Sleepwalking in a Dialectic Picture Puzzle - 2008 Three-day seminar and performance with Thomas Keenan and Avery Gordon at Whole Foods Market Bowery and New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2008, and 2 color videos, with sound, 50 min. Camera work by Angela Anderson Sleepwalking in a dialectic picture was a three day seminar as part of Anton Vidokle's Nightschool at the New Museum in New York. A lecture-performance in the museum auditorium on day one was followed by conversations and discussions with Avery Gordon and Tom Keenan on day two and three of the seminar. The conversations were held in Whole Foods, a huge organic supermarket around the corner from the New Museum. The original plan had been to hold the entire seminar there instead of in the museum's auditorium, but this plan failed when the supermarket refused to grant us permission. Instead, we held our conversations there and documented them using wireless microphones and a spy camera attached to cameraperson Angela Anderson's shoulder. The aisles and various spaces of the store served as a matrix for our conversations. Avery and I spoke about subjugated knowledges and the relationship between research and the ability to act. As we wandered through sections of the store, a selection of objects and functions served as coordinates for our conversation. With Tom we discussed forms of political agency that can overcome representational politics through radical translation and interpretation, referring to the performativity of language and of images. The conversations lasted about forty-five minutes, after which the crew walked back to the museum, rewound the tape, and screened it in the New Museum auditorium for the seminar participants. The screening was then followed by a discussion. The transcripts of the conversations were published in e-flux journal.