Deux publications sur les relations entre art et archive

Avec un peu de retard, nous signalons la parution du dernier dossier de la revue African Arts (Summer 2015, vol. 48, no. 2) “African Art from the Archive”, coordonné par Fernand de Jong et Elizabeth Harney, avec un article d’Érika Nimis : “Small Archives and the Silences of Algerian History” (pp. 26-39), dont voici un résumé :

This essay deals with the approach of four female visual contemporary artists of Algerian origin who have used video, installation, but also more “traditional” media such as drawing and painting to tackle the history of Algeria and its main crux, the war of independence —an event which they did not witness, although their parents did. In their creations, these artists, drawing on varied sources (visual, oral, written), interrogate and make present again whatever family memories were transmitted to them (or not). Beyond the comparative presentation of these visual artworks, this essay aims to explore the figure of the passeuse d’histoire in contemporary Algeria, one who, on the basis of alternative archives, puts forward a form of “counter-history”, as the writer Assia Djebar has in her novels and films, to break the silences of the official discourse on History.

La première page de l’essai est ici, la table des matières là.

Par ailleurs, Érika signe un autre article intitulé “Combler les silences de l’histoire africaine. Ou comment des artistes visuels s’approprient des archives photographiques pour éclairer le passé à la lumière du présent” dans le Cahier 2 “Archives et création : nouvelles perspectives sur l’archivistique”, sous la direction d’Yvon Lemay et Anne Klein.

L’ensemble du dossier est en accès libre ici.

Bonne lecture !