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Cover of Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville by Estelle Hoy 

Tuesday, 20 December 2022, 4–5 pm | AIR SALON

Estelle Hoy reads from her latest book, Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville (After 8 Books, Paris), and from a series of text-based artworks. Mauro Hertig contributes a new vocal piece, alongside two existing pieces: the string quartet Silly Empath, and a multichannel tape piece, Liquid Contra.

Estelle Hoy is a writer and academic based in Berlin. She completed her PhD in Contemporary Feminist Experimental Literature. Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville, released in 2020 by After 8 Books, was her second [removed];

Mauro Hertig is a Swiss composer with an output of ensemble, chamber, and site-specific works. He creates stage environments as game-like settings, using sounds of intimate speech, touch, and instructions.

Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville by Estelle Hoy follows a wild nocturnal frolic among the anarchists and hipsters of Paris: Elke is a young academic with a troubled past that keeps spilling onto her present. Just as she is about to leave town for a writing retreat, she meets Pisti, a charismatic, hard-boiled, but luscious Hungarian left activist who runs an anarchist collective in Paris. Over one night in a Belleville apartment, old friends and new lovers discuss–and act–polyamory, politics, and the art of conversation.

Air Berlin Residency:

Neige Sanchez from September 2022–Feb 2023, Switzerland
Matheline Marmy from September 2022–Feb 2023, Switzerland
Machiel van Stokkum from September–December 2022, Netherlands