Interview around the invisible in the arts
Contemporary art has gradually turned the ritual into an alternative to performance. This gesture deserves to be questioned because it has multiple implications: Is every performance a ritual? Is art as we experience it a product of the disenchantment of the world? If so, can we really make rituals again without subscribing to the hypothesis of an illusory or even impossible re-enchantment of the world? These questions deserve to be explored to understand the articulation of the current mutations of art and the wider context of cosmopolitical and historical upheavals. This interview, conducted on 8 July 2024 by Emmanuelle Nizou (BE) and shared during Feral 2024, will attempt to address this.
Mohamed Amer Meziane is a philosopher. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. After teaching at Columbia University as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, he joined Brown University as assistant professor of Francophone and Middle Eastern studies.
He is the author of The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization. This book won the Albertine Prize for non-fiction in 2023 and was published in English in April 2024 by Verso Books. His second book was published in French in 2023.It is entitled Au bord des mondes.Vers une anthropologie métaphysique. His work reaches both academic and non-academic audiences in Europe and Africa, with lectures at the Collège de France, MoMa PS1, LuMA, the Nuit des idées in New York and Dakar, as well as in Morocco. His books have been reviewed or interviewed in a number of media, including Le Monde, Mediapart, Le Media TV and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He has also been invited to write about a number of contemporary artists for exhibition catalogues, art galleries and magazines such as Flash Art.
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Credits
Interviewer : Emmanuelle Nizou, Editing : Éric Desjeux, Distribution : Feral 2024, a festival developed and organised by Cifas