Cairo Off-Biennial: Something Else IV
Darb 1718•Feb 09, 2025 — Feb 22, 2025
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“At the beginning of the 17th century, during an evening in Lucerne or London, the splendid story began. A secret and benevolent society (whose members included Dalgarno and later George Berkley) was founded in order to invent a country… After a two-century hiatus, the persecuted fraternity re-emerged in America. Around 1824, in Memphis (Tennessee), one of the members conversed with the ascetic millionaire Ezra Buckley. Buckley let him speak with some disdain - and laughed at the modesty of the project -. He told him that in America it is absurd to invent a country and proposed the invention of a planet.” - Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths, 1941.
Two years into the second World War, Borges’ novel The Garden of Forked Paths (1941) reflected his vision of the way in which the old colonial powers were re-drawing their objectives. From Buenos Aires, his words counter the narratives of Western press. Is the victory they speak of t…
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Cairo Off-Biennial: Something Else IV
Darb 1718•Feb 09, 2025 — Feb 22, 2025
Press Release
“At the beginning of the 17th century, during an evening in Lucerne or London, the splendid story began. A secret and benevolent society (whose members included Dalgarno and later George Berkley) was founded in order to invent a country… After a two-century hiatus, the persecuted fraternity re-emerged in America. Around 1824, in Memphis (Tennessee), one of the members conversed with the ascetic millionaire Ezra Buckley. Buckley let him speak with some disdain - and laughed at the modesty of the project -. He told him that in America it is absurd to invent a country and proposed the invention of a planet.” - Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths, 1941.
Two years into the second World War, Borges’ novel The Garden of Forked Paths (1941) reflected his vision of the way in which the old colonial powers were re-drawing their objectives. From Buenos Aires, his words counter the narratives of Western press. Is the victory they speak of t…
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