Live conversation HOME #2: The Nakba, Heritage and Cultural Memory 27 Aug 2017
15:00 - 17:00
Live conversation HOME #3: The political construction of HOME
On Sunday August 27th the third event and live conversation in the context of our exhibition HOMEĀ (2017) will take place at Framer Framed. The focus is on the political construction of āhomeā within the Gazan context.
How can you build a home in a place where home, in the physical and symbolic sense, is constantly being destroyed or threatened? What are the conditions for something to be called home and how can these conditions be reached in a destructive and violent place?
We will go into a live Skype conversation with Gaza, with guest speakers both in Amsterdam and Gaza, from the start-up hub Gaza Sky Geeks. The conversation will be moderated by Chris Keulemans.
On the speakers
In Amsterdam, at Framer Framed:
Hagar Kotef will join the conversation from our exhibition space in Amsterdam. She is a Senior Lecturer of Political Theory and Comparative Political Thought at the Department of Politics and International Relations, SOAS, The University of London. She is the author of Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility (Duke University Press, 2015).
Palestinian Fares Al Qadi was born and raised in Abu Dhabi (UAE), moved to Syria to study (BA Telecommunication Engineering) and worked at an NGO before he came to the Netherlands. He has been working at theĀ Refugee CompanyĀ (atĀ Lola Lik) as event manager for almost a year and lives and works atĀ Startblok RiekerhavenĀ (a housing project for young people, both Dutch as status holders).
In Gaza, from Gaza Sky Geeks:
Omar Shaban lives in Gaza and will join us via Skype. He is the founding director of PalThink for Strategic Studies, a ‘non-profit, non-political, non-governmental and non-sectarian think and do tank that aims to stimulate and inspire rational public discussions and consensus for the well-being of the Palestinians and the region.’
Associate professor of political science at Al Azhar University (Gaza) Mkhaimar Saud Abusada, will also join the conversation from Gaza via Skype.
Moderator
Chris Keulemans is a Dutch writer, journalist and teacher. He grew up in Baghdad, Iraq. Keulemans was artistic director of the Tolhuistuin until September 2014. In 1984 he founded the literary bookshop Perdu in Amsterdam. During the nineties, Keulemans worked at De Balie, Centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam, first as a curator, later as director. He has published books, fiction and nonfiction, as well as numerous articles on art, social movements, migration, music, cinema and war for national newspapers.
On the exhibition HOME
What does it mean to be forced to flee your home and become internally displaced? What is the meaning of the word āhomeā in the context of war, diaspora, exclusion, and displacement? These questions are central to the exhibition HOME, curated by Meta Knol, with the photographic works of Destroyed House Gaza (2016-2017) by Dutch artist Marjan Teeuwen, and video blogs made by Palestinian photographer Ezz Al Zanoon and journalist Rawan Mahady.
Middle East / Palestine /
Exhibitions
Exhibition: HOME
With work by Marjan Teeuwen, Ezz Al Zanoon and Rawan Mahady, curated by Meta Knol
Agenda
Live conversation HOME #4: The politics of autonomous art
A panel discussion in the context of the exhibition 'HOME' about the supposed neutrality of autonomous art
Live conversation HOME #1: Imaginations of HOME
An event in the context of exhibition HOME.
Network
Chris Keulemans
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