the end of the cold season

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The cold season is that time when the snow may still be around but melting at the foothills. It is that time when you are unclothed one morning and putting wood in the fire pit the next evening. It is that time of change and un-hardening. Most people will wait until the change has happened, the snow has really melted and they're sure to be on dry ground.
we have decided to do the contrary. to go as the snow is still clinging but leaving wet marks there where you must walk. to go as it melts in one night to leave space for the sprouts of violet and yellow flowers. to go as it covers the hills once again even though it will take twice as long to warm up the living space and you may feel stuck in the grey fog surround you. to go and feel the bite of the frost and the warmth of the sun. to feel the confusion of a body growing out of what seemed to be a permanent cold season.

Here you will find living archives of our time spent at the end of the cold season. One foot in the chia in Gruyère, others in Marsens, Mulhouse, Geneva, Strasbourg, Cairo, Oaxaca, and as far as you are right now. The physicality of a territory is something we carry in our bodies. The paths of our ancestors, of our neighbors, of our knowledge and our know-hows go with us further than the miles we count.

Let us free ourselves from quantifying to put a bomb there where there is nothing, and to put nothing there where there is grenade.

At the bottom of the crane, we write these sentences,
for the sake of wi-fi.

At the end of the cold season, the altitude points out our flesh in alternating peaks. put in another log, i tell you, and be quiet. There is nothing else to say and nothing more to do. The call of some duty and you go down, an hour and a half, to the cabin further down.

you walk or you take the bus or you hitch hike

the stain that stays is the altered face. other than the heat, there was frost. other than the white, there was red. We'll soon leave the end of the cold season, to make way for the cows.

You are invited to our sit-in
in the cow's stable
to wait out
the End of the Cold Season
46°35'09.1"N 7°02'03.8"E

4TH AND 5TH MAY

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