An anthology that accompanies Culturescapes 2023 Sahara, the 17th edition of the Swiss multidisciplinary festival. Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics, fictions, and movements of this vast desert and its myriad voices. Focused on the cultural productions, lines of political and aesthetic thought, and multiple epistemologies and cosmologies of the Sahara, and the accompanying Sahel, this book understands the region as both an ancient space of connection and circulation--from its northern to southern shores, its dunes and volcanic mountains, to its lusher savannahs--and as a contemporary site of exchange between strikingly singular societies and communities on all sides of the desert, that aspect of the Sahara most often imaged and imagined. If the Sahara is habitually narrated as a space of radical heat and intense light, and of barren-like emptiness, this anthology approaches the region with a decolonial lens that privileges the Saharan communities and nonhuman entities who live within all aspects of its circadian rhythms, including the constructive opacity of the desert night.
The violence of enlightenment and its imperialisms have often been practiced under the glare of some narcotic sun--the imaginaries of coloniality still do--yet in the desert, it was the elaborating darkness of its night skies, with their spectral constellations, that often directed caravans on their historical routes. They still do. Thus the thinkers, artists, poets, choreographers, composers, activists, elders, novelists, historians, and translators whose voices and sensibilities score and structure this anthology create a more full-spectrum and polyphonic sense of what the Sahara means, in all its waves and forms. Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future indicates a prismatic space of cultures, ecologies, knowledges, conflicts, languages, lights, and relations. That is, of numerous pasts and possible futures.
ContributorsMoussa Ag Assarid, Badi, Tewa Barnosa, Sam Berkson, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Binta Diaw, Mustafa El-Kattab, Rahima Gambo, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Monique Ilboudo, Asmaa Jama, Maryam Kazeem, Benaouda Lebdai, Nisrine Mbarki, Achille Mbembe, Yara Mekawei, Radouan Mriziga, Dorothée Munyaneza, Amy Niang, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Ben Okri, Beya Othmani, Felwine Sarr, Esther Severi, Jonas Staal, Mohamed Sulaiman, Wole Talabi
Copublished with Culturescapes
這是一本陪伴著 Culturescapes 2023 Sahara 的文集，該活動是瑞士多學科節慶的第17屆版本。
《撒哈拉：通往未來的千條道路》致力於探索這片廣闊沙漠及其無數聲音的思想、影像、詩學、政治、虛構和運動。本書關注撒哈拉和相關的撒赫勒地區的文化產出、政治和美學思想、多重認識論和宇宙論，將該地區理解為一個古老的連接和流通空間，從北岸到南岸、從沙丘和火山山脈到更為肥沃的草原，以及作為撒哈拉最常被描繪和想像的沙漠周圍各方的突出社會和社群之間的當代交流場所。如果撒哈拉經常被描述為極端炎熱和強烈光線的空間，以及貧瘠的空虛，那麼這本文集以解殖鏡頭來看待該地區，優先考慮生活在其日夜節律的所有方面中的撒哈拉社群和非人實體，包括沙漠夜晚的建設性不透明性。
啟蒙運動及其帝國主義的暴力往往在某種麻醉陽光的照耀下實施，殖民性的想像仍然如此，然而在沙漠中，正是其夜空中的黑暗，以其幽靈般的星座，常常指引著歷史上的商隊行進路線。它們至今仍然如此。因此，這本文集中的思想家、藝術家、詩人、編舞家、作曲家、活動家、長者、小說家、歷史學家和翻譯家們的聲音和感知，為撒哈拉的意義創造了更全譜和多聲部的理解，包括其各種波浪和形式。《撒哈拉：通往未來的千條道路》指出了一個文化、生態、知識、衝突、語言、光線和關係的多棱鏡空間，即無數的過去和可能的未來。
貢獻者：
Moussa Ag Assarid、Badi、Tewa Barnosa、Sam Berkson、Serge Aimé Coulibaly、Souleymane Bachir Diagne、Binta Diaw、Mustafa El-Kattab、Rahima Gambo、Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim、Monique Ilboudo、Asmaa Jama、Maryam Kazeem、Benaouda Lebdai、Nisrine Mbarki、Achille Mbembe、Yara Mekawei、Radouan Mriziga、Dorothée Munyaneza、Amy Niang、Temitayo Ogunbiyi、Ben Okri、Beya Othmani、Felwine Sarr、Esther Severi、Jonas Staal、Mohamed Sulaiman、Wole Talabi。
與 Culturescapes 共同出版。
Kateryna Botanova is a Basel-based cultural critic, curator, and writer. She co-curates a multidisciplinary biennial Culturescapes and co-edits its anthologies. She researches and writes on decoloniality and artistic practices in Eastern Europe and the Global South.
Yarri Kamara is a writer, translator, and policy researcher. She has spent the bulk of her life in West and East African countries. She is a member of UNESCO's 2005 Convention Expert Facility that provides cultural policy support to developing countries.
Quinn Latimer is a writer and editor. She was editor-in-chief of publications for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, and she is the editor or co-editor of numerous critical anthologies and artist catalogues.
