QUANTUM SOCIETY

Book launch, talk & performance

9 Dec 2021 at 15:00 – 16:30

Talk / moderator: Adam Bencard
Performance by Sara Gebran
Reading-Listening with the audience.
Launching and book signing

In QUANTUM SOCIETY, like in the first publication ANOTHER HOLE, Sara Gebran continues developing a speculative-writing style to avoid a genre categorization. In this publication she makes categorization even harder by including more genres styles: Read-J (DJ for readers), song lyrics, poetry, journalist, cinematic and street language, personal notes, political manifesto, performance essay, visual essay, practices, theories, and more. Her trance-writing style uses delirium and hallucination to access new imaginaries.
Sara proposes a new world without representation called: NOTHING, BIG EMPTY, BIG NOTHING, during her 550 micro chapters in the book. She uses the page as a stage to continue her choreographic and dancing practices, and as a public space where readers meet (in a quantic time) and experience new imaginaries. The emotions by colors, emotions by spacing, and how to sing this book on the first page are instructions on how to read the book. These instructions gives the reader agency to put together their own matrix of feelings and imaginaries. The uncanny intimacy, which Sara develops with the reader is a tool and a concept she calls Social Intimacy. This is part of her last 5 years investigation on how to achieve a more open, inclusive and solidary society, a QUANTUM SOCIETY, which is a concept that is unfolded slowly throughout the book.

Book facts:
Publ. Errant Bodies Press & MaMa Multimedia Institute.
Edited: Michael Langan.
Graphic Design: Wilfred Wagner.
Support: Sara Gebran / Public Eye