HEKLER MEDIUM PROGRAMS

October 19, 2019 - A People’s Tribunal: 28 Exhibits, a performative tribunal that brings together a group of artists, activists, and scholars to account for the impact of global counterinsurgency doctrine. With storytelling, installation, and song as "evidence," the tribunal interrogates the rhetoric that has fueled the lasting trauma of the U.S. War in Iraq, while building a collective archive that fosters alternative spaces of restitution for evaluating the war on terror. Performers: Amina Ahmed, Dena Al-Adeeb, Fadaa Ali, Yaroub Al-Obaidi, Nada El-Kouny, Hatif Farhan, Kazem Ghouchani, Maryam Jahanbin, Luma Jasim, Mohammed Okab, Hussein Smko; Organizers: Dena Al-Adeeb, Shimrit Lee, Nataša Prljević, Farideh Sakhaeifar. Hosted by Twelve gates Arts, Philadelphia.

September 13, 2019 - Clear-Hold-Build-Archive, an artist talk moderated by curator Shimrit Lee with exhibiting artists Bisan Abu-Eisheh, Samia Henni, alongside Nora Elmarzouky, Manager of Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary Project at Swarthmore College. The panel will focus on the use of archives as an artistic medium with which to address the legacies of counterinsurgency. Hosted by Twelve gates Arts, Philadelphia.

September 6 - October 23, 2019 - Clear-Hold-Build, a group exhibition that examines a lasting trauma of global counterinsurgency. Co-curated and organized by Shimrit Lee, Joshua Nierodzinski, and Nataša Prljević. Participating artists: Bisan Abu-Eisheh, Dena Al-Adeeb, Shabir Ahmed Baloch, Samia Henni, Khaled Jarrar, Vladimir Miladinović, The Propeller Group, Farideh Sakhaeifar, Hồng-Ân Trương. Hosted by Twelve gates Arts, Philadelphia.

November 30, 2018 - ANNEXB’S FORUM AGAINST NOSTALGIA - Art and Culture in Contexts of Authoritarianism (ACCA) - Raphaela Melsohn, Yudi Rafael, Tatiane Santa Rosa, and Felipe Steinberg, present cases relevant to current and past contexts of authoritarianism in Brazil, in relation to Latin America, and the US. With a guest performance by Cyriaco Lopes.

WRITING Amir Husak “Exercising Radical Democracy: The Crisis of Representation and Interactive Documentary as an Agent of Change.” Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 15, Summer 2018, pp. 16–32.

WRITING War, Memory, Protest - Thoughts by Sahar Sepahdari

October 13, 2018 - War, Memory, Protest, a roundtable conversation organized in collaboration with Farideh Sakhaeifar and Sadra Shabab focused on exhibited artworks that examine the relationships between the economy of war and the visual culture. Participating artists and moderators: Bisan Abu Eisheh, Saba Alizadeh, Sahar Sepahdari, Mandana Mansouri, Zahra Ali, and Manijeh Nasrabadi. Hosted by at De-Construkt [projekts] in Red Hook (41 Seabring St).