COYOTL is an initiative by Joël Verwimp and Nicolas Y Galeazzi, apparently founded in Bratislava on April 20th 2008 and published by verlegt. ItÅs primarily produced in the course of active research, speculative investigation and alternative systems of engagement. Guests and guest editors run the performance of the Yournal in self-contained processes working in circular relationships with absolute transparency and isolated audiences.
Do-it-what-self? - COYOTL in process
Under the theme of 'Do-it-yourself' Bains Connective offers a two month residency to a small selection of artists from April to May 2010. It aims to question the tension of collaborative and individual art practices. COYOTL is taking this chance to set up its new hub for a continuous flow of knowledge production and to release a temporary transitory edition of its Yournal. The hub will be structured as a constant performative research and print workshop including several public events. As the journal project of the publisher verlegt, COYOTL Yournal is dedicated to
a.) working with the local environment in Brussels around the Bains Connective,
b.) set up a situation for a collaborative but non-negotiated workflow,
c.) re-perform the content of the previous editions,
d.) stage dialogues with the other invited participants of Do-it-yourself and to research its connectivity,
e.) take on public presence in sub-cultural paperwork,
f.) transform the above into the new edition through a direct intervention of the guest editor, g.) to launch the outcome in a book launch. h.) and finally to start an A-Z almanac of its work.
COYOTL is artistic research and dispersed performance. The means and issue of our research is a hybrid of the formats of a journal and a workbook. Together they create a Yournal.
Using the disseminating character of a journal is passing knowledge from hand to hand. On its ways of dissemination the journal is performing itself. It transmits and transforms content from one use to another, is stage and performance, copy and original at the same time. > The format of a workbook on the other hand allows you to produce, record and digest your own knowledge. A workbook is the most simple and basic tool for do-it-yourself discourses and is for many artists the starting point and main feature for their work. COYOTL is unifying these two aspects and creates a new space for artistic activity, the diffusion of common knowledge and an internationally shared research platform. It provides a multiplicity of users with a shared workbook and disseminates it for further use.
We see COYOTL therefore as a collaborative performance in the two dimensions of a page, the three dimensions of the layered journal and the fourth dimension in the space of its dissemination. With COYOTL we perform a radical break with common strategies of dissemination and production of knowledge. COYOTL Yournal is an event based performative print process where reading, disseminating, writing, producing and printing is intermingled in one and the same process. Yournaling inverses the economics of a conventional journal, and creates a new economy of collaboration. As such it considers the production of knowledge as a direct social process which can be examined and shared to create new forms of habitus and habitation.
