23 November 2024
Research Convening 2024
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The recipients of the Alserkal Arts Foundation Research Grants 2022-2024 Natasha Maru, Rhea Shah, Maitha AlSuwaidi, Khalda El Jack, Zainab Gaafar, and Lubnah Ansari presented multidisciplinary projects that address permanence and belonging. Using experimental cartography, immersive installations, and independent zines, they urge us to reimagine how we relate to our lives and land(scapes) when faced with ecocide and disruptive political violence.
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In This land (is ours, yours, whose?) (هذه الارض (لنا, لكم, لمنو؟ architects and urban researchers Khalda El Jack and Zainab Gaafar document stories of three settlements of south Khartoum to examine how the harsh realities of war unmake and reconfigure our relationships with land.
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Artist and researcher Lubnah Ansari’s Tracing Temple Ties studies burgeoning dynamics between India and the UAE, where fissures born out of colonial legacies mutate other relational worlds.
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Through Can we be(come) nomadic?, social scientist Natasha Maru and environmental designer Rhea Shah explore multi-species environments through the lens of mobile pastoralists in Western India, proposing ways to re-inhabit an embodied ground in the fight for environmental justice.
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With The Domesticity of Wanderers, artist and writer Maitha AlSuwaidi sifts through stories of Ajami identity and collective memory across the Arab and Persian Gulf(s), while looking at the inner world of the home as a totem and a tool.