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Part of the Lecture
Barthes, Queer Before Queer? : A Journey Into Barthes’s Visual Culture /
Magali Nachtergael is associate professor of 20th and 21st century French literature at Université Paris 13 as well as an art critic. She is the author of Barthes Contemporain (2015) and Les mythologies individuelles. Récit de soi et photographie au XXème siècle (2012). In 2015 she curated the exhibitions Lumières de Roland Barthes in Bordeaux and Orthez, and she co-curated the exhibition The Family of the Invisibles in Seoul in 2016. A specialist of the relations of art and literature, her works focus on the relations of text and image (photography, contemporary art, media) and on Roland Barthes.
Part of the Symposium
Barthes by the Margins /
Engaging with Barthes’s politics of in/visibility in a broad sense, this workshop will interrogate the centrality of the margins in Roland Barthes’ works and explore their underlying visual universe. Acclaimed for his decipherings of everyday mythologies, Barthes not only developed a wide set of tools and concepts to deconstruct the ideologies governing the visible: his critique of cultural stereotypes, his new approach to literature and the arts always go hand in hand with a reflection on the margins and a commitment to minorities.
Magali Nachtergael will guide our discussion of pre-circulated texts. By confronting some of Barthes’ central concepts with the visual universe that innervates them, Nachtergael will help us ask how what is left in the margins can sometimes crucially shift perspectives on the reception of these concepts.Programme:
16:00-18:00 Workshop
19:30 Evening Keynote by Magali Nachtergael
Barthes, Queer Before Queer? A Journey Into Barthes’s Visual Culture
Followed by a roundtable discussion with Julie Gaillard, Francesco Giusti, and Dirk Naguschewski
Venue
ICI Berlin(Click for further documentation)
With
Magali NachtergaelOrganized by
Julie GaillardFrancesco Giusti