In May 2006, Pages magazine invited ALMOSTREAL to write an article for the 5th issue of Pages entitled ‘On the Verge of Vertigo’. The ALMOSTREAL team welcomed this as a chance to reflect on the process of ALMOSTREAL and the conflicts between the ideals conjured at the administration desk and reality; between the intentions of ALMOSTREAL and the vertigonous swirl of decisions, changes and actual activities that have taken place so far in supporting artistic collaborations across Europe. The process of writing the text raised many sharp issues and questions about how the difficult, if not impossible process of trying to establish a closer working relation and communication with artists to understand better what is needed to fund different artistic practices at both a local and a wider continental even global level.

"...To understand the uneasy shifts taking place in ALMOSTREAL, one could draw an analogy to the relationship between hypothesis and experiment. Whereas the proclamations as outlined in official foundation documents are hypothetical, the unexpected deviations and incidents which occur as the activities unfold are an uncontrolled experiment. The new perspectives that this experimental material exposes, urges us to re-think assumptions and to draft more suitable hypotheses so that we can continue exploring the (almost)real." (excerpt from 'Almostreal..." contribution for Pages 5 #

"To simultaneously serve the interests of the funder and the interests of the artist is, some would say, a doomed plan. But it is the precarious process of bringing into light conflicting realities of specific cultural contexts, their power structures and the interactions between them that defines ALMOSTREAL. The ambiguity and uncertainty needed to imagine a new set of realities also evokes the projects name. Yet, to get this far, the project needs to also be prepared to confront and deal with its own misprision so that it can proceed with the effort to know and be affected by the identities and possibilities of other cultural realities." Wietske Maas, excerpt from 'Almostreal..." contribution for Pages 5 #