On this occasion, Mudam has invited the Luxembourg actor Fábio Godinho to interpret Guyotat’s text for a 30-minute online podcast. The texts herald the endpoint of colonial history as well as the starting point of a new history. Its immediate censorship attracted further international support from leading cultural figures including Pier Paolo Pasolini and Joseph Beuys.įifty years later, the work of Pierre Guyotat remains impactful and Eden, Eden, Eden has proven to be prescient of a world on the verge of transformation – through violence, sexuality, decolonisation, and cosmology. The work of a young author, it was prefaced with texts by influential French philosophers Michel Leiris, Roland Barthes, and Philippe Sollers, and endorsed by Michel Foucault. Since its release on 9 September 1970, this provocative novel has attracted a mixture of scandal and fascination. Marking the 50th anniversary of Pierre Guyotat’s Eden, Eden, Eden (1970), this podcast is part of a series of readings organised by the Association Pierre Guyotat in collaboration with contemporary art institutions and galleries around the world.
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