Activities and events
29 January 2021
Cairography: Emergency Edition
Supported by Moussem Nomadic Arts Center and launched during NYU-hosted PRICKS conference, this publication of HaRaKa and Sarma is a propeller initiating the residency at Kunsthal Gent. Ten years into Post-revolutionary Egypt and the Arab region, and within an unfolding deadly pandemic, this issue came as a response to a year of losses, bodily, as well as economic and social.
16 + 17 February 2021, 19.00 — 20.00
Online workshop: ‘Art theory across language barriers’
We assume that English is the working language for contemporary performance, and contemporary art at large. Yet this assumption is tested daily, whenever Anglo-Saxon rooted discourses are mobilized across languages for translation purposes. How do we write about bodies, performance, choreography, agency and contemporaneity in Arabic, for instance? And do academic or other arguments remain intact if it’s impossible to translate their crucial terminologies? This workshop is led by Lamia Gouda, HaRaKa Platform’s core member, researcher, performance artist and professional translator. Her practice challenges the very notion of contemporary dance and performance art, by invoking non-western canons, terms and practices. Would you like to participate? Send us a short paragraph describing your interest in the proposal.
Monday 7 + 21 June, 17:00 — 19:00
LANGUAGE CAFE — ‘The language of oppression and resistance’
online @Kunsthal Gent — more information
An initiative of Cairography Collective in residence at Kunsthal Gent, in collaboration with Disarming Design Sandberg Institute. Curators: Siwar Kraitem and Rasha Dakkak
Language Café is a recurring zoom-meeting that revolves around language, design, translation and politics. The conversations that take place there are infused with contemporary perspectives from the Arabic-speaking regions and the diaspora. Issues around translation, the canon and hegemonies, migration and politics will be explored.
Wednesday 9 June, 17:00 — 20:00
TOUCHING PUBLICATION — Independent publishing in art and its tangible agendas
Alternative conference organized by CAIROGRAPHY COLLECTIVE with SARMA/ORAL SITE & HARAKA
online @Kunsthal Gent - more information
TOUCHING PUBLICATION is the closing event of Cairography Collective at Kunsthal Gent,addressing independent and grass-root publishing and its agenda’s as a political gesture. The collective embraces the online platform as an interactive mode of diasporic gathering across the divides between West and Arab regions.
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