Than Hussein Clark works at the intersection of the roles of the artist, designer, director, screenwriter and set designer. His productions cannot be included in any of these categories alone, but instead seem to explode their borders and redefine their very nature. What is conveyed is not so much a generic idea of interdisciplinarity, but rather that of hybridization, contamination and over identification. In his projects Clark emphasizes the productive values of a given work, be it a film-work or a sculptural object, a two-dimensional or installation work. References to art history, poetry, cinema or literature animate his research, giving it depth and opening it up to a multiplicity of possible readings. The artist’s works are thus capable of formulating new narratives through a process of appropriation that goes beyond the formulas of historicization, and instead addresses cultural interstices and the intimate minor histories of the past. For the 58th October Salon the artist explores the collapse between fiction and reality as well as dreams and waking life in the present. The first part of the project, In Alphabetical Gardens (2021), is a 16 part audio play produced with The Director’s Theatre Writer’s Theatre and inspired by Susan Sontag’s 1963 novel The Benefactor, in which the protagonist Hippolyte lives according to the dictates of his oneiric activity, merging and confusing waking and dream states, imagination and reality. In Clark’s re-imagining of Sontag’s narrative, the action of the novel is moved from Paris to Belgrade and collaged with other found texts in the manner of Max Ernst’s Fatagaga series. The second part of the project, Aphorism Lobby Cards (A-H), consists of a series of placards drawing on Ernst’s series, the graphics of newspaper headlines and Dada poetry, and the text of Clark’s audio drama.