Actual Size
22 May 2013, Posted in Current, Featured, Projects, 0 Comments
Architectural and engineering plans articulate the form and function of intended constructions — the flow of substances, entry and exit points, joints, connections and foundations — and reveal the dispersion of power that sustains these structures. – Kandis Friesen
Continue Reading...A Game of Shater Hassan
24 Apr 2013, Posted in Current, Featured, Projects, 0 Comments
A Game of Shater Hassan is a nonlinear, semi-autobiographical project that explores notions of memory, oral history and the diaspora. The project is described as a retelling the story of Shater Hassan when in fact it actively denies you most of the story itself, and takes you somewhere else instead. — Haitham Ennasr
Continue Reading...Lady Gaza
23 Apr 2013, Posted in Articles, Current, Featured, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
She may have traded her microphone for a megaphone, but you would be hard-pressed not to recognize that signature hairpiece above the crowd. Lady Gaza has recently emerged as her latest reinvention, this time from international superstar to – if you can believe it – Palestine activist.
Continue Reading...Basil AlZeri – The Archivist in the Kitchen
18 Apr 2013, Posted in Articles, Current, Feature, Featured, 0 Comments
Cooking became an entry-point for me to introduce myself, as a human being who is also a Palestinian, to my peers in Canada. Cuisine became a way for me to express myself, my history, my cultural identity, with a lot of specificity but without being over-determined by certain politics. — Basil AlZeri
Continue Reading...Inside Decolonizing Architecture: The Politics of Visibility in Common Assembly
18 Apr 2013, Posted in Articles, Current, Feature, Featured, 0 Comments
The Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR) is part of a long-term project that deals with the spatial complexities of decolonization through an interrogation of the relationships between law, spatial production and colonial practices in Palestine and Israel. — Nishat Awan and Cressida Kocienski
Continue Reading...Eyal Weizman’s The Least of All Possible Evils
17 Apr 2013, Posted in Current, Reviews, 0 Comments
Beginning with an agile reading of the sequence of disasters that constitute the narrative of Voltaire’s Candide (1759), the Israeli architect Eyal Weizman has, in his latest monograph, The Least of All Possible Evils (LPE), initiated another productive foray into our optimized “humanitarian present.” — Etienne Turpin
Continue Reading...Sector Zero – On the Brink of Beirut
17 Apr 2013, Posted in Current, Reviews, 0 Comments
When I slip Nadim Mishlawi’s Sector Zero DVD from its sleeve, my heart is already in my throat. I am expecting to be hurt by these pictures from Lebanon, and the cruel accident of this country’s geography, but from the very opening images I am assured that beauty will be a regular accompaniment. — Mike Hoolboom
Continue Reading...Relationships Across Cornfields And Olive Groves
17 Apr 2013, Posted in Articles, Current, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
In this interconnected world, struggling against settler colonialism anywhere is struggling against it everywhere. Any settler living on Turtle Island owes their ability to do so to ongoing genocide and colonialism here. — Zainab Amadahy
Continue Reading...Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
17 Apr 2013, Posted in Articles, Current, Short FUSE, 0 Comments
The BDS campaign calls upon global civil society to boycott Israeli and international products and companies profiting from the violation of Palestinian rights, including Israeli sporting, cultural and academic institutions; divest from corporations complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights and ensure that university investment portfolios and pension funds are not used to finance these companies; and impose sanctions to demonstrate disapproval and educate society about violations of international law and to end the complicity of other nations in these violations. — Rwayda (Rod) Al-Kamisi
Continue Reading...Game Over – Reframing Combat in Diaspora Space
17 Apr 2013, Posted in Current, Reviews, 0 Comments
In shifting the position of the viewer from a passive recipient of such representations to the active roles of gamer and witness, Blown Up creates new spaces through which to build diasporic disidentifications and migrant self-representations that reframe militaristic violence within mediated space. — Marty Fink
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