23 Mar 2024
13:00 - 17:30
Symposium: Stressing Solidarity - Witnessing Palestine through Art and Architecture
Against the ongoing atrocities and massive annihilation of lives in Gaza, Framer Framed invites you to join Stressing Solidarity: four gatherings on Palestine in collaboration with the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam), De Appel, and Disarming Design from Palestine and Kunsthal Gent. Together with artists and academics, the series aims to foster connections with the Palestinian struggle and create a platform to consider implications on the future of Palestine.
The symposium initiated by the Teach-in Series workgroup of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam) on 23 March 2024 at Framer Framed attends to the arts and cultural heritage amid the ongoing genocide in Palestine. The symposium foregrounds the resilience and steadfastness of Palestinian artists, who hone their practices of archiving, witnessing, re-membering and reconstructing as tools of resistance. The accelerated destruction of treasured historical monuments, cultural centers and libraries and the day-to-day restrictions on artists and cultural activities represent a profound assault on the soul of a people, to which the world is yet to fully bear witness.
Programme
13:00 – 14:40
Panel Destruction and Restoration of Palestinian Heritage
Moderator: Chiara de Cesari
Speakers:
Arna Mačkić,
Ali T. As’ad and
Khaldun Bshara.
15:00 – 15:30
Sound Performance: Karmel Sabri
Moderator: Qais Assali
15:30 – 17:30
Panel Visualising Resistance as Artistic Practice: Recognising Palestinian Life
Moderator: Ilga Minjon
Speakers:
Aisha Mershani,
Qais Assali and
Karmel Sabri.
Location
Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093 KS, Amsterdam
The symposium is supported by Decolonial Futures and the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture at the University of Amsterdam.
Register here
Other Gatherings
Performance: Caer Ascendiendo (Fall Ascending)
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Location: De Appel
Full programme: Housewarming: Activations for a new location
Symposium: On artist-run solidarity platforms
Thursday, 21 March and Friday 22 March 2024
Location: Kunsthal Gent, Belgium
Full programme: Artist-run Solidarity Platforms
UvA teach-in: Witnessing Palestine Through Art
1-3pm, Friday, 22 March 2024
Location: University of Amsterdam, UvA OMHP D.008
With: Aisha Mershani,
Qais Assali and
Karmel Sabri.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
- Kunsthal Gent - Belgium
- Decolonial Futures - at UvA
- ASCA - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
- Disarming Design from Palestine
Links
Palestine / Colonial history / Art and Activism / Middle East / Political Climate /
Agenda
Reconstruction and Spatial Justice in Palestine
Seminar interrogating the role of architecture in reproducing cycles of destruction and domination in Palestine
Network
Ilga Minjon
Curator, researcher, and educator
Qais Assali
Artist
Aisha Mershani
Professor, Researcher
Chiara De Cesari
Professor, Researcher
Khaldun Bshara
Architect
Karmel Sabri
Artist
Ali T. As’ad
Researcher, curator, and architect
