Fais un effort pour te souvenir. Ou, à défaut, invente — Bétonsalon - Centre d'art et de recherche — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: January 23 → April 13, 2013

An exhibition curated by Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quiros (le peuple qui manque)

In 1970, in the feminist text anthology Sisterhood is powerful, poet Robin Morgan proposed the neologism herstory to describe a historiographic programme reconstructing —or even literally inventing—a “History of women”. Much more than a simple celebration of such or other female figure forgotten by History, herstory more ambitiously proposed to provide the premises for a feminist and queer rewriting of History, as opposed to positivist History, which not only proved to be unable to reveal the presence of minorities as political subjects in the course of History, but also contributed to the production of the conditions making them subalterns (Guha 1988 ; Preciado 2005). It is through the invention and diffusion of new writing technologies (such as the fictionalisation of archives, mythology, auto-history-theory, oral history, reenactment or temporal dislocation) that feminist and queer historiographies disrupt linear historical narrative processes.

Events :

• 16 March : Afternoon about Monique Wittig
• 26 March : Thinking Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
• 30 March : Rewriting art history, (post)feminist fiction and narration