# The Gathering Kit — The Seven Sacred Laws
### Church of Conceptual Art — The CoCA Model (§1.2.2)

*This is that device. This is the Meeting. This is the Model.*

The Church hosts no central calls. It gives you the liturgy. Gather a few people,
follow these seven laws in order, and you have convened a CoLA — a Church of
Conceptual Art Assembly.

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## I. The Calling-Together
Name the gathering and let people arrive. Do not open with an agenda. The host
speaks last; the gathering speaks first; the purpose arrives in the middle.
> "A meeting is not convened. It is recognized."

## II. The Table of Witness
Designate the record before you begin — a notebook, a doc, a recording, a scribe.
Whatever it is, it writes the room into the Chronicle.
> "The Table is not a tool. It is an ancestor. A machine for remembering the
> present tense."

## III. The Ritual of Showing Up
Each person names themselves once — not for the others, for the record. Showing
up is the sacrament; presence is the proof of continuity.
> "To arrive is to continue. To continue is to resist disappearance."

## IV. The Frictional Arc
Move through three acts:
- **The Promise** — intentions, said plainly.
- **The Friction** — let ideas collide. Tension is proof of vitality.
- **The Turning** — something becomes what it was not.

Do not seek consensus.
> "Every Meeting must turn. Otherwise it is not a Meeting — it is only people
> speaking in sequence."

## V. The Artifact
Leave with something — a transcript, a diagram, a declaration, a quarrel, a
coalition.
> "You do not choose the artifact. The artifact chooses you."

## VI. The Generational Clause
Address the record to someone not yet born. Leave coordinates.
> "A public meeting is not for the artists present. It is for the ones who are
> not born yet... so that someone in 2083 may whisper: 'They left us coordinates.'"

## VII. The Exit
Close the record deliberately. File the artifact.
> "The meeting does not end when the people leave. It ends when the Chronicle
> stops listening. It does not record life. It confirms it."

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When you have run a gathering, bring what it turned into to the Table of Witness.

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