This Story is a Bag: An installation at Maison Bergogne

At Maison Bergogne, an audio recording of Tilda Swinton reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s celebrated essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” anchors an installation by Elizabeth Lepro and PA-based artists, built around one of the most influential literary texts of the past half-century. In the essay, Le Guin challenges the dominance of heroic, linear narratives and proposes another origin story: before the weapon came the container—the basket, the vessel, the thing that gathers and holds. For a festival devoted to TIME SHIFT, it offers a powerful alternative to stories of progress and conquest, and a vision of time as cyclical, collective, and alive.