An Encyclopaedia of Wars

‘L’Encyclopédie des guerres’ was a series of lecture-performances that began at the Centre Pompidou in September 2008, with one taking place each month. This was a long-term literary project, a sort of serial saga that was performed in public. The watchword for this enquiry was candour, and its method, idiocy. This cycle, in which books, essays, accounts and technical books to do with the subject of accumulated in a haphazard and accidental way, came to an end in November 2024 and formed the subject of an exhibition at the IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine), at the Abbaye d’Ardenne in Caen.