Panel discussion and book launch with Bambi Ceuppens, Liesbeth Minnaard, Irit Rogoff and Bruno Zhu
M HKA is pleased to invite you to a Fiction Non Fiction panel discussion bringing together Bambi Ceuppens, Liesbeth Minnaard, Irit Rogoff, the authors participating in the eponymous cahier that will be launched on the same day.
Fiction Non Fiction is a series of readers initiated by artist Bruno Zhu that pairs voices engaged in literary criticism with the material histories of labour, gender, and race. Each publication proposes a close-reading of fictitious and theoretical works to understand how identity politics have been narrativized by liberal institutions across space and time.
Cahier I, is the second publication of the Fiction Non Fiction series. It addresses the ‘fictioning’ of the migrant subject with a commissioned introduction by Irit Rogoff and reprinted texts by Liesbeth Minnaard and Bambi Ceuppens. The publication departs from the Dutch-speaking world to unpack nationalist tendencies set off by the arrival of the migrant.
Programme
14:00 Welcome
Introduction: Irit Rogoff’s introduction articulates ‘propositionality’ as a paradigm shift.
Fiction: Liesbeth Minnaard reconsiders Moving Moroccan Memories: Hafid Bouazza’s Critical Re-Vision of Abdullah’s Feet a research text she published in 2010. The text highlights the several movements embedded in the writing and publishing of Moroccan-Dutch writer Hafid Bouazza’s short story titled De oversteek [The Crossing].
Non Fiction: Bambi Ceuppens reconsiders Allochthons, Colonizers, and Scroungers: Exclusionary Populism in Belgium, a research text she published in 2006. Bambi Ceuppens recounts the presence of autochthony discourses in Flanders, and how they embolden the refusal to share welfare resources with immigrants.
15:45 Break (30″)
16:15 Panel discussion (45″)
Practical information
Fiction Non Fiction
Wednesday 23 April 2025, 14:00 – 17:00
In Situ space, ground floor, M HKA
In English
Free access
This event is programmed on the occasion of Out Bruno Zhu’s commission currently on view in M HKA’s In Situ’s exhibition space.
