The thirteenth Before publication is a fictional text by Geneva based artist Timothée Calame aka T. Freakson Calame, exhibited at the Centre d'édition contemporaine in 2019.
Scatofiction is a collection of short stories that follow the urban wanderings of a protagonist through a series of unlikely events and encounters. In a stifling, paranoid atmosphere, each of the settings is the site of a threat to the main character, who drags along an existential malaise, coming up against the constraints dictated by absurd social conventions, as well as the floating, off-the-ground individuals who stand sentinel.
This text retraces Calame's interests: the city and its nooks and crannies, urban planning and its underlying political stakes, the cultural industry and its accesses. By describing an environment that is both coercive and deliquescent, it questions the influence of these public spaces on our behaviour in society, regulated by underlying codes and rules that constitute a surveillance system. Scatofiction conveys a sense of dereliction, a generalized state of economic and cultural precariousness, the effect of a power that favours individualism over the creation of a mutualistic, communitarian society, leaving each individual to his or her own solitude.
Published in the Before publication series, which gathers authors' texts or artists' inserts.
Timothée Calame (born 1991 in Geneva) is a Swiss artist. A 2014 graduate of HEAD, he was awarded the Manor Prize in 2017.
