I Norge har palestinske kunstnere vært spesielt oppmerksomme på disse spørsmålene – og reflektert over hvordan våre kunstneriske og kulturelle uttrykk ofte ikke klarer å formidle den gazanske opplevelsen av folkemord. Panelet vi har invitert består utelukkende av kunstnere som har omdirigert sin praksis og sine ressurser for å stå sammen med kolleger og venner i Gaza. Målet deres er klart: å sikre at gazanske kunstnere bryter gjennom beleiringen og massedrapene, og snakker med sine egne stemmer til tross for pågående forsøk på å bringe dem til taushet.
Denne samtalen spør: Hva betyr det å samarbeide med kunstnere i Gaza i dag? Hva betyr det å lage kunst under et folkemord? Og hvordan tvinger utryddelsen av palestinere oss til å revurdere våre kunstneriske verktøy, språk og praksis?
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An art historian and curator based in Oslo. He is Senior Curator at Public Art Norway – KORO, where his work includes major public art projects at the Government Quarter and Museum of the Viking Age. He is also engaged in discursive initiatives such as investigations of public art in the context of Truth and Reconciliation in Norway and Sápmi, and the Oslo-based Artist to Artist residency program facilitating dialogue with Gazan artists. Snyder holds a PhD in art history, theory, and criticism from the University of California, San Diego.
A Palestinian visual artist whose practice spans video, sound, writing, sculpture, and installation. With a background in journalism and social anthropology, and an MFA from KHIO (Oslo), Carmel’s work explores absence and disappearance, confronting colonial and patriarchal erasures of people, spaces, and identities.
A research art collective founded in Gaza in 2021 by artists and researchers Khaled Jarada, Rahaf Batniji, Salman Nawati, Majdal Nateel, Carmel Al-Abbasi, Mahmoud Abu Wardeh, and Mahmoud Al-Shaer. Originating with the project Geography of Divine Magic at Beit Al-Ghussein Cultural and Heritage House, the collective examines Palestinians’ temporal and spatial realities under siege. Dahaleez develops collaborative and analytical tools to envision liberation and reconstruction of Palestine.
A filmmaker, photographer, and mixed-media artist. His short film The Passport has screened at the National Museum of Cinema (Turin), Cologne International VideoArt Festival, and elsewhere. His work includes Oslo Syndrome (Autumn Exhibition, Oslo; Dubai International Film Festival; London Palestinian Film Festival), the collaborative installation WALL-1, and the documentary Into My Lungs (Kunstnernes Hus, 2022). His mixed-media installation The Lost Tapes of a People’s Tribunal 1982 was exhibited at Fotogalleriet (2023/24). In 2023, he launched the Artist to Artist Project, a digital residency supporting Gazan artists, culminating in the exhibition For You at Tenthaus and Podium. He has also exhibited at Nitja Center for Contemporary Art and Rogaland Kunstsenter.
