{"id":360,"date":"2015-09-28T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tricontinentale.net\/?page_id=360"},"modified":"2015-09-29T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T08:58:07","slug":"02-dont-breath-normal-read-souffles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tricontinentale.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=360","title":{"rendered":"#02 Don’t breath normal, read Souffles!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Souffles<\/em> magazine published in Rabat from 1966-72. Souffles\u00a0<\/em>had long been unlocatable, for it was banned in Morocco in 1972. Its editor, Abdelatiff Laabi, was imprisoned for eight years before being released following international pressure in 1980 and going into exile in Paris. The magazine is now accessible online thanks to his efforts and an international network. It\u00a0was digitalized in 1998 by the City University of New York,\u00a0\u00a0USA and is since 2010 accessible at the National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco. A review of its history was recently provided by the French-Moroccan literary scholar and journalist Kenza Sefrioui in the frame of her doctoral thesis.[1]<\/a> Articles by the Rome-based art historian Toni Maraini in the Springerin<\/em> periodical and the online journal Red Threat<\/em>[2]<\/a> have contributed to familiarizing a younger generation of writers, academics and cultural producers with Souffles<\/em>. They include the Bidoun<\/em> magazine, the South African project Chimurenga<\/em>, the publicly accessible library of SAVVY Contemporary<\/em> in Berlin-Neuk\u00f6lln and the l\u2019appartmenet 22<\/em> art space in Rabat, as well as with the projects \u00a0Action! painting\/publishing<\/em>\u00a0and Aesthetics of Decolonization\u00a0<\/em>initiated from 2012 in Paris and Zurich.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

Souffles<\/em> is regarded as one of the most influential Moroccan literary magazines of the 20th<\/sup> century. Editors and collaborators\u00a0generated\u00a022 issues in French, and 8 in Arabic, that were titled Anfas<\/em>.\u00a0While the assessment about its high literature quality must be endorsed, what it omits is the magazine\u2019s transnational and interdisciplinary character. Whether its national setting (Morocco) and orientation toward one discipline of art (literature) suffices to cover and describe Souffles<\/em>\u2019 scope of activities between poetry, visual art, theory and activism is a question that we as editors of the tricontinentale.net platform were\u00a0highly concerned with in the last years.<\/p>\n

Rereading Souffles<\/em> today, one can equally call it an internationalist, Pan-Arabian, Pan-African, and tricontinental culture magazine shaped by Maghreb, European and Creole writers, fine artists, and activists. What unfolds in the 24 issues are discussions on Negritude, the Pan-African festivals in Dakar and Algiers, debates on culture and revolution in the tricontinental solidarity movement and in Third Cinema, as well as the protest movements of 1968 in Europe.This prospect include as well insights of new studies\u00a0in the anglophone context that have been recently published relating to the Tricontinental dimensions\u00a0of Souffles<\/em>\u00a0by Clare Davies and Olivia Harrison\u00a0as well as a\u00a0critical anthology of selected writings that will be coming out end of 2015.\u00a0For the 50ties celebration of the magazine in Rabat 2016 the former editor Abdellatif La\u00e2bi has created a cultural foundation to bring international researchers together, in which we will be all part of.<\/p>\n

The #02 edition of tricontinentale.net aims thus to celebrate on the\u00a0one hand the impressive\u00a0imaginative work of the former editors, writers and artists of the Souffles<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u00a0and\u00a0on the other asks \u00a0about its contemporary readings and interpretations\u00a0that are growing in the very moment. Before this background we will ask with this edition authors, artists and researchers\u00a0to reflect about the\u00a0relevance of\u00a0the concept\u00a0of a Decolonization of Culture,<\/strong> that was proposed by the radical intellectuals of the Souffles<\/em> network\u00a0and if and how this would\u00a0be\u00a0applicable under\u00a0the\u00a0contemporary condition and in\u00a0our work practices today.<\/p>\n

The action committee of #02 Don’t breath normal, read Souffles! <\/strong><\/em>consist of Olivier Hadouchi,\u00a0Serhat Karakayali, Kenza Sefrioui and Marion von Osten<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Kenza Sefrioui: Souffles (1966-1973)<\/strong>, espoirs de r\u00e9volution culturelle au Maroc (\u00c9ditions du Sirocco, 2013).[2]<\/a> See: http:\/\/www.springerin.at\/dyn\/heft_text.php?textid=1869&lang=de<\/a>; und http:\/\/www.red-thread.org\/en\/article.asp?a=41<\/a> (05\/15\/2015)\u00a0[3]<\/a> See: http:\/\/www.leslaboratoires.org\/en\/projet\/architectures-de-la-decolonisation\/architectures-de-la-decolonisation<\/a> ; and https:\/\/www.zhdk.ch\/index.php?id=73291<\/a> (05\/15\/2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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