"A programme of disorder in the arts".
The Beaux-Arts de Paris and the École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais invite the political scientist, activist and curator Françoise Vergès to discuss environmental justice and the decolonisation of the museum and public space with Alain Berland, head of cultural programming at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and Brent Patterson, professor of architectural history and culture at the École d’architecture Paris-Malaquais.
After a doctorate in political theory at the University of Berkeley, Françoise Vergès taught in England and the United States. Co-founder of the association "Décoloniser les arts" in 2015, she chaired the Comité pour la mémoire et l'histoire de l'esclavage (Committee for the memory and history of slavery) from 2009 to 2012, programmed several exhibitions for the Mémorial de l'abolition de l'esclavage (Memorial to the abolition of slavery) in Nantes, created and directed the Global South(s) Chair of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (2004-2008) and, between 2002 and 2010, she directed the scientific and cultural programme of a museum in La Réunion, for which she proposed the "museum without objects".
She has collaborated with the artists Isaac Julien, Kader Attia, Olivier Marboeuf and Pascale Obolo. She is the curator of L'Atelier, a meeting/performance with mostly racialized artists and activists. She publishes in French and English on the "afterlife" of slavery and colonialism, decolonial feminism, regimes of violence, the museum, Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon. His recent publications include: Programme de désordre absolu. Decolonising the Museum (2023), De la violence coloniale dans l'espace public (2021), Une théorie féministe de la violence (2021), Un féminisme décolonial (2019).
Conference organised in partnership with the École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais.
Amphithéâtre des Loges - 14 rue Bonaparte, Paris 6e
Free admission subject to availability of seats
Broadcast live on Instagram and YouTube, to be found in podcast J+7
