Kick-starting the many initiatives celebrating 100 years of Surrealism and its retrospective exhibition, Magma Journal and Centre Pompidou are reviving the surrealist enquiry through a unique and ephemeral publication: a newspaper inspired by the surrealist tradition and the numerous ephemera of the movement. This newspaper gathers the voices of a great number of leading contemporary writers, film-makers, intellectuals and artists from France and abroad.
The surrealist enquiry (based on the four original questions of the Surrealist Movement: Why do you write? What do you do when you are alone? What was the most important encounter of your life? What kind of hope do you place in love?) was submitted to a great number of leading contemporary writers, film-makers, intellectuals and artists from France and abroad, of all ages and styles. They were able to respond freely in a text ranging from one line to 400 characters (including spaces), or with a quote, a dream, an illustration, or a drawing.
Contributions by
Marina Abramović, Pierre-Marie Agin, Jakuta Alikavazovic,
Giulia Andreani, Christine Angot, John M Armleder, Jacques Audiard,
Mathias Augustyniak, Nathalie Azoulai, Rina Banerjee, Thomas Bangalter,
Georg Baselitz, Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam, Philippe Beck, Emma Becker, Anne Berest,
Gérard Berréby, Arno Bertina, Wang Bing, Christopher Bollen, Nina Bouraoui,
Mohamed Bourouissa,
Frédéric Boyer,
Vincent Broqua, Pierre Buraglio, Belinda Cannone, Leos Carax, Théo Casciani, Barbara Cassin, Arnaud Cathrine, Mary Ann Caws, Patrick Chamoiseau, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Xinyi Cheng,
Hélène Cixous,
Thomas Clerc, Jonathan Coe,
Clément Cogitore, George Condo,
Vincent Corpet, Stephan Crasneanscki, Jean d'Amérique, Étienne Daho, Kamel Daoud, Marie Darrieussecq, David B., Lenora de Barros, Maylis de Kerangal,
Erri De Luca, Léonor de Récondo, Laurent de Sutter, Hélène Delprat, François- Henri Désérable, Vinciane Despret, Patrick Deville, Alexandra Dezzi, Herve Di Rosa, Arthur Dreyfus, Esther Duflo,
Mimosa Echard,
Olafur Eliasson,
Simone Fattal, Logan February, Esther Ferrer, Frédérika Amalia Finkelstein,
Alain Fleischer, Dominique Fourcade, Christophe Fourvel,
Bettina Funcke, Christian Garcin,
Liliane Giraudon, Nicolas Godin, Ferdinand Gouzon, Emmanuel Guibert, Cécile Guilbert, Yannick Haenel, Leonardo Heiblum, Nathanaëlle Herbelin,
Thomas Hirschhorn, Célia Houdart,
Anne Imhof, Simon Johannin, Leslie Kaplan, Alicja Kwade, Stéphanie La Cava,
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Lola Lafon, Marie-Hélène Lafon, Camille Laurens, Nathalie Léger, Nina Léger, Laure Limongi, Amin Maalouf, Marielle Macé, Félix Macherez, India Mahdavi, Philippe Mangeot,
Christophe Manon, Nicolas Mathieu,
Ramuntcho Matta, Philippe Mayaux, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr,
Paul McCarthy,
Annette Messager,
Michèle Métail, Léonora Miano, Pierre Michon,
Jean-Luc Moulène, María Negroni, Gaspard Noé, Gaëlle Obiégly,
ORLAN, Gilles Ortlieb, Orhan Pamuk, Matthieu Peck,
Charles Pennequin, Nicolas Pesques,
Elizabeth Peyton, Picha, Lolita Pille, Claude Ponti,
Laure Prouvost,
Martial Raysse, Jacques Réda, Blandine Rinkel, Catherine Robbe- Grillet, Julian Rosefeldt,
Ed Ruscha, Christine Safa, Marjane Satrapi,
Peter Saville, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Ryoko Sekiguchi, John Jefferson Selve, Albert Serra, Jean-Claude Silbermann, Leïla Slimani, Kiki Smith, Patti Smith, Seynabou Sonko, Miriam Stoney, Pol Taburet, Georgina Tacou, Joséphine Tassy, Arthur Teboul,
Wolfgang Tillmans, Kinga Tóth,
Laura Vazquez, Anne Weber,
Erwin Wurm, Nina Yargekov, Yasmin Zaher, Stephan Zimmerli...
