![]() ![]() Eden 50, as the project was named, also included a new film by Amiel Courtin Wilson in Melbourne – which is shown, in part, below – a performance by Michael Dean at Progetto, a reading by Philippe Parreno in Berlin, a concert by Scott McCulloch in Tbilisi. He enlisted a number of friends and “fellow travelers”, as he puts it, to help – including artist Paul McCarthy, writer Chris Kraus, artist Kaari Upson and rapper Abd Al Malik. ![]() ![]() Believing the book, and Guyotat’s work more broadly, to be more relevant now than ever, Grau decided to organise an event to celebrate its anniversary, comprising 50 readings around the world, one for every year since its release. Donatien Grau – the acclaimed scholar, writer and museum executive, who was very close to Guyotat – describes this literary work rather wonderfully as “barely bearable, but so beautiful” and “a very intense, very radical take onto oppression, violence, sexuality”. Last Wednesday marked the fiftieth anniversary of Eden, Eden, Eden – the legendary novel by Pierre Guyotat, who died in February of this year. ![]()
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