Antoine Idier
Antoine Idier is Associate Professor in Political Science at Sciences-Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye [https://www.sciencespo-saintgermainenlaye.fr/] and researcher at the CESDIP, Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales [https://www.cesdip.fr/].
His research focuses on sexuality and politics; he specialized in history of social movements and LGBTQI+ movements, history of ideas, queer theory as well as contemporary visual art and literature. He notably published a biography of the French gay activist, writer and theoretician Guy Hocquenghem (Les Vies de Guy Hocquenghem, 2017), a book on LGBTQI+ archives (Archives des mouvements LGBT+, 2018) and a book on the visual artist Michel Journiac and AIDS (Pureté et impureté de l’art, 2019). He also edited a collection of press articles by Guy Hocquenghem (2017) and a collection of writings by yann beauvais on experimental cinema (2022). He is also the author of many book chapters and contributions to art catalogs.
In 2019 he was awarded a Archives Research Residency Fellowship by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (New York).
At Sciences-Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he is the director of the Master Degree in artistic and cultural policy. He also organizes the international summer school “Culture and Politics in Contemporary France”.
Recent publications
(as curator and editor)
Antoine Idier, Dans les marges. Trente ans du fonds Michel Chomarat à la bibliothèque de Lyon, Lyon, Mémoire active, 2022, catalog of the exhibition held at the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, 2022-2023;
(as editor)
yann beauvais. Agir le cinéma. Écrits sur le cinéma expérimental (1979-2022), Dijon, Les Presses du réel, 2022;
(as author)
Introduction to Christian Maurel, Screwball Asses, Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2023;
“Art, Politics, Controversies—AIDS and its Responsibilities”, Every Moment Counts. AIDS and its Feelings, edited by Ana María Bresciani and Tommaso Speretta, Oslo: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 2022 (catalog of the exhibition held à HOK, 2022);
“Silent Voices: The 'Arabs' and Gay Liberation in France”, Queer Print in Europe, edited by Glyn Davis and Laura Guy London: Bloomsbury, 2022;
“The Voices of Reappropriation”, Abdellah Taïa's Queer Migrations: Non-Places, Affect, and Temporalities, edited by Denis Provencher and Siham Bouamer, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021;
Pureté et impureté de l’art. Michel Journiac et le SIDA, Rennes: Sombres torrents, 2019
Pic by Arsène Marquis
