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.

Editorial direction: Mélanie Bouteloup
Coordination and introductory texts : Garance Malivel
Texts by Bernard Blistène, Mélanie Bouteloup, Edward Ruscha, Katinka Bock, Franck Leibovici, François Aubart, Camille Henrot, Jacob Bromberg, Johnny Kit Elswa, Lotte Arndt, Peter Weiss, Annie Tresgot, Keti Chukhrov, Nicole Brenez, Raquel Schefer, Petra Bauer, Ariella Azoulay, Anahi Alviso-Marino, Etel Adnan, Eric Baudelaire, Leon Ferrari, Nana Adusei-Poku, Benjamin Seror, Claude Parent, Raphaël Zarka, Mélanie Mermod, Thierry Lefebvre, Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet, Morad Montazami, Mathias Danbolt, Kantuta Quirós and Aliocha Imhoff, Monique Wittig, Sande Zeig, Gloria Anzaldúa, Langston Hughes, Sarah Frioux-Salgas, Françoise Vergès, Claire Pentecost, Mélanie Bouteloup and Garance Malivel, Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham
Graphic design : Marie Proyart
Co-published by Bétonsalon – center for art and research and Beaux-Arts de Paris, with the support of the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard and of La maison rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert.
Distribution: UD-Flammarion
Publication: March 2017
French edition and English edition
14.5 x 29 cm
392 pages
ISBN 978-2-84056-430-0

12€

The publication can be purchased at Bétonsalon - center for Art and research, and is available for mail order (cost of the book + postage).

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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