‚Alger la Blanche‘ becomes ‚Alger la Rouge‘ – On the heritage of the anti-colonial movements in contemporary art

The dissertation project looks at contemporary artistic practices that deal with the revolutionary era of independent Algeria in the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. I will concentrate on four areas in the culture and society of the independent, revolutionary Algeria, in which particularly innovative and/or ambivalent (cultural) revolutionary practices were pursued at the time. These are the areas of media, internationalism, space and gender.