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The Syllabus Reading Group is organised in Kunsthal Gent in the context of the work‘Syllabus’ by Irish artist Jesse Jones: a monumental curtain with the arm of Silvia Federici, that creates space for (engaged) gatherings. Since its start during covid, we’ve read texts by Silvia Federici and other (feminist) authors. Each edition, there is a new host who presents a specific book or text.

Since 2023, we have organised the Syllabus Reading Residency: an invitation to artists and writers to prepare and host a Syllabus Reading Group, while residing in Kunsthal Gent’s in-house apartment at for a week.

In 2024 we invited Sulaiman Saleh, Saja Amro, Wassila Abboud, Midnight Marsh, Jasmine Reimer.

Saja Amro

Saja Amro is an architect, educator, and designer based between The Netherlands and Palestine. Her work investigates the influence of spatial design on social dynamics in education. In her practice, she disrupts traditional classroom structures, aiming to rebuild them on the principles of radical pedagogy. As a tutor at the Architecture Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Saja uses the classroom as a place to collaborate with her students and reimagine spaces inspired by popular education methodologies, and roots of Indigenous cultures.

Sulaiman Saleh

Sulaiman Saleh is a communicator and researcher with a focus on international and intercultural communication. He was a lecturer at Jonkoping University (Sweden), teaching students in Media and Communication, and Global studies. Born in Gaza, studied in Malaysia, worked in Sweden, and currently based in Belgium, he is an active member of Cinema Maximiliaan and works as a coordinator for Disarming Design.

Wassila Abboud

Wassila Abboud is a writer and researcher living between Amsterdam, Beirut and Sydney. With a background in journalism, her work is grounded in collaborative research and is interested in the politics of bodies, and impossibilities in language and memory within past and present. She looks at language and the meaning of words within different social contexts between Beirut, Amsterdam and Sydney and aims to reconstruct the meaning of words in relation to their context.

Midnight Marsh

MalaikaCunningham is a practice-based researcher and performance maker. She makes magic realist interactive artworks which explore the possibilities of performance, storytelling, food, and installation in creating
democratic spaces. She has a PhD in participatory performance and democratic theory and recently completed a 3 year residency with Artsadmin.

Zoë Laureen Palmer is a multidisciplinary artist and human ecologist who creates playful, spaces for multispecies encounters, rest and collective care. Her work in opera has toured across the UK and internationally.

Jennie Moran is a Dublin-based visual artist who uses the philosophy, culture, and infrastructure of hospitality to create opportunities for shared connection. She also runs a nomadic hospitality response unit called
Luncheonette.

Keir Vine is a composer and sound artist who works across a variety of mediums using improvisation, sonic healing and immersive story-telling. He has performed for over a decade with the group Portico Quartet
touring worldwide in concert halls and clubs alike.

Jasmine Reimer

Jasmine Reimer is a Canadian artist, writer, researcher and art educator based in Berlin. Reimer explores the ever-changing hybrid-monster body and its role in maintaining the complexity of our identities. Working in sculpture, drawing, non-fiction and poetry, her work uses symbolism, myth and abstraction to investigate physical and non-physical states of transformation.

Reimer exhibits internationally with her most recent exhibition at the plumb in Toronto and Khota Kunsthalle in Helsinki. In addition, Reimer writes art criticism, which can be found in ArtReview, Border Crossings, Peripheral Review and Mousse. Currently, Reimer teaches at Berlin Art Institute, with past classes held at The University of Guelph, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Sheridan College and The University of Toronto. She is currently working on a series of Leporello books.