Souffles, published in Rabat from 1966-72, has often been perceived as an avant-garde literary magazine, seldom as a transnational and transdisciplinary enterprise representing translocal discourses in the visual arts and film, and publishing manifestos and statements from the Tricontinental solidarity movement. Relations and transfers among radical art practices and anti-colonial discourses, the conditions of their production, as well as the transnational context in which aesthetic proposals have emerged and circulated, are of primary interest to me as an artist, writer and film- and exhibition-maker today; in the first place in the search for intergenerational affinities across the Mediterranean beyond the common binary descriptions of an African and European cultural production; and secondly, because relations expressed in the magazine, from local craft production to the re-reading of the Bauhaus legacies, also point to discussions around transculturation, pre-capitalist economies, pedagogical turns and the societal function of culture production and the arts.
