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[Archives] Bouchra Khalili, An Audio Family Album #1 - Abbas et le Sociologue with Abdellali Hajjat (FR)


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For two decades, Bouchra Khalili’s work has articulated contemporary migratory trajectories, colonial continuum, and the politics of memory of internationalist struggles and collective emancipation. In An Audio Family Album, Bouchra Khalili continues her investigation of Al Assifa’s methodology based on the dying tradition of Al-halqa, the oldest performing art in North Africa. Collaborating with a younger generation of members of the same communities living nowadays in Europe, she proposes an online archive of voices, bringing together stories of emancipation that have helped shape the memories and contemporary strategies of diaspora struggles and that, through this process, are passed on from one generation to the next.

Episode #1: Abbas et le sociologue avec Abdellali Hajjat

EN - Abdellali Hajjat is a Brussels-based sociologist and political scientist, the son of a Moroccan migrant worker living in France. In this examination of an interview between Abdelmalek Sayad – who was central to the introduction of the study of migration in French sociology – and Abbas, an Algerian immigrant, Abdellali meditates on exile and conflicted feelings generated by the lives in transit of first-generation immigrants. Finally, after reading this interview, Abdellali invites us to reflect on the silenced and untold stories of his father’s generation.

FR - Abdellali Hajjat est sociologue et politologue. Fils d’un travailleur marocain immigré en France, Abdellali Hajjat vit quand à lui à Bruxelles. À partir de l’analyse d’une interview entre Abdelmalek Sayad (le fondateur en France de la sociologie de l’immigration) et Abbas (un immigré algérien), Abdellali Hajjat propose une réflexion sur l’exil et les sentiments contradictoires engrangés par les vies en transit des immigrés de première génération. Mais à travers son interprétation de cette interview, c’est à repenser l’invisibilité des histoires, jamais racontées, de la génération de son père qu’Abdellali Hajjat nous invite.

NL - Abdellali Hajjat is socioloog en politiek wetenschapper die in Brussel gevestigd is en zoon van een Marokkaanse gastarbeider die in Frankrijk leeft. In deze analyse van een interview tussen Abdelmalek Sayad – de oprichter van de Franse sociologie van migratie – en Abbas, een Algerijns immigrant, reflecteert Abdellali over ballingschap en de conflictueuze gevoelens die ontstonden in de levens van onderweg-zijn van de eerste generatie immigranten. Door het lezen van dit interview nodigt Abdellali ons tot slot uit om na te denken over de ongekende en verzwegen verhalen van zijn vaders generatie.

A project by Bouchra Khalili, initiated and coproduced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2020 in the context of The Diasporic Schools.

More info: https://kfda.be/en/festivals/2020-edition/programme/an-audio-family-album/

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