News and Events
November 2011
Franco-Maghrebi Crossings
We will be presenting papers on aspects of the project at the forthcoming international conference 'Franco-Maghrebi Crossings', taking place at Florida State University, Tallahassee, 3-5 November 2011. The conference programme can be found here.
June 2011
Special Issue of Modern and Contemporary France
We are pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the journal Modern and Contemporary France, which we co-edited as part of the project. The issue features contributions on France and Algeria in contemporary visual culture from British, American and Algerian scholars on literary and photographic texts, cinema, art and architecture . You can find out more about the special issue here:
June 2011
Reflecting on New Cartographies
New Cartographies closed on Sunday 5 June after a very successful two months, during which over 14,500 people visited the show. Response to the show has been very pleasing, with positive reviews in publications including Art Monthly and the online arts magazine Nafas. You can read Yasmina Dekkar's review here:
New Cartographies: Algeria-France-UK. Nafas Art Magazine
On the Cornerhouse website, you can find a range of material related to the exhibition, including interviews with some of the artists involved in various Cornerhouse podcasts:
New Cartographies: Algeria-France-UK | Cornerhouse
We'd like to thank the team at Cornerhouse for all their help in developing New Cartographies and playing a large part in its success.
18 April 2011
New Cartographies in the media
Our exhibition continues to attract the attention of the media, with The Guardian making it one of its recommendations of the week on Saturday:
The Jewish Chronicle also covered the exhibition, focusing particularly on Sophie Elbaz, whose work explores the memory and cultural heritage of the Sephardic Jewish community before the time of Algerian independence:
You can hear about a serendipitous encounter involving Sophie Elbaz during the opening weekend in a forthcoming Cornerhouse podcast.
Finally, Joe was in conversation with new media specialist and blogger Christian Payne (aka Documentally) last week. You can hear their chat in Gallery 3 here:
new-cartographies-at-cornerhousemcr
13 April 2011
New Cartographies in the media
A feature on New Cartographies was published in the Manchester Evening News on Friday 8 April. You can find the story here:
The cultural website Culture 24 has made New Cartographies one of its 'Top Ten' must-see exhibitions for April:
The Culture24 Seven: Art must-sees in the UK in April 2011 | Culture24
Finally, Zineb Sedira and Amina Menia were interviewed on the BBC World Service culture programme The Strand on Tuesday 5 April. The programme reaches some 40 million listeners worldwide.
11 April 2011
New Cartographies: Algeria-France-UK
Our exhibition opened to the public on Friday 8 April after more than two years of planning and preparation. An exciting opening evening was followed by a stimulating programme of events, including roundtable discussions on Friday 8 April, and a gallery tour led by artists Sophie Elbaz and John Perivolaris, London-based curator Yasmina Reggad, and ourselves. A further gallery tour is scheduled for Thursday 19 May.
You can hear an interview with Zineb Sedira, whose new video work, Gardiennes de mémoire (2010), receives its UK premiere in Gallery 3, in the current Cornerhouse podcast.
March 2011
New Cartographies: Algeria-France-UK
The exhibition New Cartographies, one of the three outputs of our project, gets under way on Friday 8 April at Cornerhouse, Manchester. The exhibition showcases the work of ten contemporary visual artists from Algeria, France and the UK. Featured artists include Kader Attia, Zineb Sedira and Bruno Boudjelal. The show will also feature an installation by John Perivolaris based on the journey he undertook in 2010 between Manchester and Algeria. The show runs until 5 June. If you are in Manchester, why not join us at the preview event on Thursday 7 April between 6pm and 9pm? We will also be hosting a guided tour of the exhibition on the afternoon of Saturday 9 April.
Go here for a sneak preview of the show on the Cornerhouse website and details of related events.
June 2010
North To North: Launch Event, Friday 4 June
Join us on Friday 4 June at Cornerhouse, Manchester, as we mark the beginning of John Perivolaris's journey south to Algeria via London, Dover and France. John will talk about the aims of the North To North project, and about the ways in which you can get involved. The event will start at 5pm and will last an hour, after which we will drink to John's trip, and send him on his way. If you can't make it to Manchester this Friday, don't forget that you can follow John's progress and contribute to his journey via the North To North blog.
February 2010
North To North: A Journey in Postcards from Manchester to the Maghreb
As part of our exhibition at the Cornerhouse in April-May 2011, we have commissioned John Perivolaris to undertake a journey between Manchester and Algeria later this year. Lasting one month between 5 June and 5 July, the journey will take Perivolaris from the UK, through France to Algeria, and will result in an installation in the exhibition entitled North To North. Structured around a series of encounters with people connected personally to both France and Algeria, and via visits to key sites of memory that underpin the display of the Franco-Algerian relationship in the public sphere today, North to North will comprise walks and interviews with participants. The project will also endeavour to triangulate the Franco-Algerian relationship by exploring the signs and traces of the less obvious, but no less complex, ties between the UK and a country that France has historically assumed to be its own ‘back yard’. In doing so, it will raise questions about the contemporary relationship between notions of the “North” and “South” in an increasingly globalised world. During his journey, John wil be posting images and updates on the North To North blog. He welcomes contributions and suggestions for places to visit on his journey. Visit the blog to find out more and get in touch.
War and the Body Conference, Imperial War Museum, June 2010
We will be presenting a paper in June entitled 'Paris, 17 October 1961: corporeality, grievability and visual culture' at 'War and the Body', a one-day international conference organised by the University of Portsmouth and the War and Media Network. The conference will take place on 11 June at the Imperial War Museum, London. Further details of the conference can be found here.
October 2009
Workshop Programme Confirmed
The programme for our workshop on 'Visualising the Franco-Algerian Relationship since 1954' has now been confirmed. The workshop is being held in order to prepare for a special issue of Modern and Contemporary France, due for publication in 2011. The workshop takes place on 7 January 2010 at the University of Manchester from 9.30 to 5.30. For programme and registration details, go here. Abstracts of papers can be found here.
New Blog Launched
We have launched a blog in which we will be discussing some of the work in progress related to the project. Contributions and comments welcome! The blog can be found here.
September 2009
ASMCF Conference, Portsmouth
We will be presenting a paper in September on 'Crossings: Negotiating Identities between France and Algeria', at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France. The conference will take place on 3-5 September at the University of Portsmouth. Further details on the conference can be found at www.asmcf.org.
June 2009
Workshop Announcement
A workshop will take place at The University of Manchester on Thursday 7 January 2010 on 'Visualising the Franco-Algerian Relationship since 1954' to prepare for a special issue of Modern and Contemporary France due to be published in May 2011 as part of the project. Contributors will be presenting and discussing their proposed articles, and exploring the links between them. Further details and abstracts of papers can be found here.
