Curatorial note
For Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies the researcher Samia Henni was invited by programme curator Megan Hoetger to develop a new project related to her ongoing research into the French nuclear detonation programmes in the Algerian Sahara. What has emerged is Performing Colonial Toxicity, an expansive research project unfolding across a multimedia immersive installation (7 October 2023 – 14 January 2024; co-produced with Framer Framed, Amsterdam), an experimental repository publication (forthcoming November 2023; co-published with Framer Framed and Edition Fink, Zurich), and – what visitors find here in ificantdance.studio – an online Testimony Translation Project, which begins the long process of digitalizing and translating over seven hundred pages of written and oral testimonies from French and Algerian victims of the nuclear blasts. From each of these platforms Henni experiments with performative modes of exposing and spatializing the inaccessible classified archives of this violent history.
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Testimonies
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Testimony of Algerian victims, collected by Solange Fernex ›››
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Testimony of Algerian victims, collected by Solange Fernex ›››
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Testimony of Algerian victims, collected by Solange Fernex ›››
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Testimony of Aicha, collected by Bruno Hadjih ›››
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Testimony of Amoud ag Boudjamaa, collected by Bruno Hadjih ›››
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Testimony from CIMETIÈRE SQT, collected by Bruno Hadjih ›››
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Testimony of Khanoufa Tradyut, collected by Bruno Hadjih ›››
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Testimony of Saliat Ali, collected by Bruno Hadjih ›››
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Testimony of Hammouch Abdel Kader ben Ali, collected by Bruno Hadjih ›››
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Testimony of Mahamed ag Rali, collected by Bruno Hadjih ›››
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Testimony of Oum-el Kher, collected by Bruno Hadjih ›››
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Testimony of Joël L, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Gérard D, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Vincent G, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Colonel C, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Germaine T, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Christian L, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Jacque L, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Gérard C, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Warnier G, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Bardou S, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Pierre L, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Georges L, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Jean-Paul D, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Guy S, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Marcel M, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Robert D, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Romeo C, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of H. d.V, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Maryse M, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Viviane G, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Lucien P, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Hervé B, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Daniel M, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Jean-Luc D, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Alain C, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Pierre C, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Domenique M, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Patrice C, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
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Testimony of Robert B, collected by Observatoire des armements ›››
Acknowledgements
Special thanks go to the twenty translator-participants who have committed their time to translating Henni’s selection of testimonies, including: Raoul Audouin, Adel Ben Bella, Omar Berrada, Megan Brown, Séverine Chapelle, Simona Dvorák, Hanieh Fatouree, Alessandro Felicioli, Anik Fournier, Jill Jarvis, Augustin Jomier, Timothy Scott Johnson, Anna Kimmel, Corentin Lécine, Natasha Llorens, Miriam Matthiesen, Martine Neddam, M’hamed Oualdi, Roxanne Panchasi and Alice Rougeaux. Learn more about each of the translator-participants here ›››
Samia Henni would also like to extend her most sincere gratitude to Marley Barnes, Bruno Barrillot, Larbi Benchiha, Frederique Bergholtz, Cas Bool, Patrice Bouveret and the collaborators and partners of the Observatoire des armements, François Girard-Meunier, Bruno Hadjih, Megan Hoetger, Elisabeth Leuvrey, Ashley Maum, Jean Medina, Josien Pieterse, Georg Rutishauser, Pascal Schwaighofer, and all those who contributed to this project and who asked to remain anonymous.
Funding support for the Tamazight-to-French translation of Algerian testimonies has generously been provided by Dr. Roxanne Panchasi, Associate Professor, Department of History, Simon Fraser University.
Samia Henni would also like to extend her most sincere gratitude to Marley Barnes, Bruno Barrillot, Larbi Benchiha, Frederique Bergholtz, Cas Bool, Patrice Bouveret and the collaborators and partners of the Observatoire des armements, François Girard-Meunier, Bruno Hadjih, Megan Hoetger, Elisabeth Leuvrey, Ashley Maum, Jean Medina, Josien Pieterse, Georg Rutishauser, Pascal Schwaighofer, and all those who contributed to this project and who asked to remain anonymous.
Funding support for the Tamazight-to-French translation of Algerian testimonies has generously been provided by Dr. Roxanne Panchasi, Associate Professor, Department of History, Simon Fraser University.