Session 28
Imagining a Future: Contemporary Images and Words of Palestine
On November 25, 2021 at 6 pm
Premiere on Facebook*
“The spring 2021 events in Palestine have highlighted, yet again, the importance of images and words as tools to shape the narrative, and to forward Palestinian voices.
How does the medium play a role in shaping a narrative and the circulation of time-based media? How are artists disrupting habits of seeing in times of conflict, which for long, have been dictated by mainstream media and aesthetics of journalism? How can we think of the latter in relation to the document, the documentation, the non-fiction and the documentary? How does one assist the emergence of this vocabulary of Palestine that moves beyond testimony into radical imagination and liberation?”
For Session 28, writer, Karim Kattan, and artists, Mona Benyamin and Razan AlSalah, tackle these questions with artist and filmmaker Ali El-Darsa. Initiated in conjunction with the in-gallery video program Moving Narratives: Images de Palestine, AlSalah, Benyamin and Kattan discuss their strategies to shift present and future narratives vis-a-vis the ongoing violence in Palestine.
Exhibition
Moving narratives: Images de Palestine
From November 11, 2021 to January 15, 2022
Dazibao thanks the artists for their generous collaboration as well as its advisory programming committee for its support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
Dazibao acknowledges that we are located on unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtià: ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples.