Nouria Behloul will read excerpts from her upcoming collection: Chants Fantômes, Champs Fantômes.
Mariam Benbakkar Conference: Street and Seaview Conference Itinerary; Reading Nouria Behloul: Chants Fantômes, Champs Fantômes; conversation with Seloua Luste Boulbina
a proposal around the exhibition Its roots extend up to 7,000 km
Mariam Benbakkar Conference: Street and Seaview Conference Itinerary
«Where we will follow together a ship of the CMA CGM in its route on the globe land to us.»
A Franco-Moroccan born in Toulouse and raised in Auvergne, mariam benbakkar is a photographer, videographer, author, performer, and curator.
Since her arrival in Marseille 11 years ago, she has been passionate about Marseille and immersed herself in the archives to offer decolonial visits for 2 years.
She is the co-founder of the Filles de Blédards collective, with whom she has been organizing events since 2018 with emerging artists around post-colonial imaginaries.
For the past three years, she has been co-writing with the channel Histoires Crépues the shows "On Discute!": moving debates, with anonymous people, around the political issues of racism and discrimination in France.
She likes to work intelligently with other artists, thinkers, poets, and activists on issues of colonial heritage in France. The idea being that its promotion and knowledge grow so that it becomes an essential subject in public debate and political decision-making.
Reading of Nouria Behloul: Chants Fantômes, Champs Fantômes.
Alongside the film Ghost Songs (planned at the company on 29.08), and the installation Ghost Fields (presented in the exhibition Ses racines s'étendent jusqu’à 7000km) There is a third part of this recent research by Nouria Behloul: a textual form that she will read tonight.
Nouria Behloul has an interdisciplinary practice with which she explores poetic and political social structures. His work has been presented in various contexts. In 2021, her book Poetry is the only way out of here was published by Bom Dia Books. Since 2021, she has lived in Marseille, where she directed the OCT0 bookstore Semiotext(e) Marseille and its program until spring 2024.
She is a laureate of the 2023/24 Mécènes du Sud program and the 2024 residency program of the Jan Michalski Foundation. His first film, Chants Fantômes (2025), was part of the official selection of FID Marseille 2026 in the French competition.
Conversation with Seloua Luste Boulbina, philosopher and politician
Seloua Luste Boulbina is a philosopher and politician, currently an associate researcher (HDR) at the Laboratoire de changement politique et social (LCSP) of Paris Cité University. Program director at the International College of Philosophy (2010-2016), she worked on the decolonization of knowledge. Lecturer (2005-2008), she conducted a study on the colony-postcolony articulation. The international and transdisciplinary dimension is a characteristic of his research, which focuses mainly on the consistency of the concept of decolonization and the vectors of its implementation, particularly the arts, literature and philosophy. Its aim is to transform not only the speeches but also the languages, into texts that can be part of the "documentary philosophy" as in Algiers-Tokyo, emissaries of anticolonialism in Asia (les presses du réel, 2022) or "bush philosophy" as in Sortir d'terre, A philosophy of the plant (Jimsaan 2024/Zulma, 2025). She has directed and authored many books, notably Les Miroirs vagabonds ou la décolonisation des savoirs (arts, literature, philosophy), les presses du réel, 2016, or Malaise dans la décolonisation, Terres éparses et îles noires, les presses du réel, 2025. Kafka’s Monkey and others Phantoms of Africa (Indiana University Press, 2019) received a French Voices Award and Grands Travaux à Paris (La Dispute, 2007) was a finalist for the Prix du livre d'architecture. She has also written about photographers and artists, such as for Algérie Indépendance, photographs by Marc Riboud, Le Bec en l'air, 2009. Her latest text for an exhibition catalogue is about "Tétanos" by the Tunisian artist Aïcha Snoussi at 32bis in Tunis (winter 2025-2026) and is entitled "Machines désirantes et lignes de vies".
