Since its creation, Qalqalah قلقلة has been particularly focused on the political stakes posed by language and language learning in the context of migration, especially in France. For this workshop, Virginie Bobin and Victorine Grataloup invite the researcher Myriam Suchet, and the artist and publisher Achim Lengerer/Scriptings, one of the collaborators to the collective project Man schenkt keinen Hund [You don’t give a dog as a present], initiated by the artist and teacher in “integration courses” Christine Lemke in 2016 in Berlin. Man schenkt keinen Hund was interested in the pedagogical books for German as a Second Language as used in the so-called “integration courses” that are imposed by German law on anyone wishing to obtain a residence permit. The project gave rise to an exhibition and a book, proposing various artistic, theoretical and militant approaches or strategies to put into question discourses on “national identity” around the concept of “integration”.
The workshop “Entrer dans la langue” aims to transpose some of the artistic, poetic and critical methodologies experimented, among others, in Man schenkt keinen Hund to the study of textbooks for learning French as a Foreign Language (FLE). The workshop is primarily intended for people concerned with the teaching and learning of FLE, and the linguistic, pedagogical, legal and political issues involved. Invitations will be sent through the Kunsthalle Mulhouse to the associations and higher education institutions with which it has forged links over the years.
On Friday, April 9, a public event with Achim Lengerer/Scriptings (from the collective project Man schenkt keinen Hund) and researcher Myriam Suchet will provide an opportunity to present and discuss the methodologies and challenges developed during the workshop. To be confirmed.
