Author Biography
Joan Grandjean is a PhD candidate at the University of Geneva. His research focusses on science fiction in the Arab geocultural space contemporary art. Since the early 2000s, “Futurist“ aesthetics have created new imaginaries as tools for questioning, criticizing and telling new narratives about the history, cultural Arabness, political interests and conflicts of the Arab countries. After studying performing arts, visual arts and art history in Lyon, Utrecht and Rennes, he worked at the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut as a research officer. Grandjean has been Silvia Naef’s assistant for the last two years and is a founding member of Manazir, Swiss Platform for the Study of Visual Arts, Architecture and Heritage in the MENA Region and Manazir Journal.
