Twelve heli­otopic short stor­ies

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You’re going to read what you’re going to read! A fest­ival of pastoral follies, a pixel bee desper­ately search­ing for a broken game pollen, a photo­vol­taic forest, diox­ides histor­i­ans of the decline of human­ity, a nego­ti­ation of shad­ows under prolet­arian constraint, a balloon trip towards the unex­pec­ted resi­li­ence of the living, tech­nos­api­ens in the mangrove, a referee freed by magnetic fields, connec­ted lulla­bies against state-agrico-voltaic corrup­tion, the Saha­ran success story of Zagora, the indus­tri­al­ised birth of an orb, now the only lumin­ous entity… the sun is an abso­lute. We invited twelve authors to multiply it.

To mark the second Solar Bien­nale, mudac has teamed up with La Volte to publish this collec­tion of twelve heli­otopic short stor­ies. Twelve pieces of fiction with one thing in common: the sun (it’s plural). Each, in its own way, dethrones this estab­lished star, using fiction to chal­lenge our rela­tion­ship with this primary condi­tion. This project is in line with one of mudac’s major polit­ical axes: to contrib­ute to the neces­sary trans­itions by propos­ing a prolif­er­a­tion of possib­il­it­ies, by multiply­ing worlds. It is also in line with the bien­ni­al’s trin­it­arian curat­orial approach: trans­form­a­tions can be achieved in a thou­sand ways, through the attrac­tion of diversity rather than submis­sion to facts, by mutat­ing rather than retreat­ing. Let your­self be carried away by the shelves that feed our imagin­a­tions.

A dome has been specially designed by TAKK to enter the realm of fiction. Construc­ted from acous­tic insu­la­tion panels, its circu­lar shape and mater­i­al­ity offer visit­ors a read­ing station. Its struc­ture, based on the prin­ciple of tensegrity, consid­er­ably reduces the amount of frame­work required, and shows that subtrac­tion can also be combined with the future.