iterative.. A series of steps that you repeat, tweaking and improving your product with each cycle.

Until optimum processing power is attained

SUB 2 - well then let’s iterate our way there … but mind the cables.

SUB 1 - [stops and stares] It’s Feeling a bit austere in here.

SUB 2 - [still moving/ frantic] But I can hear the other room!

SUB 3 - [tanoi] NOOO EEENTRY, STEP AWAY FROM THE DOOR, LEGAL ACTION WILL BE TAKEN

SUB 1 - [vacant/ depressed] … You have to wait and pay your dues.

SUB 2 - [emphatically] BUT TO WHO?!

SUB 1 - [stressed] Just keep walking and don’t say anything.

[SUBS circulate some more]

SUB 1 - SUB7 looks a bit not quite there anymore.. What’s wrong with her .. looking somewhat .. vacant

SUB 2 - [wryly] she’s been professionally developed

SUB 1 .... A very expensive process..

SUB 2 - But as yet Unfinished

SUB 1 - A bit smudged

Sub 1 - Happens in Oversized tailoring , always overthinking

Suited for the next step towards Collapse

A stumble into the beyond. Respect

SUB 2 - But it's becoming increasingly difficult to focus

SUB 1 - [screamed] 6492481!

SUB 2 - What have we spent in this time space situation …Of what?

SUB 1 - Aspiration …Deflation?

SUB 2 - Move away

SUB 1 - … Withdrawn?

SUB 2 - No more

SUB 1 - Education

SUB 2 - In what?

SUB 1 - High taxation

SUB 2 - What did it cost?

SUB 1 - 4 Years, 3 jobs, 2 boyfriends and a last attempt at The Benefit System.
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[PAUSE, THEN CIRCULATE SOME MORE]

SUB 1 - The process is beginning to process

SUB 3 [tanoi] - ENJOY OUR NEW MOOD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

SUB 1 - Keep it together, gather all the bits,

SUB 2 - Thanks K, Glad someone is

SUB 1 - She always is!

[Pause, walk]

SUB 1 - In an era of downward mobility

Attempt to live conjunctively

Spiral outwards

Into the other room

But the numbers become deafening

Immediately after the END

SUB 7 - Je suis passe!

[BIG grin!]

[Pause]

SUB 1 - I think SUB 78 would have done well, if she could have you know, gone

SUB 2 - But there wasn't enough Time and very little space

Sub 1 - A life which consumes decades, decision made young. And what are you do if you get pregnant

SUB 2 - Doubt that will happen to us

It's so quantitatively easy.

SUB 1 - Quantitatively yess,

SUB 1 - Try to move.. Forward

SUB 2 - Now that’s just a fallacy

SUB 1 - Go Around, Stuck on a loop

Of our bad infinity

SUB 3 [Tanoi] - FINANCIALIZE YOUR SERVICES
Sub 1 - Financialize your Services
Sub 2 - Financialize your Services

SUB 3 [Tanoi] - COMPETE WITHIN PRECARITY

SUB 3 [Tanoi]- SECURITIZE YOUR POSITION
Sub 1 - Securitize your position!
Sub 2 - Securitize your position!

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SUB 1 - Where’s the smoker information?

SUB3 [tanoi] SMOKER INFORMATION!

SUB 5 - (goth at the window/ sounding dejected) We Could do with a cigarette?

SUB 1 - cancerously old fashioned

SUB 6 - Sorry only got a vape

[SUB6 hands out some vapes]

Got to Go

Remember

SUB 1 - What you said?

SUB 4 - Glamourise!

A gaffa taped boot

SUB 1 - Fucking fantasise!

SUB 2 - Improve yourself; the outside condition is far too threatening to tackle

SUB 3 [tanoi] - APATHETIC CENSOR

SUB 1 - Steady Pace Mind Wins dead fish
[SUB 2 - where’s my dead fish?]

Too messy a scenario
Your losing it
Your floundering!
SUB 2 - Your floundering!
SUB 3 - Your floundering!

SUB 1 - Fuck the fish

SUB 2 - Lose the knickers

SUB 1 - I cant!
SUB 2 - I CANT
SUB 5 - I CANT

SUB 1 - Keep Going
SUB 3 [tanoi] - KEEP GOING

SUB 1 - Wrapping it up
In this reality construct

SUB 2 - Get with it

SUB 3 [tanoi]- REALISE THE MANIA

SUB 1 - Learn to enjoy it

SUB 2 - Go round another round

SUB 1 -…. It’s beginning to degrade

SUB 1 - It’s definitely altering this state, we beginning to go somewhere

SUB 1 -Keep coming

Back Into the room

SUB 3 [tanoi] - LISTEN TO EVERYTHING IN THE ROOM

Sub 1 - Hyberbolic state, folding back in on itself,

SUB 2 - Streaming away trying to grasp it when it happens, re-document after the fact

SUB 1 - Photocopy the previous time
And do it again

SUB 3 [TANOI] - DO IT AGAIN

SUB 1 - Actually that's all material

SUB 2 - Well done
There you go, they look like took ages Katie
But blurry no?

