Keep on asking, betting, cooperating: Introduction

The editorial note unfolds the main aims and the particular working conditions of the project that has led to the specific publication. Syros: a bet on the potentiality of cooperation (2013) was organized as a co-writing encounter among performance artists and theorists from all over Europe. During an eight-days long writing residency the participants shared their individual topics of interest regarding contemporary performance as well as their distinct writing practices. Following that process, they also suggested an alternative mode for the creators of this publication, based not on a common topic (as is often the case) but on the “topos”, the place of encounter of its writers, which is seen as a “bet on the potentiality of cooperation” (Laermans).