Easy to substitute one thing for another OR just what you want from a neo-liberal utopia OR the world may not make sense OR you may not be able to control your life (or even the world) BUT AT LEAST we can get our eggs the way we want. Towards the end of last spring I hosted an egg breakfast for a dozen artists and their guests. I brought the basics (eggs, coffee & toast) and encouraged individuals to bring their favourite extras. I asked participants to pair up and cook each others' eggs properly. There were only two hot plates so each pair had to perform for the attendant group. I busied myself recording the ensuing negotiations and ephemeral productions on a large board. Later I transcribed the data recorded at the event into a series of drawings. An egg breakfast occurring in an art context produces something more than just dietary sustenance. What exactly, is not entirely clear. Is it enough that a group of artist gather in a space and make something? Does the negotiating process offer new understanding? Does choice even remotely resemble freedom, AND can you ever really get what you want!? Did something critical happen, or was it a mere ritual enacted in a convivial environment? Each participant brought a different perspective and, literally, ingredient to the table. But what did they take away? Do eggs look any different now? Did this encounter, staged in quotidian form, create enough of a roadblock to cause a real rethink? And supposing something of substance did happen, can it be shared with an outside audience? The drawings, with their earnest yet inadequate mimesis, suggest an exact fantasy of speculative research. They graph with precision the flickering traces of a momentary event-space without succumbing to the fantasy of accuracy. The drawings, like the event itself, should be seen as a way of structuring non-literal knowledge, of modelling the issues of a social and discursive space. Use them like scopes to view the distinctions of time, place, person, thought, action as realigned around an egg yolk. In them I ask you to look for evidence of the constituent subjectivities, and perhaps even to discover, projected on these humble eggs, a specific mental+corporeal+social agency. -dc view documentation