Anti/postcolonialism/imperialism

If France is a land of immigration, what about its variété genre? This issue of Volume! aims at tracing the French paths of artists of foreign origin—those who integrated the legacy of chanson française, and those who left a mark on their community by singing exile. As a protean form of expression, variété is an ideal object to observe the ways in which immigrant and foreign identities have been moulded in post-1945 popular music.

Before History catalogues the exhibition for the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015, which includes a new body of work by Yto Barrada, the winner of the prize, and existing work by shortlisted artists Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, and Mounira Al Solh.

The European colonial heritage revisited: Meessen invited ten international artists to think the colonial modernity and connect it with the history of avant-garde, political and independence movements (catalogue of the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale).

A series of provocative projects by the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) that try to imagine “the morning after revolution.”

The “Scenario” issue investigates narrative and speculative processes within both poetic and political fields (science fiction, geopolitics, universal and colonial exhibitions…)

Susan Hiller's postcard alphabet.

Reference monograph.

Reference monograph (available in English edition).

Contemporary art and the “colonial present.”

The annotated facsimile of the original Portuguese edition of Aimé Césaire's fundamental anticolonial text from 1950, banned during the Portuguese dictatorship (but clandestinely published by Filipa César's father in 1971).

On “heretical Orientalism”: the Sicilian Inquisition in the 17th century, the works of Bahman Mohassess, Marwan, the poems of Etel Adnan…

A dialogue between two singular appropriations of the concept of cannibalism at two key historical moments: a new translation of Oswald de Andrade's cult poem, advocating the symbolic ingestion of the colonizer and his culture, faced with an analysis by Suely Rolnik of a perverted contemporary cannibalism experience in the context of financial capitalism.

This issue explores the legacy of the mythological, religious, and scientific figures from modern Orientalism.

Artist's book (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages).

The first French translation of a selection of texts by Bolivian sociologist and intellectual Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: a way of thinking with and through images that challenges the distinction between scholarly knowledge and political practice, at the intersection of sociology, visual studies, and decolonial thought.