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Léopold Lambert – Paris on April 18, 2016 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! It has been a little while since I knew that two new books I wrote would be published around the same time. While the second one will exist in bilingual French/English version (more about...

This conversation with Karim Kattan introduces the art residency he recently created in Jericho. Entitled el-Atlal (the ruins), this residency allows us to discuss about the political strategy that this Palestinian cultural project intends to adopt and, beyond it, also the concept of ruin in Palestine, as well as this very particular place in the Jordan Valley, a “central...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on December 12, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! After a reinvigorating large meeting against islamophobia and the state of emergency in Saint Denis (Paris’ immediate Northern banlieue) yesterday, I want to attempt giving an architectural account of the 2,500 police perquisitions and the 400...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on December 3, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! On November 10th, I was invited by friend Meriem Chabani to give a small lecture in Paris in the context of the exhibition New South that she curated around six architecture students’ thesis projects engaging cities of...

Article commissioned and published by Warscapes on July 30, 2015 about the “Black Friday” report by Forensic Architecture and Amnesty International and the links that can be drawn between the Palestinian and African American struggles. Part 1: Hannibal Directive On July 2, 2015, architect and intellectual Eyal Weizman gave a lecture at the Médecins Sans Frontières headquarters in...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on July 27, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! In 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni released his first English-language film, Blow Up, in which he introduces a photographer played by David Hemmings, who realizes in his dark room that he may have captured the evidence of...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on July 23, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! A few days ago, Orit Theuer, a recent graduate from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, shared with me her thesis project (2014) investigating the 1949 Armistice Line between Israel and the Palestinian territories on...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on July 17, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! “The Political” Interview for C-O-L-O-N (Columbia University GSAPP) Volume III alongside Bernard Tschumi, Peggy Deamer & Paul Segal, Eyal Weizman, Ai Weiwei, Mary Mc Leod & Rheinhold Martin, and Cristina Goberna. See website for...

Léopold Lambert – Paris on June 16, 2015 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! Two recent events involving the policed/militarized evacuation of a swimming pool based on the ethnicity of the swimmers have recently came to light. 1. McKinney, U.S. /// On June 6, 2015, in McKinney, a suburban...