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There are no mistakes in history. The whole of history is a mistake.
Catherine Millet, Nicolas Bourriaud, Jean-Hubert Martin, Lorand Hegyi, Zelimir Koscevic, Aaron Levy, and Braco Dimitrijevic
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Palazzo Ca’ Pesaro, Canal Grande, Santa Croce 2070, Venice
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Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, and the Arsaevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, request the pleasure of your company for "There are no mistakes in history. The whole of history is a mistake," a celebration of the launch of the book Braco Dimitrijevic: Tractatus Post Historicus (1976) on Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at 4pm, at Palazzo Ca’ Pesaro, Canal Grande, Santa Croce 2070, Venice. This event has been organized in conjunction with Braco Dimitrijevic’s exhibition Future Post History at Palazzo Ca’ Pesaro, a collateral event at La Biennale di Venezia, 53rd International Art Exhibition. Catherine Millet, Nicolas Bourriaud, Jean-Hubert Martin, Lorand Hegyi, Zelimir Koscevic, Aaron Levy, and Braco Dimitrijevic will each deliver brief remarks.
This new edition of Tractatus Post Historicus, republished by Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania and edited by Aaron Levy, features early writings by Dimitrijevic and critical commentary by Nicolas Bourriaud, Dan Cameron, Nena Dimitrijevic, Lorand Hegyi, Zelimir Koscevic, Cornelia Lauf, Aaron Levy, Jean-Hubert Martin, Catherine Millet, Achille Bonito Oliva, Klaus D. Pohl and Osvaldo Romberg. For more information on this publication, or to purchase a copy, please contact our distributor, Microcinema International, at 1-415-447-9750 or www.microcinemadvd.com (ISBN-13: 978-0-9815409-5-5)
 Download the invitation (pdf)
"There are few people who would understand that the memorial plaque on Berlioz's house is an attack on free thought and judgement, while most of us would be sceptical towards overly commercial or political messages. However, this in no way means that signs from the second group are less repressive. Take for instance, the already mentioned example of the marble plaque on Berlioz’s house on which the sentence 'Berlioz lived here' is written. The basic system is linguistic but substituting the linguistic code for the message of its presentation gives us the statement 'Genius lived here.' It means that the implied message of all places without a memorial plaque is 'A genius never lived here.'" - Braco Dimitrijevic
This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation, in conjunction with the Arsaevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo and the exhibition "Future Post History," on view June 5-November 22, 2009.
MLA Style:
Catherine Millet, et al. "There are no mistakes in history. The whole of history is a mistake.." Slought Foundation Online Content. [04 June 2009;
Accessed 7 February 2012]. <http://slought.org/content/11423/>.
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