BETWEEN THE CARDS - WORKSHOPS AND MEETINGS "Cartographies of the post-colonial landscape"

CAMP & Shunya Collective, Country of the sea, 2016, cyanotype, Clark House Initiative

A work­shop organ­ised by Françoise Vergès (polit­ical sci­en­tists, Chair of Global South(s) at the Collège d’Etudes Mondiales), in part­ner­ship with the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
These ses­sions will also be an oppor­tu­nity to meet with our guests : artists, archi­tects and researchers.

"Cartographies of the post-colo­nial land­scape" is a part of a series of work­shops seeks to exper­i­ment and spec­u­late on dif­ferent col­lec­tive ges­tures (objects, sto­ries, doc­u­ments) and dis­mem­ber­ments, on col­lage and re-assembly, notably in museum and exhi­bi­tion con­texts from the post­colo­nial per­spec­tive.

The objec­tive of the work­shop is to con­sider the con­tours, reliefs and bor­ders of the map of French post-colo­niality, con­sid­ering its mul­tiple tem­po­ral­i­ties and spa­tial­i­ties. We will col­lec­tively space this map­ping of post-colo­niality through the exam­i­na­tion of sev­eral crit­ical con­cepts – fron­tiers / camps, slavery / migra­tion, hybridity / cre­oliza­tion / lan­guage, centre / periphery, suburb / city / metropolis / over­seas, routes / war, land / sea / ocean, memory – for­matted with sounds, images, books, arti­cles, maps, free thinking (recipes, songs, flags, geo­log­ical maps, imag­i­nary maps, trav­el­ogues, head­lines, pho­tographs, films, musical instru­ments, fig­urines...). Anything that can figure, even par­tially, in a cre­ative and ephemeral way; any­thing that can involve var­ious approaches, ref­er­ences and imag­i­nary.

Registration required. Limited places avail­able.

Tuesday June 7, from 5pm to 7pm : Public resti­tu­tion of the work­shop.

This work­shop is orga­nized in part­ner­ship with the Collège d’Etudes Mondiales at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.