ENQUETER/ TRANSCRIRE
Poésie Plate-forme’s guests for this session are the poet and artist Franck Leibovici and the legal scholar Julien Séroussi. Together they have worked on a book (bogoro) and a series of exhibitions (law intensity conflicts).
They draw on transcripts and material entered as evidence at the first trial held at the International Criminal Court between 2007 and 2014 over crimes committed in Ituri in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, teasing out connections between the tools used to create art and poetry and those used in the social sciences and law to give an account of the ongoing invention of international justice, for which the ICC – founded in 1998 – is the first testing ground.
BIOGRAPHIES
Franck LEIBOVICI
Franck Leibovici is a poet and artist. His publications include quelques storyboards, ubuweb, 2003; 9+11, ubuweb, 2005; des documents poétiques, Al Dante, 2007; portraits chinois, Al Dante, 2007; (des formes de vie) – une écologie des pratiques artistiques, Questions théoriques / Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, 2012; lettres de jérusalem with Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, spam, 2012; filibuster (une lecture), Jeu de Paume, 2013; and des récits ordinaires with Grégory Castéra and Yaël Kreplak, Les Presses du réel, 2014. He has spent several years working with notation systems from experimental music, dance, and conversation analysis to create a mini-opera for non-musicians, which is not intended to be a live performance, with « low intensity » conflicts as its theme. The ten sequences from this mini-opera for non-musicians have been presented in museums, arts venues, music festivals, and dance centres, in France and elsewhere.
Julien SEROUSSI
Julien Seroussi holds a PhD in sociology. His interest in international criminal justice grew out of his thesis on legal and political battles over the definition of universal jurisdiction for national judges. Having spent 2009 to 2012 working at the International Criminal Court, he is now a member of the division that works on genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes at the high court in Paris. He has published a number of articles in France and elsewhere based on his research, in publications including Critique Internationale, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, L’Année sociologique and edited collections such as Lawyers and the Construction of International Justice (Yves Dezalay & Bryant Garth, eds., Routledge, 2012).