With Jean D’Amérique
Published by Urubu and the Museo delle Periferie in Rome
Originally published as a series of videos made for the Museo delle Periferie in Roma, it has been diffused online in the occasion of the IPER festival. A pdf version is currently on the making.
The fifth issue focuses on the theme of the peripheries.
This is here understood not only as an urbanistic biais but as a relational concept between two dichotomous subjectivities such as the the world as the periphery of the Occident, idleness as the periphery of rationality, women as the periphery of men, the migrant sans papiers as the periphery of the European citizen, the racised people as the periphery of the dominant group, the exploited as the periphery of the exploiter.
David Liver and Massimo Mazzone discuss this with artists Nicoletta Braga, Mijo Miquel, Daniela Ortiz and Salomè Rodriguez.
Florent Delval extensive conversation with Haitian poet and playwright Jean D’Amérique tackles the marginality of language and the cultural relationships between its centers and its peripheries.
“The Creole is still at the peripheries of French
Jean D’Amérique
as the language of the non educated”