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Activity
Getting to Know Georges Perec
Curated by Ricard Ripoll with the collaboration of Frederic Montornés.
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Live streaming at 7 pm.
The seminar Getting to Know Georges Perec is organised in conjunction with the exhibition Species of Spaces, curated by Frederic Montornés. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from one of Perec’s works, draws attention to the existence of a fruitful dialogue between literature and art. Nonetheless, it would seem that Perec is not very well known beyond the purely literary world. To address this lack of familiarity, MACBA has organised a series of lectures and interventions around his life and work.
Perec joined Oulipo in 1967 and, shortly later, in 1970, Marcel Bénabou. Bénabou can tell us about the private Perec, whom we knew well. Another Oulipo writer, Oliver Salon, will offer an overview of Perec’s oeuvre as a whole, and Eduarda Keating, who wrote her doctoral thesis on the novel La Vie mode d’emploi (published in English as Life, a User’s Manual), will discuss the writing constraints that run through the book. Lastly, a debate with speakers from various fields will offer an idea of the wealth of readings that Perec’s work can give rise to.
To round off the seminar and put in practice some of the guiding principles of Oulipo, a Saturday workshop with Ricard Ripoll will pose a series of playful writing exercises, examining the difficulties they pose and demonstrating the Oulipian maxim according to which constraints are liberating. Participants will feel like ‘rats who build their labyrinth from which they plan to escape,’ just for the pleasure of it.
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participants
Marla Jacarilla
Alcoy, 1980
artists
3 artists
