Contradiction is Unity

<p>On November 27, 2019 Geneva-based Off Space Cherish and Brand-New-Life organized a reading with Fatima Wegmann. The two contributions, titled <em>Above the Abyss</em> and <em>Contradiction is Unity</em> published here originated from this reading and are published on B-N-L as video- and text-based documentation and an accompanying essay. In her essay Fatima Wegmann is discussing the collectivizing potential of Ursula K. Le Guin’s fictional utopian horizons, intertwining performance with an interest in collaborative and healing practices. As part of an expansion of the discussion towards French-speaking Switzerland, B-N-L offers a platform to text-based artistic practice. Writing is an artistic practice that is still not comprehensively remunerated and recognized and, in the art context, is too rarely a subject of funding programmes. B-N-L therefore gives artists a framework to develop a new text.</p>