ARCHIVES 2013 / Scum Rodeo

In 1967, Valérie Solanas self-published her manifesto SCUM, which she sold on the streets of Manhattan. A scathing underground attack? A scientific exposé? A critique of ordinary sexism? A political tract? An emancipation manual? A totalizing utopia? An anticipation poem? A whole feminist and libertarian programme that intermingles styles and discourses. A text that has become cult while remaining confidential, for almost 50 years SCUM has been questioning, driving crazy and persisting in inveighing against the male social order. If the idea is to stage it, it is in the sense of sitting astride it, accompanying its paradoxical swerves. The animal is ferocious but it likes to play. Don't let yourself be thrown.
Sarah Chaumette and Mirabelle Rousseau