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Studio XX invited Paule Mackrous as curator to explore the Matricules archive and offer us a Point of View reading of her findings.

 “The gaps in our information that are textually undetermined have the effect of creating suspense, making the reader expect an explanation, an informational complement.”
Rachel Bouvet, Étranges récits, estranges lectures, essai sur L’effet fantastique : p.2

XX Fantastic

Indeteminacy

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Les Chantal Dumas c. 94-96 :
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« Scully and The X-Files shaped my feminism during a time where I had few feminist role models to rely on. » (feministing.com, 2008/07)

What is the driving force behind artistic creation? Isn't it often a strange situation that we want to embellish, without exactly reconstructing it? Nina Czegledy developed an interest for space art because she found it mysterious.   She explained her interest during the Femmes br@nchées (Wired Women) conference: “Perhaps it was this enigma, this something unusual, which draws me to explore space art . ” This enigma also became the starting point for the sound art project Les Chantal Dumas . A mysterious woman phones Chantal Dumas, asking her to help find her missing daughter of the same name. This strange call sets off a phone investigation: Chantal Dumas calls all the other Chantal Dumases in the phone book. The strange voice of the person on the other side of the wire is like an echo: “You have to help me; you're the only one who can help me.”   In a fictional staging, these real phone conversations are inextricably intertwined with this mysterious, unresolved event. The “XX” in “Studio XX” is not only a reference to the female chromosome combination: the radio show the XX Files makes reference to The X-files , a fantastical science-fiction television series broadcast from 1993 to 2002. Hearing is a much less accurate sense than sight: it stirs the imagination to unforeseen heights, and artistic sound creation seems especially conducive to indeterminate creation. The XX Files radio show presents many projects that explore this aspect of the fantastic.