We are an informal group of writers, artists, curators and filmmakers who come together for specific projects to raise awareness and money for Palestinian humanitarian needs.
On the occasion of the 2024 Venice Biennale the collective Artists Against Apartheid is staging a simple yet meaningful gesture in solidarity with Palestine.
Two afternoons of readings will be held on April 18th and 19th, drawn from a selection of poetical texts; a “Gaza Reader,” as it were, as we endeavor to insist on a place for Palestine at a “global” art event at which Palestine conspicuously has no official presence.
The readings by artists, curators, writers, filmmakers and diverse others will take place both days between 4-6pm on ‘The Freedom Boat,’ a small vessel docked at Riva Sette Martiri (not far from the Giardini).
Artists Nicole Eisenman and Rosalind Nashashibi have created bespoke maritime flags for the Freedom Boat.
This gathering is organized by Artists Against Apartheid with the support of Bidoun, WAWOG, the Kamel Lazaar Foundation.
Thursday 23rd February
Anthology Film Archives ,
New York, NY
3 Films:
Here and Elsewhere, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin and Anne-Marie Mieville.
Measures of Distance, Mona Hatoum
Off Screen, Mohannad Yacoubi
It has been 45 years since Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, and Anne-Marie Miéville made Here and Elsewhere, a filmic essay that has exercised a talismanic power over generations of audiences and artists with its stark and knowing meditation on cinema’s own limitations in representing faraway realities, in this case, the ongoing Palestinian resistance. Screened alongside, Mona Hatoum’s elegiac and epistolary Measures of Distance (1988) and Mohanad Yaqoubi’s Off Frame (2016) represent two films from Palestinian filmmakers of different generations that, like Godard, Gorin, and Miéville’s canonical effort, offer up inspired explorations of word, image, and narrative. Proceeds from this screening will go toward Medical Aid for Palestinians.
You can buy tickets here:
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=02&year=2023#showing-55800
Discussion after the screening with Ed Halter
When Israel made it illegal to display the Palestinian flag in occupied Palestine, or its four colors red, black, green and white placed next to each other in any form, Palestinians started to carry watermelons. For this project we asked artists to riff off the symbol of the watermelon.
We raised money for Medical Aid for Palestinians through the sale of posters made by a compelling list of artists.
Artists involved:
Alvaro Barrington / Huma Bhabha / Lisa Brice / Adam Broomberg / Banu Cennetoglu / Shezad Dawood / Jeremy Deller / Peter Doig / Sam Durant / Hadi Fallahpisheh / Satoshi Kojima / Stanislava Kovalcikova / Florian Krewer / Adriana Lara / Mateo Lopez / Alastair Mackinven / Rosalind Nashashibi / Suha Traboulsi in collaboration with W. Raad / Michael Rakowitz / Alessandra Sanguinetti / Larissa Sansour / Dylan Solomon Kraus / Abbas Zahedi / Ali Yass
