Diasporic Encounters: Journeys between France and the Maghreb in Contemporary Art

流散的相遇：当代艺术中法国与马格里布之间的旅程

• 批准号: AH/F015046/1
• 负责人: Siobhan Shilton
• 金额: $ 3.02万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF015046%2F1
• 关键词: Diasporic; Encounters; Journeys; between; France

Research Context:My research examines contemporary art (from 1980 to the present day) by women who see themselves both as French and as Algerian, Moroccan or Tunisian. It explores the ways in which they use photography, installation and performance art to express their complex identities. It shows how their work provides a counterpoint to static, homogenous notions of French culture, and how it challenges French Orientalist images of Maghrebi women or more recent stereotypes of women of Maghrebi descent in France today. In particular, I analyse the ways in which their work uses the theme of travel - and, increasingly, represents actual journeys between France and the Maghreb - to demonstrate the inevitable interconnectedness of personal and collective French and Maghrebi histories and identities. Aims and Objectives:The period of AHRC research leave would be used to complete a monograph on five artists who I believe to be representative of the evolution of 'Franco-Maghrebi' art since 1980. This would involve writing up three out of five interconnected chapters, for which the primary research - and related outputs - would have been completed: Chapter 3: Zoulikha Bouabdellah (8,000)Chapter 4: Majida Khattari (8,000)Chapter 5: Zineb Sedira (10,000)I would also write a conclusion of 10,000 words. The introduction, and the first two chapters (Chapter 1: Houria Niati and Chapter 2: Samta Benyahia), will be completed before this period, as will two publications to be submitted in February 2008 (for details, please see 'Publications'). These publications, as well as a paper I have been invited to give at the University of Cardiff in February 2008, will provide essential interim feedback on the project, and will be used (along with the three papers I delivered in the academic year 2006-7) as drafts for the remaining chapters of the monograph, thus leading to its successful completion within the period of research leave. Potential Applications and Benefits:Whilst contributing primarily to the knowledge of French and wider francophone cultures and identities, and to the emerging focus of French studies on intercultural relations, this interdisciplinary monograph will contribute to scholarship and university courses in a wide range of interconnected fields such as postcolonial studies, art history, contemporary cultural history, gender studies, and studies in travel writing. Diasporic Encounters: Journeys between France and the Maghreb in Contemporary Art will give rise to a number of related individual and collective research projects. In addition to publications and papers already produced, further outputs related to the monograph include at least one article, one chapter and one paper, to be completed during a period of leave awarded by the University of Bristol (as mentioned above). This research will lead (in 2008-9) to a range of further papers, focusing on themes explored by the monograph, versions of which will be submitted as articles to Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Francophone Postcolonial Studies and the Journal of Romance Studies. Collaborative projects include the continuation of a series of seminars on Travel in French and Francophone Cultures (which I co-organised at the University of Bristol this year), as well as a regional seminar series on travel in Modern Languages, which I am planning with colleagues from the University of Cardiff and the University of Swansea. These projects will lead to at least one collaborative volume, to be submitted to Studies in Travel Writing. Whilst expanding this project (in 2008-9) to include comparative analyses of work produced by francophone artists of the sub-Saharan African and Vietnamese diasporas, I plan to organise an international conference on Postcolonialism in the Visual Arts, which would result in a further collaborative volume.

研究背景：我的研究考察了自认为是法国人、阿尔及利亚人、摩洛哥人或突尼斯人的女性的当代艺术（从 1980 年至今）。它探讨了他们如何使用摄影、装置和表演艺术来表达他们复杂的身份。它展示了他们的作品如何与法国文化静态、同质的观念形成对立，以及如何挑战法国东方主义对马格里布女性的形象或当今法国对马格里布血统女性的刻板印象。我特别分析了他们的作品如何使用旅行主题——并且越来越多地代表法国和马格里布之间的实际旅程——以展示个人和集体的法国和马格里布历史和身份之间不可避免的相互联系。目的和目标： AHRC 研究休假期间将用于完成一本关于五位艺术家的专着，我相信他们是自 1980 年以来“弗朗哥-马格里比”艺术演变的代表。这将涉及撰写五个相互关联的章节中的三个，其中主要研究 - 和相关输出 - 将完成： 第 3 章：Zoulikha Bouabdellah (8,000) 第 4 章：Majida Khatari (8,000)第五章：Zineb Sedira (10,000)我也会写一个10,000字的结论。引言和前两章（第一章：Houria Niati 和第二章：Samta Benyahia）将在此之前完成，两份出版物也将于 2008 年 2 月提交（详情请参阅“出版物”）。这些出版物以及我于 2008 年 2 月受邀在卡迪夫大学发表的一篇论文，将为该项目提供重要的中期反馈，并将（连同我在 2006-7 学年发表的三篇论文）用作专着其余章节的草稿，从而使其在研究休假期间成功完成。潜在的应用和好处：虽然这本跨学科专着主要有助于了解法语和更广泛的法语国家文化和身份，以及法国跨文化关系研究的新兴焦点，但它将有助于广泛相互关联领域的奖学金和大学课程，如后殖民研究、艺术史、当代文化史、性别研究和旅行写作研究。流散的邂逅：当代艺术中法国与马格里布之间的旅程将催生许多相关的个人和集体研究项目。除了已经发表的出版物和论文外，与专着相关的进一步产出包括至少一篇文章、一章和一篇论文，将在布里斯托大学授予的休假期间完成（如上所述）。这项研究将（2008 年 9 月）发表一系列进一步的论文，重点关注专着探讨的主题，其版本将作为文章提交给《当代法语和法语研究》、《法语后殖民研究》和《浪漫研究杂志》。合作项目包括继续举办一系列关于法语和法语文化旅行的研讨会（今年我在布里斯托大学共同组织），以及我与卡迪夫大学和斯旺西大学的同事计划举办的关于现代语言旅行的区域研讨会系列。这些项目将产生至少一本合作书，提交给旅行写作研究。在扩大这个项目（2008年9月）以包括对撒哈拉以南非洲和越南侨民的法语艺术家作品的比较分析的同时，我计划组织一次关于视觉艺术中的后殖民主义的国际会议，这将产生进一步的合作卷。