The haudenschildGarage commissioned a video of Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia performing his short story, La Loca y el Relato del Crimen (Madwoman and the Story of a Crime, 1975) for the hG, Spare Parts project A Crime Has Many Stories. Video directed by Steve Fagin, executive coordination by Alejandro Ruiz.

A Crime Has Many Stories is an exquisite corpse project commissioned and produced by the haudenschildGarage, based on Piglia’s text. The November 29, 2008 multidisciplinary, one-day traverse of the city of Buenos Aires was plotted with co-conspirators Judi Werthein, Sonia Becce and Alejandro Ruiz. In response to Piglia’s short story, the project generated two site-specific pieces by Argentine artists Rosalba Mirabella and Roberto Jacoby and Fernanda Laguna, and a commissioned story, El Hijo, by Argentine writer Washington Cucurto. The literary collective Eloisa Cartonera produced a limited edition Survival Kit and a catalog of the entire project.

About Ricardo Piglia

Ricardo Piglia (1941 Adrogue, Argentina) is one of the most innovative contemporary writers in Latin America. He has published three seminal novels Respiracion Artificial (1981; Artificial Respiration, 1994), La Ciudad Ausente (1992; The Absent City, 2000), and Plata Quemada (1997; Money to Burn, 2003) and three collections of short fiction, among them Nombre Falso (1975; Assumed Name, 1995). He is also the author of three volumes of essays, including his most recent publication El Último Lector (2005). His works have been translated to English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and Greek. Piglia has received a number of awards, including the Premio Casa de las Americas, 1967; Premio Planeta, 1997; Premio Iberoamericano de las Letras, 2005; Premio Internacional de Literatura Jose Donoso in Chile 2005; and the Prix Roger Caillois in France 2008. He is currently Walter S. Carpenter Professor of Literature at Princeton University, where he teaches Latin American literature. As a critic, Piglia has been a historian of popular culture writing about such authors as Jorge Luis Borges, Arlt, Julio Cortázar, and Manuel Puig.