36 Short Stories
The anthology 36 Short Stories brings together a selection of works and texts, published, exhibited, or collected during Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research’s program. Presented in the form of a collection of short stories, it brings into dialog thirty-six voices and experiences—personal and collective, factual and fictional, and some times forgotten. Encompassing authors from a wide range of disciplines, contributions explore the margins of traditional historiography and the distribution of knowledge, employing fiction as a means to resist uniformity. In a word, each seeks to deconstruct established norms and to offer new readings of the histories we construct.
The publication is available in French or in English. It can be purchased at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and research, and Villa Vassilieff.
Table of content
Foreword
Bernard Blistène
Introduction
Mélanie Bouteloup
The Information Man
Edward Ruscha
Shared Letters
Katinka Bock
memos, briefs and reports (on formats)
Franck Leibovici
Navigating the Immense Sea
François Aubart
Grosse Fatigue
Camille Henrot and Jacob Bromberg
A Man In the Moon
Johnny Kit Elswa
Reversing the Burden of Proof as Postcolonial Lever
Lotte Arndt
The Most Powerful World of Our Age
Peter Weiss
My Time With Michèle
Annie Tresgot
The Ethical Deed in the Soviet Films of the 1960s and 1970s
Keti Chukhrov
Edouard de Laurot and (the) Cinéma Engagé.
Preliminary Remarks
Nicole Brenez
Re-constitutions: On Mueda, Memória e Massacre, by Ruy Guerra
Raquel Schefer
How Do Images Make Politics?
Petra Bauer
The Civil Contract of Photography:
Terms and Conditions
Ariella Azoulay
Street Art, Collective Action and Dissent in Sana’a
Anahi Alviso-Marino
To Be In a Time of War
Etel Adnan
Letters to Max
Eric Baudelaire
Cidade
Leon Ferrari
Of Borders and Limits of Visual Technologies
Nana Adusei-Poku
Opéra 5 Weeks
Benjamin Seror
Fluidity
Claude Parent
Free Ride: Skating, Galilean Mechanics, and Simple Forms
Introduction – Locomotive Gravity
Raphaël Zarka
Jikken Kobō: The Experimental Workshop in Japan During the 1950s
Mélanie Mermod
A Chronology of Pirate Radio
Thierry Lefebvre
Total Restoration
Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet
Notes on Scriptology: Voices from the script of the Otolith Group
Morad Montazami
Not Not Over: Archival Engagements in Queer Feminist Art
Mathias Danbolt
Writing the History and Politics of the Future:
Notes on a Few Historiographic Fictions
Kantuta Quirós and Aliocha Imhoff
Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary
Dictionary - History
Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig
Ethnic Autohistorias-teorías:
Writing the History of the Subject
Gloria Anzaldúa
I, Too
Langston Hughes
American, Haitian, Spanish and Russian Digressions
Sarah Frioux-Salgas
Letter to the Crown Prosecutor Louis-Gilbert Boucher
Furcy
How Do We Live Among the Plants?
Françoise Vergès
Fields of Zombies: Biotech Agriculture and the Privatization of Knowledge
Claire Pentecost
About ADA Magazine:
A Few Questions for Jennifer Sorrell
Mélanie Bouteloup and Garance Malivel
Native Cultural Objects Today in Brazil
Maria Thereza Alves
Justiniano Lamé Has Been Killed
Jimmie Durham
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