About the part that art plays in a globalising society

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Wassila Abboud

Wassila Abboud is a cultural worker and writer researching in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her work engages with critical theory, philosophy, and visual culture and takes on a speculative and materialist approach, examining the conditions of past and present historical struggles – particularly through the philosophical and theoretical works of Mahdi Amel. Through intergenerational archives, essays, film, and diagrammatic forms, she examines how the histories imposed on us in the present can be read through past fragments and inheritances. Her approach moves beyond the separation of the personal, theoretical, and historical, treating their entanglement as both a field and a medium for radical social thought. She recently completed a philosophy fellowship with Foreign Objekt and has presented research at International Institute of Social History, W139, Perdu and Gemaal op Zuid in the Netherlands, and upcoming at West Space in Melbourne.


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Re:Use Clinic #5: The Question of Culture

A conversation on the legacies of the MENA and Iranian Left within archive collections and heritage institutions.

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