The Funambolist

THE FUNAMBULIST

WHERE Paris, France
PEOPLE Léopold Lambert (b. Paris, France, 1985)

A platform established in 2010 by Léopold Lambert that deals with the ‘politics of space and body’ – a project that brings together the voices of activists, scholars, and practitioners to discuss critical issues of modernity, focusing in particular on the intrinsic violence that architecture perpetrates on bodies and on architecture’s political instrumentalization on various scales and in various geographical contexts. Using articles, interviews, podcasts, essays, and cultural events, the project has assembled an ongoing archive of anti-colonial, anti-racist, queer, and feminist struggle memorialized on a bimonthly paper and web magazine (since 2015), together with by a blog and a podcast.

SIGNS

  • States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum, Premiers Matins de Novembre, 2021
  • The Funambulist by its Readers: Political Geographies from Chicago and Elsewhere, commissioned by Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2019
  • Topie impitoyable. Politiche corporali riguardo l’abbigliamento, le mura e le strade, Deleyva editore, 2015
MAGAZINE