Refugee Heritage conversations: Khaldun Bshara, “Camps as Heritage”
Completing the nomination form of Dheisheh as a World Heritage Site was never truly the goal of Refugee Heritage. Rather, it has always been more about the failure of fulfilling this process. Failure,...
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Across the landscape of Palestinian displacement and throughout the seventy years of exile, refugee camps have been regular targets of state and militia violence. Israeli forces attacked the Bureij...
View ArticleRefugee Heritage conversations: Pelin Tan, “Camps as Trans-Local Commons”
The camp is a vulnerable space. It is constituted by its thresholds and the exchanges that take place across it. It is a space of small economic initiatives and heterogenous commoning practices that...
View ArticleRefugee Heritage conversations: Ismae’l Sheikh Hassan, “Illusions and Wizardry”
It would not be surprising if most official and state actors would be very uncomfortable with nominating Palestinian refugee camps as world heritage site. Official Palestinian discourse insists on the...
View ArticleRefugee Heritage conversations: Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, “The Coming of...
I would like to think the Refugee Heritage proposal in relation to the Shimelba refugee camp: a constructed environment that calls into question the relationship between history and heritage from the...
View ArticleRefugee Heritage conversations: Sari Hanafi, “Anti-Humanitarianism”
Humanitarian organizations deprive refugees of their political existence by treating them as bodies to be fed and sheltered. Humanitarian law refers to “protected people,” but current humanitarian...
View ArticleThe discussion on “Refugee Heritage” continues in Kassel (Live stream available)
Forum The Parliament of Bodies: A Century of Camps: Refugee Knowledge and Forms of Sovereignty Beyond the Nation-State August 12 (6:30–10 pm) and August 13 (12–3 pm) Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18,...
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DAAR Fall 2017
Sandi Hilal awarded “The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture” for the project of the “Living Room”. When hospitality is exclusive to the state and the public domain, then stateless people have no room for...
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Decolonizing North
The north is not only a geographical expression, it indicates often a power relation based on presumption of superiority. Despite violent border regimes and colonial processes on indigenous...
View ArticleTHE KEITH HARING LECTURE IN ART AND ACTIVISM GIVEN BY SANDI HILAL
November 30, 2017 from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm CCS Bard, Classroom 102 Al-Madafeh: The Hospitality Room A Lecture given by Sandi Hilal, the 2016-17 Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism Located between...
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PERMANENT TEMPORARINESS IN ABU DHABI
PERMANENT TEMPORARINESS Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti Curated by Salwa Mikdadi and Bana Kattan February 24 – June 9th, 2018 New York University Abu Dhabi Art Gallery Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates...
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Permanent Temporariness in Abu Dhabi
Photos by Antoine Derksen Refugee Heritage A series of photo light-boxes, shown for the first time at New York University Abu Dhabi, make up part of the dossier nomination of Dheisheh Refugee Camp...
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Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Course: displacement, migration and...
The struggle of decolonization, once primarily located outside of Europe, has today moved within its borders and peripheries. What the media calls the “refugee crisis” is, in reality, the incapacity of...
View ArticleAl Madhafah/The Living Room at LUMA (round table discussion) and ArkDes...
Hospitality: Searching for Common Ground (14.–19.05.2018) Hospitality, involves committing oneself to rigorous ethical behaviour. It’s a real commitment, a responsibility. From the host to the hostage,...
View ArticleRefugee Heritage conversations: Ismae’l Sheikh Hassan, “Illusions and Wizardry”
It would not be surprising if most official and state actors would be very uncomfortable with nominating Palestinian refugee camps as world heritage site. Official Palestinian discourse insists on the...
View ArticleINAUGURATION OF AL-MADHAFAH THE LIVING ROOM PROJECT IN THE YELLOW HOUSE IN...
September 1st, 2018 Located between the domestic and the public sphere, Al-Madhafah, in Arabic, is the living room dedicated to hospitality. It has the potential to subvert the role of guest and host...
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Exhibition at the Vanabbemuseum – December 1 – April 28, 2018
Refugee Heritage, Photo Luca Capuano POSITIONS #4, four artists in dialogue Gluklya, Naeem Mohaiemen and Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti 01/12/2018 – 28/04/2019 Curators: Charles Esche, Diana...
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BOOK LAUNCH PERMANENT TEMPORARINESS
Permanent Temporariness is a book, a catalogue, and an archive that accounts for fifteen years of research, experimentation, and creation that are marked by an inner tension and a visionary drive that...
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SEPARATION | in conversation with Charles Esche
Extract from the book Permanent Temporariness Alessandro Petti This book is the first time we have really acknowledged the part of our practice that materializes itself as an installation or in an...
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