Susan HARROW

Project at the MaCI

April 2025 – June 2025
 

This book project proposes a major re-conceptualisation of the inter-disciplinary thought and writing of Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) – Polish-Italian-born French modernist poet, novelist, pornographer, visual artist, art essayist, dramatist, journalist, traveller, prisoner, democrat, medievalist, critical Futurist, proto-Surrealist, and all-round cultural insider-outsider. The project will reveal Apollinaire’s inter-cultural imagining in areas of migration, multi-culturalism, community, solitude, identities, sensory landscapes, race, nationhood, environment, technology, emotion, sexuality, belief (Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, atheist), and multi-form creativity. Investigating for the first time – and connecting – the transhistorical axes and the global latitudes of Apollinaire’s writing: – Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Mexico, Oceania, Persia/Iran, the Eurasian Steppe – the project will make a critical breakthrough in Apollinaire studies and contribute to wider humanities initiatives in de-centring and de-westernising the canons of European literary modernism.

Enabled by the resources of the SonImage laboratory at MACI, particularly for its filmmaking and film-viewing resources. Posthuman studies (which is an integral thematic area of my Apollinaire book project) will be the focus for a collaboration involving literary and cultural scholars and advanced-level students (doctorant(e)s), and other specialists/practitioners in order to explore and develop the visual, acoustic, and kinaesthetic aspects of the posthuman imaginary.
 

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Funded by the French government's Programme d'Investissement Avenir and implemented by ANR France 2030