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https://mayamnesia.diaart.org/ 

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May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2020– ) examines how individuals bear witness to experiences of violence, loss, displacement, and forced migration through performance. Since the early 2010s, Abbas and Abou-Rahme have collected online recordings of everyday people singing and dancing in communal spaces in Iraq, Palestine, and Syria. This work brings these recordings together with new performances conceived by the artists, a dancer, and a group of musicians in the cultural underground in Ramallah, Palestine. According to Abbas and Abou-Rahme, through the circulation of this footage, “these fractured communities are resisting their own erasure and laying claim to space, self, and collectivity once more.”

This evolving project, co-commissioned by Dia Art Foundation and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, will be presented as both an online project and physical exhibition. The online platform will launch as part of Dia’s Artist Web Projects series. A subsequent exhibition will be presented at MoMA’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio.

Postscript: after everything is extracted

On December 10, the online project opens with a reflection on the act of mourning titled Postscript: after everything is extracted. Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the world, the artists gave focus to a piece of writing that they had begun before the lockdown, which speaks to a constant state of grief and pain experienced across virtual and physical spaces. This text will be layered with digital portraits and a new sound piece created by the artists in Palestine. The digital platform will expand in summer 2021 to include the extensive collection of found online recordings the artists have archived over the last decade alongside the original recordings.

May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth is co-commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Dia Art Foundation, New York.

May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth is made possible by support from the Khalid Shoman Foundation-Darat al Funun and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

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Lifta Society in Garland Texas

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untitled part 1: everything and nothing from Jayce Salloum on Vimeo.

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Snippet from a convo with Haneen Adi and Lina Meruane

Haneen: What was the impression of going there and meeting it(Palestine) in the physical vs. how it lives in your imagination?

Lina: My family arrived in Chile at the beginning of the 20th century so they assimilated and adapted and my father and my aunts never learned arabic. so I did not learn Arabic. My interest in Palestine started a little bit later in my life when I was already living in New York. I sort of almost by chance got to go to Palestine. What I expected to feel was a sort of emotional connection to the place, almost like a physical connection to the place. like something would come up in my mind, some sort of feeling when I saw the family still living there, i would feel some sort of warming up to the family and I didn't really feel that and I was surprised but at same time i think there is something sort of romanticized about the idea of return. For me, the interesting and important part was that I immediately connected politically to the situation of abuse. I think its because i also lived under dictatorship in Chile. I could recognize the signs of oppression, abuse fear and I immediately connected and became Palestinian through that experience. Through the experience of present day palestine connected to the historical occurrences in the place.

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Free Palestine.

Everyone

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LIFTA x CPS Present: ‘Palestine, IN-BETWEEN’, a semester-long program that explores contemporary Palestinian cultures and yearnings across generations in Palestine and its diaspora. Through media including live panels, original videos, podcasts, essays, film screenings, and social media campaigns, ‘Palestine, IN-BETWEEN,’ spotlights the untold and unfamiliar. It gives precedent to the under-celebrated; the agents of design who draft and re-draft blueprints for present-day liberation. ‘Palestine, IN-BETWEEN’ is an ode to the powers of self-freedom and agency that breathes life into all beings, unbound from restrictions imposed by states and systems. Its content helps to lay the foundation for desired futures by rejecting the projections of a homogenous Palestinian experience and deconstructing the often flattened Palestinian identity.

This program is presented by CPS + LIFTA with Lena Mansour and Cher Asad.

Click here to learn more about the participants, team and full program! Palestine IN-BETWEEN is co-sponsored by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Center for Archaeology.