The languages of the banlieues
It is especially in today’s French Banlieues that the most diverse experiences
of migration are condensed, revealing again and again the legacies and
continuities of an ignored colonial history. However, views of the
articulation of these experiences – the languages of the banlieues – all too
often disperse into different fantasies of a certain deficit and a constantly
self-obscuring surplus: while one side sees the sublime language of the nation
deteriorating, the other sees a linguistic diversity of an almost Babylonian
nature that, however, could also be a babel of languages; and whereas some, in
view of burning cars for instance, see nothing but mute violence, others hear
the crowing of a new revolution that has simply not yet found its true slogan.
But what if the lack or failure of translation and articulation, which all
these constructions in some way presume, first and foremost affects the social
and political language of those who try to ban the banlieues in their own
projections (only to turn them again into the “places of the ban”)?
It is against this background that the workshop “The languages of the
banlieues” tries to open a space of exchange and reflection that relies on
concrete linguistic and semiotic practices both in everyday life and the
collective production of texts, music and pictures. The goal is to explore the
specific inventiveness and creativity of these practices and their respective
forms of distorting, hybridising and translating, along with the meaning they
acquire in countering the hegemonic representations of “the banlieue”. Special
attention will be paid to processes of social (self-)organization as well as
the possibilities of political representation and political action in a
situation in which there are no equal rights for all.
Participants: Amina Bensalah, Sonia Chikh ([Les engraineurs][1]), Françoise
Dibotto Soppi, Anne Querrien, Abdoullah Ben Said ([Musik À Venir][2]), Boris
Seguin, Carlos Semedo, Myriam Suchet.
Workshop in the context of the project [Europe as a Translational Space: The
Poltics of Heterolinguality][3]. In cooperation with: [Les Laboratoires
d'Aubervilliers][4]
Public events in the course of the workshop
Illegal Cinema
Monday, 12 September 2011, 20h
Presentation of a selection of films of the collective [Les engraineurs][1]
(Pantin).
The Political Stakes of Translation
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 20h
Discussion with Boris Buden, Birgit Mennel and Stefan Nowotny
TOX - Concert by and with Musik À Venir
Saturday, 17 September 2011, 18h
A dance and music battle of 40 youngsters around the collective [MAV][2]
(Pantin)
Forthcoming
Europe: The World of Yesterday?
Workshop at Stefan Zweig Centre, Salzburg
5/6 November 2011
[http://eipcp.net/projects/heterolingual/files/workshop2-en][5]
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