presque ruines is an interdisciplinary collective born from the debris of an internal collapse that has not actually taken place but that, for the sake of convenience, we assume has already occurred. Whether not yet completely in ruins or no longer we cannot say, though our activities may tend towards form as much as towards formlessness. Our existential territories lie in the cracks between the almost nothing and the not quite something, a terrain vague where we seek to stage a breakdown of precarious life.
The activities of presque ruines focus on the mental and bodily effects and affects of precarization and exhaustion in the context of cognitive capitalism and arbitrary power. The group is part of an international project, KAFKAMACHINE, which desires to imagine a film by Kafka. For presque ruines this provides the partial framework for an ongoing series of investigations and processes that might include workshops, film screenings, publications and a reading group.
presque ruines is currently based in Paris.
CONTACT : bartlebybearlife@gmail.com
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