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.

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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.