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In Fellows

Brian Valente-Quinn

Brian is Associate Professor of Francophone African Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on theatre and performance in the Francophone World, especially in West Africa and France. His publications include Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa, as well an interdisciplinary range of scholarly articles on francophone African literature and performance. In the 2023-2024 academic year, Brian was a Fulbright scholar at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.  
 

Staging Extremism in the Francophone World: Performance and Radicalization in West Africa and France

Brian’s research project explores francophone theatre artists’ local and transnational responses to the rise of extremism in multiple forms and trajectories across the Francophone World. The interdisciplinary project considers aesthetic interventions as well as the effects of cultural policies and colonial and postcolonial histories to explore the possibilities and limits of the stage as a tool for preventing radicalization.
 

Contact

Click HERE to mail Brian and HERE for a list of his publications.
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4 May 2025
In Fellows

Julian Warner

Julian Warner is an artist and curator. He is the current artistic director of the Brechtfestival Augsburg and a performer and musician going by the stage name of Fehler Kuti. He is the editor of an anthology on questions regarding decolonial critique in Germany After Europe. Beiträge zur dekolonialen Kritik (Verbrecher Verlag, 2021) and was a visiting professor for dramaturgy at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 2022-23. Julian joined global dis:connect as an artist fellow.        

The curator as an ethnographer

During his fellowship at global dis:connect, Julian will critically reflect on his curatorial practice, which positions itself at the intersection of globally circulating symbolic goods and locally specific contexts. Which contradictions and conflicts arise when international artists and projects engage with local institutions, audiences, and struggles? How may we further our understanding of such overdetermined constellations?

 

Find out more about the workshop Julian organized before his fellowship at the Brechtfestival.

 

Contact

Click HERE to mail Julian and HERE for more info on his work.   Continue Reading
11 February 2025