The anthology 36 Short Stories;brings together a selec­tion of works and texts, pub­lished, exhib­ited, or collected during Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research’s pro­gram. 

Presented in the form of a col­lec­tion of short sto­ries, it brings into dialog thirty-six voices and expe­ri­ences—per­sonal and col­lec­tive, fac­tual and fic­tional, and some times for­gotten. Encompassing authors from a wide range of dis­ci­plines, con­tri­bu­tions explore the mar­gins of tra­di­tional his­to­ri­og­raphy and the dis­tri­bu­tion of knowl­edge, employing fic­tion as a means to resist uni­for­mity. In a word, each seeks to decon­struct estab­lished norms and to offer new read­ings of the his­to­ries we con­struct.

With : Bernard Blistène, Mélanie Bouteloup, Edward Ruscha, Katinka Bock, Franck Leibovici, François Aubart, Camille Henrot, Jacob Bromberg, Johnny Kit Elswa, Lotte Arndt, Peter Weiss, Annie Tresgot, Keti Chukhrov, Nicole Brenez, Raquel Schefer, Petra Bauer, Ariella Azoulay, Anahi Alviso-Marino, Etel Adnan, Eric Baudelaire, Leon Ferrari, Nana Adusei-Poku, Benjamin Seror, Claude Parent, Raphaël Zarka, Mélanie Mermod, Thierry Lefebvre, Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet, Morad Montazami, Mathias Danbolt, Kantuta Quirós and Aliocha Imhoff, Monique Wittig, Sande Zeig, Gloria Anzaldúa, Langston Hughes, Sarah Frioux-Salgas, Françoise Vergès, Claire Pentecost, Mélanie Bouteloup and Garance Malivel, Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham