A Bundle of Silences (1871) is a project in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune with the support of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and the International Institute of Social History. Artifacts, sounds, and artworks related to the history of the Paris Commune will be activated here. These serve as the basis for ongoing artistic research about transhistorical associations that reconfigure the events of the Paris Commune both in its overlooked precedents and ongoing aftermath. For further information on this project, please write to info@communes.international
» It is not a question of breadcrumbs. What is at stake is the harvest of an entire world, a harvest necessary to the whole future human race, one without exploiters and without exploited. «
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» It is not a question of breadcrumbs. What is at stake is the harvest of an entire world, a harvest necessary to the whole future human race, one without exploiters and without exploited. «
28.05.1871
Silencing of the Paris Commune
27.5.1871
Final stand by members of the Paris Commune against the Versailles Army at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery
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27.5.1871
Final stand by members of the Paris Commune against the Versailles Army at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery
24.05.1871
Paris Commune members set fire to the Hôtel de Ville to fend off the advancing Versailles army
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24.05.1871
Paris Commune members set fire to the Hôtel de Ville to fend off the advancing Versailles army
22.05.1871
The Paris Commune calls its members to the barricades to fight the impending Versailles army
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22.05.1871
The Paris Commune calls its members to the barricades to fight the impending Versailles army
21.05.1871
» Fragments of paper ash coming from the burning of Paris blew like black butterflies. Above us the lights of the fire floated like red crepe. And always we could hear the cannons. We heard them until May 28, and right up to that day we said to each other: the Revolution will take its revenge. «
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21.05.1871
» Fragments of paper ash coming from the burning of Paris blew like black butterflies. Above us the lights of the fire floated like red crepe. And always we could hear the cannons. We heard them until May 28, and right up to that day we said to each other: the Revolution will take its revenge. «
16.5.1871
The Paris Commune dismantles the Vendôme Column
01.05.2021
» No matter what happens, remember these objectives—for there will always be revolutions in the world until these are achieved: the land for the peasant, the tools for the worker, work for all. «
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» No matter what happens, remember these objectives—for there will always be revolutions in the world until these are achieved: the land for the peasant, the tools for the worker, work for all. «
20.4.1871
The Paris Commune abolishes night shifts for bakers
12.4.1871
The Paris Commune issues an official decree to demolish the Vendôme Column
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