Hors Pistes 2018
La Nation Et Ses Fictions
19 Jan - 04 Feb 2018
HORS PISTES 2018
La Nation Et Ses Fictions
19 January – 4 February 2018
The Hors Pistes festival continues its investigation of contemporary issues and their reflection in art and thought. This multidisciplinary event sees artists and thinkers invited to reflect, to imagine and to produce. This year, it looks at the nation and its fictions.
Over recent years the growth of nativism and certain forms of nationalism has made the idea of the “nation” a focus of attention, turning it into a watchword for some and a bogey-man for others. Hors Pistes this year asks: What else is being talked about when we speak of the nation, and what new stories might be told with or alongside this idea?
The festival brings together historians, philosophers, anthropologists, writers, cartographers, artists and the public to explore different ways of looking at and speaking of the nation, and the possibility of different kinds of “nation-like” formations. It seeks to think and imagine the nation differently by offering a hearing to voices that are excluded from the ethno-nationalist discourse on community and yet have much to say about belonging, shared projects, and a shared and shareable history. It is also an opportunity to look at other understandings of the nation, from the collective identities of indigenous peoples to the idea of the archipelago, and the notions of belonging and not-belonging that go with them. These assembled voices will gradually create another narrative, a shared and open-ended story, in keeping with the Hors Pistes festival itself, an embassy of the meta-nation, a universe city, a world café, a community garden.
Conversations, readings, seminars, workshops, performances, debates, work groups, choir and film club: all ways of experimenting with the ways we speak of ourselves, deconstructing and reconstructing the collective fictions that unite and separate us. Of beginning another story to be written for a transnational people. Between image, imagery and imagination, between artistic gesture and the collected stories of citizens who are as much actors as spectators, this year’s Hors Pistes seeks not to write the counter-history of a new nation but to open up a space for many voices to tell their tales. As Jacques Rancière says, “The real must be fictionalised in order to be thought.”
With, amongst others: l’Archipel des devenirs, Laurie Bellanca, Patrick Boucheron, Emmanuele Coccia, Catherine Coquiot, Adrien Genoudet, kom.post, Lebalto, Camille Louis, MU, Le Perou, Céline Pévrier, Clio Simon, Frank Smith, SPEAP, Sophie Wahnich, Wos/agence des hypothèses... Centre Pompidou members, and the public, one and all.
La Nation Et Ses Fictions
19 January – 4 February 2018
The Hors Pistes festival continues its investigation of contemporary issues and their reflection in art and thought. This multidisciplinary event sees artists and thinkers invited to reflect, to imagine and to produce. This year, it looks at the nation and its fictions.
Over recent years the growth of nativism and certain forms of nationalism has made the idea of the “nation” a focus of attention, turning it into a watchword for some and a bogey-man for others. Hors Pistes this year asks: What else is being talked about when we speak of the nation, and what new stories might be told with or alongside this idea?
The festival brings together historians, philosophers, anthropologists, writers, cartographers, artists and the public to explore different ways of looking at and speaking of the nation, and the possibility of different kinds of “nation-like” formations. It seeks to think and imagine the nation differently by offering a hearing to voices that are excluded from the ethno-nationalist discourse on community and yet have much to say about belonging, shared projects, and a shared and shareable history. It is also an opportunity to look at other understandings of the nation, from the collective identities of indigenous peoples to the idea of the archipelago, and the notions of belonging and not-belonging that go with them. These assembled voices will gradually create another narrative, a shared and open-ended story, in keeping with the Hors Pistes festival itself, an embassy of the meta-nation, a universe city, a world café, a community garden.
Conversations, readings, seminars, workshops, performances, debates, work groups, choir and film club: all ways of experimenting with the ways we speak of ourselves, deconstructing and reconstructing the collective fictions that unite and separate us. Of beginning another story to be written for a transnational people. Between image, imagery and imagination, between artistic gesture and the collected stories of citizens who are as much actors as spectators, this year’s Hors Pistes seeks not to write the counter-history of a new nation but to open up a space for many voices to tell their tales. As Jacques Rancière says, “The real must be fictionalised in order to be thought.”
With, amongst others: l’Archipel des devenirs, Laurie Bellanca, Patrick Boucheron, Emmanuele Coccia, Catherine Coquiot, Adrien Genoudet, kom.post, Lebalto, Camille Louis, MU, Le Perou, Céline Pévrier, Clio Simon, Frank Smith, SPEAP, Sophie Wahnich, Wos/agence des hypothèses... Centre Pompidou members, and the public, one and all.