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Women on Aeroplanes—agency for flying ideas is an artistic research project, based on a framework and network that is necessarily constantly evolving and changing. it aims to gain a broader understanding of what independence and interdependence means. Looking closely at the long history of transatlantic networks and the struggles for liberation, predating the process of independence on the African continent (and elsewhere), the project explores how women were always central to such networks and struggles, in which they played multiple roles. Their stories are however hardly told and their faces remain widely invisible. We aim to not only frame their various and heterogeneous contributions, politically and artistically, but also create new parameters and premises of narratives. To recall the notion of independence today necessarily means to address the gap between formal independence and a process of decolonisation that was simultaneously national and intranational, transnational and international and which remains, in many ways, incomplete. The project's title is borrowed loosely from Kojo Laing's critically acclaimed second novel Woman of the Aeroplanes, written in 1988. With its deconstructive syntax and implosion of genres, the novel sets the tone for a historical narrative, in which subordinate subject-object relations are negated. Laing’s method of speculative fiction writing can be seen as a making-of-theory using other means. As a reference point, it opens a pathway to a new grammar that makes re-visiting and re-writing history possible.
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أثناء النقل / en passage / on the hill / على التل
notes on extended neighbourhoods, imaginary constellations and relations, cultures of agriculture and the making of recipes
For a free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women --- on Another Screen, compiled by Daniella Shreir
The thought comes after the work, the plan comes while going
Sahar Qawasmi, cofounder of Sakiya – Art | Science | Agriculture
structures and infrastructures, concrete and symbolic: water suplies, stonewalls, maintainance .... pedagogies of the commons and bewildering
Michael Taussig: Two Weeks in Palestine
Hashem Abushama: a map without guarantees: Stuart Hall and Palestinian geographies