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Feedback from various lab rats:

Back to this gorgeous latin city, ill and exhausted (this you can figure out), but reasonably happy and overwhelmed by the a post L energy. First I’d like to thank you for the energy that you bunch of happy people devoted to the launching of the Lab. I’d like to thank you for your hospitality, and the very inclusive and respectful ways under which you launch it. From a French activist perspective, the way this space works, the fact that as a perfect unknown newcomer, I was allowed in this clown meeting …, this absolute quite atmosphere under which the Saturday tea debriefing took place, are simply amazing. … The fact that the lab as a process worked, the process being reasonably self-organized after your initial launching under these commons rules, that trust, friendships, ideas, practices, desires, pleasure, energies and sandwiches were circulating is surely a success. Thanks for creating its possibility.
This process is really powerful and one should think about a way of allowing these interactions to continue ….
Nicolas.

“… I enjoyed myself immensely during the lab, indeed felt a significant amount of depression gathered from the every-day experience of the academy and art-world pretentiousness, from their merciless lack of humour- to both of which I myself also occasionally participate - as well s from the often frustrated rhetoric of many groups trying to articulate a consistent theory and practice of resistance, released in the call for the “essentiality of acting subversively stupid” (as explained for the Clowns and beyond) and at moments felt deeply sorry for the policemen who often appeared not even suspecting the possibility of laughing at what took place in front of their eyes.”
Eva

thanx for a great 4 days People! It's been really fukkin inspirin! let freedom and imagination reign supreme!
xsieger

Thanks to everyone involved in the lab. Thought it was great to get so many groups and individuals working together to make creative chaos.
John W

Well done to all the unwashed and unwanted OTHERS who made the weekend such a great success. …
A massive thank you to H at RampArt for housing everyone, but most importantly I must thank you for joining M and myself in swallowing pound coins as part of OUR action to cause economic disruption by removing coins from circulation. Unfortunately I was unable to shit mine out until Monday morning at J's house (severely malnourished and too tired to operate video equipment to record the event). However, I have presented J with the beautifully tarnished coin (I hope you were able to retrieve your coins and marvel at the beautiful rainbows that the hydrochloric acid in your gut creates) in the hope he and you will spread the word about the repulsive, controlling nature of the coin in society. ….. KEEP EATING AND SHITTING COINS. REVULSE PEOPLE WITH YOUR STORY OF SIFTING THROUGH YOUR OWN SHIT TO PREVENT THEM HANDLING COINS. WE DO NOT NEED TO BE CONTROLLED BY COINS.
Keep up the good work. Chris. XXX.

Well, I had so much fun this weekend - I'm just refusing to believe it's all over ... I felt on such a healthy high - don't want to come down from it!.
Ceri