Uncertain fragments

The article revisits notes, thoughts and texts related to the notion of the “open work”, as these were gathered by its author during the project Syros: a bet on the potentiality of cooperation (Syros, July ’13). It presents a historical review of the way the term has been discussed and practiced in performance contexts, and aims towards a questioning of its use and an attempt to detect effective understandings of it today, arriving at the notion of “differentiation” as discussed by Bojana Cvejić and Ana Vujanović (2005). At the same time, the text constitutes a writing experiment that applies the rules of languages written from right to left to the English language, in order to delve even deeper into possible suggestions of the “open” through a practice-led research approach.