WEDNESDAY 10 NOVEMBER 18:00 - 20:30

BLANCA SOTOS

The textualities are deeply polyphonic, encompassing many utterances and speeches entrenched in the desire to simplify linguistics, reducing their voices to just one. Forcing the lack of a hyperlink, and exploiting the rupture of that established intertextuality in the referenced quote denotes the implicit and uncovers the literal, thus generating other relationships that exist between the texts and their voices. Polyphonic bibliographies form part of Pretexts, Texts, Contexts, a publication conceived for a symphonic reading where 100 voices simultaneously read out loud each of the quotes within it. Its first activation took part during the Unclassifiable Editors Meeting, held in Salamanca’s Casa de las Conchas Library on 26 September 2020, eighty years after the death of Walter Benjamin.

Blanca Sotos Vidal holds a degree in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid and completed a Master’s Degree in Editing at the University of Salamanca. She is now a teacher and an independent editor. She is interested in experimental editorial processes and contemporary creations. She has lived in Mexico for almost ten years where, among other things, she has been in charge of Exit La Librería, of the editorial department at the Jumex Museum, and organised the third edition of the PaperWorks Art Book Fair. She has been the head of marcablanca in Madrid since 2018.