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Mario Bellatin’s novel Szechuan's School of Human Pain revolves around the questions of representation and pain, delving into the complex relationship between art, trauma, and violence. If pain is inevitable and omnipresent, what can we do with it? “Now that you find yourself far away, allow me to tell you, here, surrounded by dozens of corpses, that there is no goal. Sorry, actually, yes: to make a book", writes Bellatin. Using The School of Human Pain (composed of rules and scenes), as a guiding codex, as well as other curated materials to build upon, participants will generate writings and collages that will form part of an ever-growing Archive of Pain. It’s an invitation to a live open reading of Bellatin’s fractured book to generate new writing (alphabetic and pictographic), reading and writing as an act of archeological speculation and translation, creating fragments of new languages, possible ways to represent human pain –it’s causes, context, and consequences.
