Recover, amplify, reimagine: Transnational solidarities and anticolonial utopias in Dreams Have No Titles by Zineb Sedira

IF 0.7 4区社会学 Q3 CULTURAL STUDIES

French Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2026-02-26 DOI:10.1177/09571558261423868

Amanda Tavares

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This article analyses Dreams Have No Titles (2022), a multidisciplinary and immersive installation by UK-based, French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira. Commissioned for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, the project takes inspiration from the anticolonial and self-determining spirit of early post-independent Algeria, as well as activist films co-produced in the 1960s, 70s and 80s between Algeria, France and Italy. Following the multidirectional character of Sedira's work, this article first offers an overview of the installation and the many cultural references it contains. It then looks at the artist's mobilisation of personal narratives of migration and diaspora in relation to previous forms of cultural and political struggle, highlighting the cross-temporal and transnational effects of colonialism, but also many forms of resistance to it. It also explains how Dreams Have No Titles amplifies learnings from internationalist filmmaking in Algeria, especially through the prisms of relationality, solidarity and imagined possibility. Finally, the article discusses how Dreams Have No Titles reactivates utopias and political communities through strategies of mise en abyme, audience engagement, multi-platform referencing and do-it-yourself techniques, opening up paths for the production and transmission of transnational, cross-generational sociopolitical knowledge.

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恢复，扩大，重新想象：跨国团结和反殖民乌托邦的梦想没有标题，由Zineb Sedira

本文分析了来自英国的法裔阿尔及利亚艺术家Zineb Sedira的作品《Dreams Have No Titles》（2022），这是一件多学科的沉浸式装置作品。该项目受第59届威尼斯双年展法国馆委托，灵感来自阿尔及利亚独立后早期的反殖民和自决精神，以及阿尔及利亚、法国和意大利在20世纪60年代、70年代和80年代联合制作的激进主义电影。鉴于Sedira作品的多向性，本文首先概述了该装置及其包含的许多文化参考。然后，它着眼于艺术家对移民和散居的个人叙述的动员，与以前的文化和政治斗争形式有关，突出了殖民主义的跨时间和跨国影响，以及对它的多种形式的抵抗。影片还解释了《梦无标题》如何通过关系、团结和想象的可能性等角度，放大了阿尔及利亚国际主义电影制作的经验。最后，本文讨论了《梦无标题》如何通过“就地解决”、观众参与、多平台参考和自己动手技术等策略，重新激活乌托邦和政治社区，为跨国、跨代的社会政治知识的生产和传播开辟了道路。

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French Cultural Studies Multiple-

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期刊介绍： French Cultural Studies is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes international research on all aspects of French culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Articles are welcome on such areas as cinema, television and radio, the press, the visual arts, popular culture, cultural policy and cultural and intellectual debate. French Cultural Studies is designed to respond to the important changes that have affected the study of French culture, language and society in all sections of the education system. The journal encourages and provides a forum for the full range of work being done on all aspects of modern French culture.