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Artist Dossier« Cartographier la survivance : Al Anqaâ de Taysir Batniji »Intermédialités, issue 47 • spring 2026, p. 355–366. Depuis l’occupation coloniale de la Palestine en 1920, la nuit est devenue un territoire contesté et souvent restreint. L’imposition de couvre-feux, les affrontements ainsi que les dispositifs de surveillance transforment l’espace public nocturne en un lieu hostile et hautementContinueContinue reading “Artist Dossier | Cartographier la survivance : Al Anqaâ de Taysir Batniji”

Unlike official maps, which are inseparable from power, counter-mapping refers to alternative, citizen-led, Indigenous, activist, or artistic initiatives that challenge the established order. While the term counter-mapping has been widely adopted by geographers to address issues of boundary-making, territorial management, and governance, it has received relatively little attention as a practice in its own right. This issue of Intermédialités seeks to address this gap by examining the ways in which art history and media studies can contribute to the field of counter-mapping. Maps are approached as images endowed with histories and agencies of their own. Beyond representation, an intermedial approach makes it possible to understand the full range of conditions that shape the production, circulation, and efficacy of maps, while also attending to the tensions, fractures, and forms of resistance that run through them.