A Story of Marginality

In 1996, the Quay brothers made the film Institute Benjamenta or This Dream People Call Human Life, based on Robert Walser’s novel Jacob von Gunten, which was first published almost 90 years earlier, in 1909. Why should one read Walser today? What is the real power of what is deemed marginal or inadequate?

Public debate with Dora García, Enrique Vila-Matas and Jordi Costa.

"Metamorphosis" rediscovers a set of artists of radical imagination situated at the fringe of prevailing discourse. The lecture series “In Another World” will allow audiences to re-read and contextualise their subversive potential in the present-day framework.