When was that? Through the Guinness glass

SUB 1 - Hard to remember

SUB 2 - Over! Under

SUB 1 - Bring the NRG!

SUB 1 - Can’t stop

SUB 3 [TANOI] - (curt/ staccato) DON’T STOP

SUB 2 - WON’T STOP

SUB 1 - Thinking (.. drinking)

SUB 1 - It’s not about time

SUB 2 - It’s about time

SUB 1 - It’s not about time
SUB 1 - The time to afford the time to do
To do it
To afford it.
… That’s the talent

SUB 2 - Are you doing it

SUB 1 - Doubt it

SUB 2 - But its costlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

SUB 1 - 155

Two two twentytwo

Pure buzzeee, ye know in out, in out, again! Up down. So withdrawn!

SUB 5 - (screamed) I’m not depressed, I’m compressed

SUB 2 - Can you hear
….Your number?


SUB 1 - [stressed but monotone] by pseudo-bureaucratic meta systems which make no allowance for even their own imperfections.

I am not an automaton.

SUB 3 [tanoi] - MY MIASMA

SUB 2 - Best just DISENGAGE.

SUB 1 - But yet her wide wet corridors provide cavernous escape, the dim orange lights of the ‘old bit’ warm the mood, the same Alanis Morissette CD has been playing over the tinny tanoi overdubbed with public information broadcast since the mid 90s providing an ironic sense of stability. Not quite chromed metal window sills are always cold and when breathed upon the slight imperfections in the glass become visible, condensation highlighting the miniature re-bar grids caught within. Mirrored in varying dimensions across this structure the caging provides a feeling of safety.

SUB 2 - Here you, Get back to the present , attempt to live it conjunctively remember remember
Right here and Right now!

SUB 1 - But try to counter it with mediation

SUB 7 - and some good shoes!

SUB 2 - Because what's left?

SUB 1 - Us!

SUB 1 - how do I know I exist? She asks, pauses then replies … because of you.

SUB 2 - Enthused Sincerity is out, get with the context.

SUB 1 - Uhh BUT what a beautiful stairwell.

SUB 2 - Collectivise!

SUB 3 [tanoi] INCENTIVISE

SUB 2 - SUBLIMATE

SUB 1 - just Again Dilate

SUB 3 [TANOI] - COLLATE ALL YOUR PAPERS

SUB 2 - it’s radically hopeless,

SUB 1 - or hopelessly radical

SUB 1 - Clip clop clop

SUB 3 [tanoi] - SPECULATIVELY FICTIONAL

SUB 2 - Away
SUB 5 - AWAY
SUB4 - AWAY

SUB 1 - It’s A New Day

SUB 1 - What about you SUB2 would, bet your time on this circulation or would you rather be peripheral?

Exist as Live Rats, living in the suburban subterrain? The Cultural crawl space. Getting ever smaller.

SUB 2 - No , Woolich. 55 sqaure foot.

SUB 1 - Nice move. Doing something.

SUB 2- Fuckign trundeling ...Alone.

SUB 1 - No you’ve got us!

SUB 2 - But why were you doing, what’s the it?

Were you not absent?

SUB 1 - gawd the Endless critique!

SUB 2 - But Because you can
It’s a luxurious privilege

SUB 2 - SUB 78 couldn’t

But I don’t know if I can

SUB 1 - Yes you can

Con-fi-dence
Like selected people are born with.

SUB 2 - It’s obviously more than that…Just get it together together together

SUB 1 - Sans Cap-i-tal

Playfully

SUB 2 - It’s getting louder now

Fuller in the room

SUB 1 - Maria is that you?

SUB 3 [tanoi] SHES STILL STUCK IN THE BIN

SUB 1 - Must get her out

To where, .. here?!

SUB 1 - No more dissociation from the situation

SUB 2 - We are very nearly there

SUB 3 [tanoi] - ONE MORE REPETITION

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[Keep walking until hear maria coming in at the end ]

SUB 1 - Finding it a bit abrasive now. But There you go we are used to it.

SUB 2 - Audible at last
Can just about pick it out!

SUB 1 - Your numbers!

JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE WAITING

(PAUSE)

You've got it babe!

[23!]

[ALL SUBS/ CROWD SCREAM] - BINGO!