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A space of seventy-two years separates Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard and Broodthaers’ Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (1897 to 1969, respectively). Broodthaers, a writer, “abandoned” writing to work as an artist on a book by another writer, Mallarmé, who…(Read More)

"Her Majesty Sylvia M." 24 x 32 cm, 2015, pencil on paper (Illustrations after book of drawings by Silvia Plath). Edition of 50 copies produced by Tabakalera for the exhibition "Arenzana, Imaz, Intxausti, Montón, Peral".

With this session, I propose a reading of Her Majesty Sylvia M., a book made using random phrases from wall panels at the National Gallery in London and illustrated with versions of drawings by Sylvia Plath. Our reference here will be “The White Room” from Marcel Broodthaers’ L’Angelus de Daumier. The book title plays…(Read More)

Using Marcel Broodthaers’ book Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (1969) as her starting point, Amaia Urra presents a singular reading of texts and interviews with the Belgian artist.  Words follow one another as in a throw of the dice, forming new combinations and calling up hidden presences in language. “Bla…(Read More)

Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolirá le hazard was published posthumously in 1914 by Gallimard. It was read out, interpreted and rewritten by Marcel Broodthaers in 1969, and is being used as a departure point for a dance by Israél Galván, flamenco bailaor. This session, “Una…(Read More)

This session will consider possible relationships between film, books and text. It will be vertebrated around Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolirá le hazard, which we will take to be foundational in the contemporary idea of space, and which was transformed by Marcel Broodthaers into a “specific object…(Read More)