Essays
the disturbances that these works are tackling are not pervading in a grandiose manner of overwhelming catastrophes that are daily broadcasted over popular media. Instead, they appear as quiet signifiers of larger issues whose complexity remains opaque. In a way, they feel similar to glitch, as a temporary broken image in which precisely this rupture holds the troublesome message. This way, the expected pattern is broken, and the artist interferes with the existing paradigm in order to challenge its meaning fragmentally.
READTraces of Landscape Disturbances
How can landscape disturbances, both overt and subtle, be addressed effectively in art practices? The essay explores works by Slovenian and Croatian artists, examining their engagement with the environment on a micropolitical level and challenging imposed divisions.
As the voices calling for Palestinian freedom intensify by the day, it benefits this critical moment to examine possible exercises in re-thinking settler-colonial and postcolonial violence while imagining alternative futures. The Palestinian struggle for a liberated future necessitates borrowing from other cultures and traditions while carving out spaces for emboldening and empowering intersectionality. With that in mind, what potentialities of hope and resistance can be encapsulated under alternative imaginings of the (Palestinian) future?
READA Space for Palestine: Between Science & Critical Climate Fiction
How does adopting the critical lens of indigenous climate fiction open more generous future possibilities for the colonized- especially Palestinians, who continue to suffer from the expansive and fatal repercussions of Israeli settler-colonialism?
