Wednesday, September 9 at 8:00 pm
Please join us for a reading of extracts from Eden, Eden, Eden by Pierre Guyotat. Since its release with the legendary publishing house Gallimard in 1970, this book by Guyotat – a young author then in his thirties – has provoked scandals, fascinations, and marvels. Deemed a “Saharian fiction,” it was published with forewords by Michel Leiris, Roland Barthes and Philippe Sollers, and was instantly praised by Michel Foucault; upon being censored, it gained immediate international support by the likes of Joseph Beuys, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pierre Boulez, Italo Calvino and Jean-Paul Sartre. Fifty years later, the work of Pierre Guyotat – who passed away this year – exerts an ever-growing impact, having proven to be prescient of a world on the verge of transformation, through violence, sexuality, decolonization, cosmology.
To celebrate Eden Eden Eden and his author, CCA Tel Aviv will join a consortium of private and public partners (full list below) in order to manifest the life of this great visionary text. The readings will take place in French, in the languages of existing translations (English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Russian among others) or provide an opportunity for new translations (Arabic, Hebrew, Italian). The reading is organized by the Association Pierre Guyotat – and supervised by its Chairman Donatien Grau – with the exceptional participation of Gallimard and the exceptional collaboration of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
The readings that will take place at CCA Tel Aviv will be held Hebrew, Arabic, English and French and will be free of charge. Please RSVP here.*
* Due to the strict limitation imposed by the Ministry of Health. Last minute cancellation will prevent other people from attending the event. Please make plans accordingly and if you can’t make it – please contact us and cancel: info@cca.org.il / 03-5106111
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Académie du Royaume du Maroc, Rabat
Ambassade de France en Chine, Beijing
Ambassade de France en Inde/Jaipur Literary Festival, Delhi and Jaipur
American University of Beirut, Beirut
Association Mosaïque, Biskra
Cabinet, London
Cahiers de Colette, Paris
CATPC, Lusanga
Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Centre international de Poésie de Marseille, Marseille.
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
Château de Jau, Case de Pène
Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade
De Balie, Amsterdam
Diaphanes and espace diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin
El Ático Pent Cultural, Mexico City
Escuela Multidisciplinaria de Arte Dramático, Montevideo
Eventos del Libro, Medellín
Faust, Turin
Festival d’Avignon, Avignon
Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc, Landerneau
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Groupe Art Contemporain, Annonay and Saint Julien Molin Molette
Institut Français d’Athènes, Athens
Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry
Maison africaine de la poésie internationale, Dakar
MC93, Bobigny
Mollat, Bordeaux
Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Museu Serralves, Porto
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Ombres Blanches, Toulouse
Palazzo Grassi / Pinault Collection, Venice
Performing Arts Forum, Saint Erme
Perrotin 106, Tokyo
Press Up, Dublin
Progetto, Lecce
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Rebuild Foundation / Stony Island Bank, Chicago
The Box, Los Angeles
The Island Club, Limassol
Théâtre National de Strasbourg
University of Toronto
Writers’ House of Georgia, Tbilissi
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels