What is "Matchpoint"?

You raise a question, I point out another. We avoid easy answers which would render our meeting pointless.

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Point1: the tapered sharp end of an object
Point2: a dot, a punctuation mark
Point3: a moment in time
Point4: a particular place
Point5: a mark on a surface
Point6: an item on a list
Point7: an idea or argument put forth by someone in a debate
Point8: the essential element of an intention
Point9: the purpose to be gained from doing something
Point10: the characteristics of a person
Point11: a unit of scoring, value, credit
Point12: to indicate direction
Point13: to take aim
Point14: to make a citation
Point15: to establish evidence
Point16: to indicate presence
Point17: to make something sharp
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Match1: contest... to be matched against
In what ways might we be involved in a competition with each other?
Most of us would like to think we are not.
But are there not factors external to our meeting - a marketplace of ideas perhaps - that require us to be pitted against each other despite our sincere desire to meet?
Or perhaps we are engaged in a collective fight against a structure that paradoxically sustains us?
Is this not a perennial struggle? That in a significant way our raison d'etre is hinged upon our abilities to raise questions, highlight doubts, resist being subsumed into an economy... while we operate at the same time, WITHIN this economy?
To contend against is to try and surmount a difficulty.
To contend for is to assert a position within a given space.
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Match2: equal... to meet one's match
You raise your arm from across the room, I respond my shaking my head.
You turn up the music, I try not to succumb to the demands of its rhythm.
How much should I allow you to push me?
How much will you push me?
Are we as strong as each other?
Is there surplus energy in our engagement and what do we do with it?
Or will I topple over... perhaps take you down together with me?
To equalise is to bring about the maximum transfer of power from one to the other.
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Match3: resemblance... to match up to
Yes, this sounds familiar. We recognise we might have heard this already before, even as we say the same things again... maybe this time in a different language... in a different order. A new turn of the same phrase might help us discover new territories, however small.
Something happens. Somebody speaks. Somebody moves.
Whatever does happen, somebody will speak and something will move.
It all adds up to an experience. Whatever happens, there will be an experience. But is this enough?
To correspond is to converse with the goal of achieving agreement, identification and/or congruity.
Can we challenge this?
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Match4: compatibility... to make a match
Is our coming together necessarily harmonious?
Like a shirt that goes well with a pair of shoes?
In our genuine desire to come together, in our ability to come together genuinely... what does it all look like from the outside? Whose and which agendas do we serve when we shake hands, share food, dance together and hug?
Don't get me wrong. I did want to shake your hands, I enjoyed sharing food, I felt less alone when we danced together, I also felt a tinge of regret when we hugged and said goodbye... there is so much we have yet to discover.
To marry is to fulfill a search.
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You raise a question, I point out another. We avoid easy answers which would render our meeting pointless.

Daniel Kok