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‘Vis-à-Vis’ is a text work which was created for Facebook, taking place in the form of an intervention from 12th July to 23rd July 2010. It operated within all the everyday ‘chatter’ and often ephemerality that is Facebook, unfolding gradually at different times on a daily basis. The narrative is fragmentary creating threads of argument , connecting and disconnecting, false trails oscillate between fact and fiction. The fictitious dialogue is seemingly between two members of an organization who are involved in an intense argument about the construction of an imaginary manifesto. The two protagonists are continuously agreeing and disagreeing, contradicting each other and taking offense at criticisms and accusations made in the process of extracting common ground, often exposing apparent strengths and weaknesses in their individual beliefs. The complexity is further emphasized by the audience only being able to access one side of the discussion, creating a space for the reader to fill in the gaps and adopt a position within the flow of the debate.