1-54 Forum Marrakech 2019 | Maghrebian Surrealism

1-54 Forum Marrakech 2019 | Maghrebian Surrealism

Author: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair March 12, 2019 Duration: 1:08:25

1-54 Forum Marrakech

22 - 24 February

Maghrebian Surrealism [FR]

Habib Tengour (Poet and Sociologist, Mostaganem and Paris) and Olivier Hadouchi (Historian of cinema, Paris) will depart from Tengour’s surrealist manifesto which subtly shows that surrealism - a movement considered to be of French origin - is in fact a recent European variant of much older Maghrebian traditions and practices. Tengour and Hadouchi will discuss Maghrebian roots of surrealism as a revolutionary means of disengagement, as a form of subversion of the language of power and a passionate pursuit of the practice of poetry, and the formation of histories and memory in relation to the Algerian context.

Le Surréalisme Maghrébin [FR]

Habib Tengour (poète et sociologue, Mostaganem et Paris) et Olivier Hadouchi (historien du cinéma, Paris) s'appuient sur le manifeste surréaliste de Tengour, qui montre avec subtilité que le surréalisme - un mouvement considéré comme étant d’origine française - est en fait une variante européenne récente dérivant de traditions et pratiques maghrébines beaucoup plus anciennes. Tengour et Hadouchi débattent des racines maghrébines du surréalisme utilisé à des fins révolutionnaires de désengagement, en tant que forme de subversion du langage du pouvoir, poursuite passionnée de la pratique poétique, et création de récits et d'évocations liés au contexte algérien.

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