Faire art pour faire politique

Dominique Malaquais, art historian and political scientist (1964-2021): her life and training are rooted in two countries (USA, France), two cultures and two languages. For her, thinking about art and thinking about politics are one and the same. And it is to Africa, its urban cultures and its arts that, for over thirty years, she has devoted her activity as a researcher, teacher, curator, translator and writer.

Because working as part of a group was essential for Dominique Malaquais, she tells her story here with her fellow travellers - Kadiatou Diallo, Silvia Forni, Éléonore Hellio, Jean-Christophe Lanquetin, la paperson, Lionel Manga, Dominique de Ménil, Ntone Edjabe and Julie Peghini. They are academics, video-makers, curators, scenographers, bloggers, activists, essayists, publishers and DJs. With each and every one of them, an exchange. It's about insubordination, shared convictions and common practices, positions taken and disagreements, uncertainties, anger, joys, possibilities and dead ends. As these stories unfold, an atlas of intertwined trajectories emerges.

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Dominique Malaquais (1964-2021) was an art historian and political scientist who examined the intersections between political violence, economic inequality and the development of urban cultures in the era of late capitalism. She taught in the United States (Columbia, Princeton, Sarah Lawrence) and was a researcher at the CNRS.