Abstract
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During April and May 2011 Teri Hoskin and Lucas Ihlein carried on a correspondence
inspired by Ihlein's projects Bilateral Kellerberrin (2005) and Bilateral
Petersham (2006) both site-specific residencies blogged live with postevent
book and other productions. 1 The dialogue between Teri and Lucas took
place within the pages of a small (cut down to-fit-in-an-A5 envelope) notebook,
which the two artists posted back and forth. The intention was to facilitate a
slow writing that had to practically consider the limits of pen, paper and letter
post. Initially, the correspondence was intended to follow a strict weekly turnaround,
in orderto facilitate «proper turn-taking.» The reality, however, was that
the book often lingered with one or the other for longer than a week at a time. In
this way the conversation became multi-layered, taking on the shift between
the technics of language, meaning and community.