Lara Khaldi, Noor Abed / LOCALES
School of Intrusions
workshop
September 14 | 12:00–5:00 pm
La Pelanda – Studio 1
The workshop is aimed at everyone and will be in English. A familiarity with the language is therefore helpful.
On September 14, Short Theatre – in collaboration with If Body, the public program curated by LOCALES – hosts a workshop led by School of Intrusions, an experimental pedagogical platform born in Palestine under the helm of artist Noor Abed and curator Lara Khaldi.
The school aims to develop temporary collaborative spaces through moments of collective learning, opening itself to experience-based pedagogical methodologies that focus on situated knowledge, anti-colonial practices, and alternative economic models. On September 14, the workshop will take as its starting point the forms of solidarity between the Italian and Palestinian artistic and cultural contexts, particularly through the use of video, focusing on the projection of archive films – some of which are from the Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico (AAMOD) in Rome – which will be screened and analysed together with the artists to activate a dialogue on the forms of resistance that the audiovisual medium has conveyed between Palestine and Italy.
School of Intrusions encroaches actively upon public and private space with the belief that place, time, knowledge, and tradition are resources that belong to everybody.
Lara Khaldi, Noor Abed will also be present at Short Theatre 2024 with the talk School of Intrusions.
The workshop is free of charge and will be in English. To participate, you must register by sending an e-mail to localesproject@gmail.com. Applications will be considered until 4 September depending on availability.
Noor Abed (Palestine, 1988) works at the intersection of performance and film. Her works create situations where social possibilities are both rehearsed and performed. Abed attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in Νew York (2015-16), and the Home Workspace Program (HWP) at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut 2016-17. In 2020, she co-founded the School of Intrusions with Lara Khaldi, an independent educational collective in Ramallah, Palestine. Abed was an assistant curator for documenta 15, Kassel (2021-22). She is currently an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2022-24) and was recently awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation/Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Grant (2022).
Lara Khaldi (Palestine, 1982) is an independent curator and critic from Jerusalem, Palestine, living temporarily in Amsterdam. She was part of the curatorial team of documenta 15. Until recently she was the head of the Media Studies Programme at Alquds Bard College, Jerusalem and a tutor in the Disarming Design MA program, at Sandberg Institute, 2020-2022. In January 2023, Khaldi was appointed Director of de Appel in Amsterdam. Khaldi has curated numerous projects and symposia in Palestine and abroad and has contributed to several publications including: Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine (Mousse Publishing, 2019), Of(f) Our Times: Curatorial Anachronics (Sternberg Press, 2019), In aching agony and longing I wait for you at the Spring of Thieves: Jumana Emil Abboud (Black Dog Press, 2018).
LOCALES is a curatorial platform that aims to inspire a reflection on the public sphere through artistic practices. Through a series of site-specific programs involving commissions of new artworks, explorations of public spaces, educational activities, and performances, LOCALES addresses the complexity of contemporary urgencies starting from the political and social history of symbolic places in the city and their local communities. The current LOCALES team consists of Sara Alberani, Marta Federici, Chiara Siravo (Curators), Chiara Pagano (Curator of Narratives), Giulia Caruso (Project manager), Alice Albanese Ginammi (intern).
conceived by If Body 24 – Living Fragments
public programme curated by LOCALES
co-realised with Short Theatre 2024
