‘Viformation’ (We-formation) is a book in the Swedish language. It is a collection of texts about what it is to become a we. Our we happens by doing and discussing together. The texts handle how co-existence and making things together is possible. A question that concern us all. To write as a ‘we’ asserts general issues also embracing a larger group. The book has several formats of text, via the writing we explore complex and playful ways of observing, expanding and using we-s. The book ‘Viformation’ is written by Marcus Doverud and Liv Strand over the years 2013–2016.

By the book ‘Viformation’ years of collaborative work is brought together, reflecting the specifics of this working configuration. What emerges when a bundle of persons insist on making a subjectivity, acting as one? Doverud and Strand have met by their respectively artistic practices in writing the book along with shared interests in philosophy, poetry and media specificity.

Graphic design by Sara Kaaman. Thanks to our generous test readers Katja Aglert, Axel Andersson, Eva Arnqvist, Tina Carlsson, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Ana-Maria Hadji-Culea, Malin Sunesson and Lisa Torell. Great thanks to residencies we had at Flutgraben e.V. in Berlin and PAF, Performing Arts Forum in St Erme, France.