Ways of publishing #4 / July 3rd, 2021
Ways of publishing #4
Saturday 3rd July, 3pm-7pm
For your information: This event will be held at Bétonsalon with free entry and simultaneously broadcast on Zoom and Facebook.
3pm-4pm. Architecture of Counterrevolution, crossed discussion
Conversation between Léopold Lambert, author of États d’urgence : Une histoire spatiale du continuum colonial français (Premiers Matins de Novembre, 2021) and Samia Henni (online), author of L’architecture de la contre-révolution, L’armée française dans le nord de l’Algérie, Éditions B42 (2019)
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Samia Henni, L’architecture de la contre-révolution, L’armée française dans le nord de l’Algérie, Paris, Éditions B42, 2019
This conversation between Léopold Lambert and Samia Henni will focus on the question of architecture as a political weapon in the context of the Algerian Revolution and its legacy. By intersecting issues addressed in their respective works, this discussion also aims to question the place of authors’ political commitment in the writing of history books.
Léopold Lambert is editor-in-chief of The Funambulist. He is a trained architect, as well as the author of three books that examine the inherent violence of architecture on bodies, and its political instrumentalization at various scales and in diverse geographical contexts. He is the author of Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (dpr-barcelona, 2012), Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street (punctum, 2016) and La politique du Bulldozer: La ruine palestinienne comme projet israélien (B2, 2016). His new book is entitled States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum (Premiers Matins de Novembre, 2021).
Samia Henni is a theorist and a historian of the built, destroyed and imagined environments, and an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag, 2017, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR), the editor of the War Zones gta papers no. 2 (gta Verlag, 2018), the convener of the 2020 Preston Thomas Memorial Lectures: Into the Desert: Questions of Coloniality and Toxicity, and the maker of exhibitions, such as Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, 2017–19). She received her Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture (with distinction, ETH Medal) from ETH Zurich and taught at Princeton University, ETH Zurich, and Geneva University of Art and Design. In 2021, she is the inaugurating Albert Hirschman Chair at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Aix-Marseille University (IMéRA); a Guest Professor in the specialized master’s in Art History in a Global Context at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich; and a Visiting Geddes Fellow at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh.
5pm-7pm. Launch of the 36th issue of The Funambulist "They Have Clocks, We Have Time” and conversation in English (online) between Léopold Lambert, Nasra Abdullahi, Miriam Hillawi Abraham and Syma Tariq
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For your information: Several copies of "They Have Clocks, We Have Time” will be put up for sale at the end of the discussion by The Funambulist’s team.
They Have Clocks, We Have Time, 36th issue of The Funambulist, 2021 © Black Quantum Futurism
On the occasion of the launch of the new issue of The Funambulist entitled "They Have Clocks, We Have Time", Léopold Lambert will present the various contributions that offer an in-depth analysis on decolonial issues related to the production, measurement and representation of time. This presentation will be followed by a discussion with three contributors, Nasra Abdullahi, Miriam Hillawi Abraham and Syma Tariq, who will address these issues more specifically within the countries of the Indian subcontinent and East Africa.
Syma Tariq is a researcher, writer and radio producer. Her Ph.D., “Partition as a sonic condition: listening through the postcolonized archive,” is being undertaken at the Centre for Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP), University of the Arts London. It focuses on the discursive and temporal separations embedded in histories of the 1947 Partition through sonic-archival forms and processes.
Nasra Abdullahi is a designer, writer and editor based in London. She is the 2021 guest editor of The Avery Review and a member of the second cohort of New Architecture Writers. A student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, she is interested in ways we can seek equitable futures through material cultures away from projected architectural and urban desires.
Miriam Hillawi Abraham is a multi-disciplinary designer from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With a background in Architecture, she works with digital media and spatial design to interrogate themes of equitable futurism, experimental conservation and intersectionality. She is a CCA-Mellon researcher for the Digital Now multidisciplinary project and a fellow of Gray Area’s Zachary Watson Education Fund.
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