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Julian Volz: Searching for New Languages, ­Searching for Minor Voices in the Archive: Notes on Sido Lansari’s Artistic Practice
Searching for New Languages, ­Searching for Minor Voices in the Archive: Notes on Sido Lansari’s Artistic Practice
(p. 145 – 172)
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Julian Volz

Searching for New Languages, ­Searching for Minor Voices in the Archive: Notes on Sido Lansari’s Artistic Practice

PDF, 28 pages

In his essay, Volz discusses Sido Lansari’s film Les derniers paradis and some of his other artistic works, locating them in cultural studies debates on questions of homosexuality in the Islamic world, as well as debates concerning an “Arab sexuality” that is supposedly located beyond Western binaries. In addition to the artist’s cinematic works, Volz also discusses Lansari’s more recent installations, which deal with the history of the Maghrebi homosexual movement LAHZEM in France.

  • orientalism
  • desire
  • queer theory
  • contemporary art
  • contemporary art
  • Postcolonial Studies

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Julian Volz

Julian Volz is a curator, and research associate in the graduate programme Cultures of Critique at Leuphana University Lüneburg. In his dissertation, he is researching contemporary artistic practices that are referring to the (cultural-)revolutionary era of independent Algeria in the 1960s. Other research interests include Third Cinema, Queer Contemporary Art from the SWANA region and modernist Art in North Africa. Together with Meike Gerber and Emanuel Kapfinger he edited an anthology on Hans-Jürgen Krahl (2022), who was one of the leading theorists of the movement of 1968 in West Germany.
Other texts by Julian Volz for DIAPHANES
Hauke Branding (ed.), Julian Volz (ed.): Radical Desires
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Hauke Branding (ed.), Julian Volz (ed.)

Radical Desires
French Gay Liberation and Anticolonial Critique

Softcover, 208 pages

PDF, 208 pages

Despite a historically rich tradition of thinking about the relation between sexuality, desire and revolution, there is little engagement with desire’s radicality today. This volume attends to the radicality of desire as a starting point for overcoming heteropatriarchal capitalism by turning to the specific radical homosexual critique as it was first formulated in France in the 1970s in the writings of the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes and the Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire, as well as in the conceptions of their most important protagonists, Monique Wittig and Guy Hocquenghem. Radical Desires seeks to emphasize the anti-identitarian character of the French gay liberation movement, as well as its implicit and explicit critique of gender and sexual binaries.

 

At the same time, the volume is also interested in intersectionally expanding this critique by confronting it with anticolonial and queer of color perspectives. As French gay liberation activists’ relations to North African men were often problematic, several contributions engage with the latent orientalist and racist tropes that appear in the movement’s writings. By aiming to go beyond a mere historicization of these ambivalences and exploring which contemporary problems appear in a different light as a result, Radical Desires highlights the (dis-)continuous relationship between current debates and those in 1970s France.

 

To explore the multiplicity of forms with or in which these critiques were expressed, the volume places theoretical perspectives in conversation with artistic perspectives on Queer liberation in a transnational context.

 

With contributions by Friederike Beier, Antoine Idier, Émilie Notéris, Lukas Betzler, Mohammad Shawky Hassan, Sido Lansari, Todd Shepard and Julian Volz.

 

 

 

 

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