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“A new international is being sought through these crises”
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
This project uses the metaphor of a demonstration to stage its narrative of visuality, revolution and decolonization in Algeria (1954-2011). It follows Jacques Rancière in seeing such events as the moment where it is possible to stage the people (abstract). It is in or in support of "Algeria," whether as a formerly colonized nation seeking independence, or as a metonym for those processes. The project explores the visualization of decolonization and revolution in Algeria and North Africa from the point of view of the child, meaning both children as such, and the colonized "child" of the parent nation.
Algeria
is a way to understand the interface of decolonization and
globalization
Whether or not you work "on" Algeria,
there is an "Algeria" in your work,
meaning that there is a place where the incomplete or failed processes of decolonization
and the formation of independent developing-world nations
intersect
with the homogenizing tendencies of globalization.
These
interfaces
are places of conflict and revolution.
In the aftermath of the light of the 2011 revolutionary movement that has swept across the region and indeed the world, this is a project about possible futures as well as recoverable pasts.
there is an "Algeria" in your work,
meaning that there is a place where the incomplete or failed processes of decolonization
and the formation of independent developing-world nations
intersect
with the homogenizing tendencies of globalization.
These
interfaces
are places of conflict and revolution.
In the aftermath of the light of the 2011 revolutionary movement that has swept across the region and indeed the world, this is a project about possible futures as well as recoverable pasts.
These pasts and futures are the product of long and entangled interfaces that we are going to walk through, remember, reanimate and (re)claim. The Zapatistas like to say that everything they do is "walking," a journey that has no final destination. This walking is done by means of text and to-camera videos in a broadly conventional way. There is a parallel case being made that this format, allowing as it does for a set of intersecting and interfacing threads to compose the whole, is in fact better suited to reclaiming and exploring these histories. To anticipate the conclusion, this shift should not surprise us, given the extent to which what we know as "History" was itself formed as a technology of empire. While there is no innocence attached to computing or authoring softwares, there is at least a certain open space in which, for the present, we can walk.
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