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    Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent*.

    January 23 – April 13, 2013
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    Exhibition view "Make an effort to remember. Or failing that, invent." Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris, 2013. Image: Aurélien Mole

    Gloria Anzaldúa / Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz / Giuseppe Campuzano / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / Carola Dertnig / Cheryl Dunye / Renée Green / Marge Monko / Roee Rosen / Monique Wittig

    An exhi­bi­tion curated by Aliocha Imhoff & 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.

    * Monique Wittig, Les Guérillères, 1969, trans­lated by David Le Vay (1973)

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    Exhibition view "Make an effort to remember. Or failing that, invent." with Giuseppe Campuzano, "Museo Travesti del Perú", 2013. Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris, 2013. Image: Aurélien Mole

    Le peuple qui manque is a cura­to­rial plat­form cre­ated by Kantuta Quiros and Aliocha Imhoff in 2005 which is working between art, video, film, pol­i­tics and crit­ical the­o­ries, ini­ti­ating many events (exhi­bi­tions, film screen­ings, fes­ti­vals, inter­na­tional sym­po­siums) and pub­li­ca­tions, for art cen­ters such as Centre Pompidou, musée du quai Branly, Palais de Tokyo, BAL, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Festival d’Automne, 104, Parc Saint Léger, Mix New York, etc.

    More infor­ma­tion : lepe­u­ple­quimanque.org

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