Building Belief: The Grand Egyptian Museum and the Architecture of State Power
Through scale, light and choreographed movement, the museum transforms heritage into authority, curating memory and making the state’s version of ...
Tag: Art
Video: Steps
Artwork and video on Gaza's genocide by Noura Alsouma: "Eyes sealed shut by fear, and eyes too terrified to open".
Palestine on Berlin’s Walls: Street Art, Censorship, and the Politics of Solidarity in Germany
From erased graffiti to banned symbols, Germany’s crackdown on Palestinian street art exposes how aesthetics become acts of resistance, memory, ...
The Depth of the Gaze: A Conversation with Habiba Djahnine on Algerian Feminist Cinema
The Algerian feminist’s cinematography creates a space for exploring trauma and memory in Algerian society through workshops led together with ...
Accidents, Archives, and Acts of Sabotage: A Conversation with Palestinian Film Director Kamal Aljafari
In a colonial context, reworking images is an act of liberation and reclaiming, a way to tell stories of a ...
Allies in Blockade: How Serbia’s Students Sparked a Movement of Protest and Care
A performance of public love, radical democracy, and refusal to obey in advance united artists, farmers, doctors, and drag queens ...
When War Ends, What Remains? Art, Memory, and the Weight of Loss
How does one go on when their world has been erased? Through art, survivors navigate the weight of absence, transforming ...
Reclaiming the future of technology through art, imagining, and lived experiences
Artists allapopp and Dinara Rasuleva discuss decolonizing technology and imagining futures rooted in migrant cultures.
That was tomorrow. A conversation about Arab imaginaries in Berlin
Syrian writer Rasha Abbas and Palestinian artist Muhammad Jabali, in conversation with Diana Abbani, discuss the evolving dynamics and narratives ...
A long, unwieldy history of Palestine refracted in cinema at Berlin’s Arab Film Festival
Palestinian lives and cause are spotlighted at Berlin's AlFilm Festival amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza and unprecedented censorship in ...
The Arab Film Festival in Berlin: Palestine at the heart of the program
This 15th edition of the festival comes amid criticism aimed at German authorities and the Berlin Senate for silencing pro-Palestinian ...
Pilgrim notes: renewal
Intimate encounters with a few plants and people along a pilgrimage route. What visions of an alternative future appear through ...
A Beirut forager’s odyssey
The plants disclose their knowledge and complex histories of colonialism and migration, shifting the author's perception of the city.
The body keeps the score
What changes when we walk in different cultural and political contexts? Which (un)privilege do certain bodies have to walk and ...
Memory landscape
Walking through an other, how could we access imaginary and real landscapes of memory, grief and desire? The writer follows ...
My body is a pine tree
A very delicate and intimate ritual, where the author sheds off his multiple bodies, mourns his multiple deaths and welcomes ...
Keys for ancient grief
A walk along paths interwoven between inner landscapes of grief and the outer natural landscapes of transformation, in the village ...
Walking with grief: an introduction
Much remains untold when it comes to grief, and much feels unheard as we walk and connect to everything by ...
SAOT Festival, beyond and in between
A space for music and discussion, SAOT Festival in Berlin is the sound and voice of Palestinians and people from ...
