On February 20th, Allies Julie Billaud, Alessandro Chidichimo, Miriam Odoni, Marie-Claire Peytrignet, together with other members of the Swiss-based non-profit association Programme Indépendant de Recherche (PIR) which also hosts our beloved website Allegralaboratory.net, organized a “boxed conference” at Fonderie Kugler in Geneva.
Yoann Kongolo, a Swiss kick-boxing champion, and Akim Oualhaci, a French sociologist specializing in combat sports, came together on a ring created by artist Thomas Schunke especially for this occasion, for a performance combining sociology and a boxing lesson. While Oualhaci talked about his research in boxing clubs in the working-class neighborhoods of Paris and New York, Yoann Kongolo introduced the audience to a few kick-boxing moves. A punchy and joyful experimentation with Pierre Bourdieu’s motto: “Sociology is a combat sport”.
The film-story of the event was produced by the experimental graphic studio leidyi.com
