ABSTRACT
It is January 2018, and we are talking through the final stages of the project, and how to best frame the work that we have done. The French doors that Stuart mentioned in our Openings chapter, that we unlocked only from the inside, are shut and locked against the cold. Among other sensations in the room is the feeling that this may be our last time in this space, with these doors. We discuss the fact that the book – and in particular its ‘content’, the collection of examples and case studies we have gathered – has expanded in terms of our original definitions of both doors and performance. But we also identify a desire for the early forms of the work, especially the practical laboratories from 2014, to be present. Stuart makes the point, during this conversation, that this whole ‘thing’ “began as a project”, not a book. 1
