Screening & artist talk
(Conversation in French with simultaneous translation into English)
With Bouba Touré & Raphaël Grisey

The newest film (work in progress) by Raphaël Grisey in collaboration with Boube Touré chronicles the ongoing developments and practices of Somankidi Coura, a self-organized farming cooperative along the Senegal river founded by a group of former African migrant workers and activists in France in 1977 after the Sahel drought of 1973. The film focuses on narrating the history of migrant workers’ struggle in France, peasant infrastructures and networks, and the afterlife of colonial developmentalism and forced labor violence.

Following the screening of the film, Raphaël Grisey and Boube Touré will engage in a conversation about the cooperative and their process of documenting their work, different forms of engagement, and the broader implications of telling these stories. The discussion will be held in French. Simultaneous translations will be available in English and German.

The event will be streamed via The Shape of a Practice online environment: http://shape.anthropocene-curriculum.org