ActionaryThings to do to your workAll operations

Occupy

Take the position and stay, without explaining why; the first justification turns it into a request.

Greensboro: four students sat down and didn't leave.

Seen in Chris Burden, Bed Piece, Market Street Program, Venice CA, 1972

Try it on your work

With your hands

Move your work to the place where it matters most and keep it there, visibly, for a week: not a visit, a residence. What the position exposed you to is what the previous position was sheltering you from.

In words

State your position once, clearly, and then hold it through three rounds of pushback without restating it louder or trading it away: clarify, but don't move. Note which round you most wanted to move in.

In the process

Take up one role or slot in the system that has sat vacant (chair it, own it, answer for it) for one full cycle. What flowed to the occupied position by itself shows why it was vacant.

How it has been used

Claim a position and hold it so presence becomes structural: the sit-in, the regular's table, the parked piano in the square. The move forbids justifying the stay: the holding is the whole content, and every explanation converts it into a request for permission.

Where it leads

Grouped under Protect what still needs to work

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