Fiction Talks #12

Emma Braso

In collaboration with sociologist Andrea Natella, who initiated the project, artists Eva & Franco Mattes launched the experimental media campaign “Ever Dream This Man?”. The project involved distributing hundreds of flyers across various US cities, including New York, Memphis, Nashville, learn more
In collaboration with sociologist Andrea Natella, who initiated the project, artists Eva & Franco Mattes launched the experimental media campaign “Ever Dream This Man?”. The project involved distributing hundreds of flyers across various US cities, including New York, Memphis, Nashville, Austin, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, linking to the website www.thisman.org. The campaign learn more
This Man (2009)
							Eva & Franco Mattes						
The United We Stand project imagines a non-existent Hollywood-style European blockbuster film, marketed as “a brilliant mix of espionage and sci-fi political stereotypes in which Europe, not the USA, saves the world from impending doom.” Through posters, a fabricated website, learn more
The United We Stand project imagines a non-existent Hollywood-style European blockbuster film, marketed as “a brilliant mix of espionage and sci-fi political stereotypes in which Europe, not the USA, saves the world from impending doom.” Through posters, a fabricated website, and a fictional backstory, the project presented a fictional movie to audiences worldwide. The promotional learn more
United We Stand (2005)
							Eva & Franco Mattes						
The genesis of the Lebanese Rocket Society unfolded during the early 1960s within the precincts of Haigazian University, an emerging Armenian educational institution in Beirut. Spearheaded by a cadre of enterprising students under the tutelage of Professor Manoug Manougian, a learn more
The genesis of the Lebanese Rocket Society unfolded during the early 1960s within the precincts of Haigazian University, an emerging Armenian educational institution in Beirut. Spearheaded by a cadre of enterprising students under the tutelage of Professor Manoug Manougian, a luminary in the field of mathematics, the Lebanese Rocket Society materialized with the ambitious mission learn more
Lebanese Rocket Society
							Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige						