Thursday, 21 November 2024, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM,
Atelier KANAL, BrusselsA workshop with Marwa Arsanios and Tizintizwa Collective (Soumeya Ait Ahmed and Nadir Bouhmouch) about archiving and organising, inspired by the commons in West Asia and North Africa
Please join us for a workshop on archiving and organising, inspired by the commons in West Asia and North Africa. After a brief introduction, participants divide into two groups, focusing on different practices. Soumeya Ait Ahmed and Nadir Bouhmouch will run a workshop on adopting the ancestral concepts of the Agadir (a collective granary) and Agraw (a consensus-based village assembly) into contemporary archiving practices, using their AWAL research on oral archives as a case study. In parallel, Marwa Arsanios will guide a reflection on how the Mashaa (a communal system of land tenure that transcends ownership and still exists in West Asia) can be applied to art organisations of different scales. We will conclude with a group session where participants can share their insights and ideas.
The workshop takes place at Atelier KANAL, Square Sainctelette 12, 1000 Brussels. Tea will be served from 16:30 and the workshop starts at 17:00. The workshops are free and in English. The workshop by Tizintizwa Collective is targeted at people of North-African and West Asian cultures or origin who are interested in archive policies. The workshop by Marwa Arsanios is intended for organisers working in the field of culture. Please fill this form (https://forms.office.com/e/mD3Rra56GM) to register. The cycle about Commons in West Asia and North Africa includes an event and a workshop.
This workshop is co-produced by de Appel en KANAL-Centre Pompidou.
BIOGRAPHIES
Tizintizwa ("mountain pass of the bees") is a polydisciplinary art and research collective that provides pretexts for collective creation and cross-pollination. Their practice is based on working together and with others, finding consonance in difference and championing heterogeneity in nature and culture. Their work often involves collaborating with agricultural communities, documenting oral literature and ancestral traditions, observing ecological transformations, facilitating cross-regional dialogue and highlighting the importance of transgenerational transmission and the relationship between land and people. In 2019, Tizintizwa initiated AWAL, a collaborative oral heritage archive project which includes a rural residency and a public programme dedicated to documenting, unpacking and curating "oraliture" in Morocco and beyond.
BIOGRAPHIES
Tizintizwa ("mountain pass of the bees") is a polydisciplinary art and research collective that provides pretexts for collective creation and cross-pollination. Their practice is based on working together and with others, finding consonance in difference and championing heterogeneity in nature and culture. Their work often involves collaborating with agricultural communities, documenting oral literature and ancestral traditions, observing ecological transformations, facilitating cross-regional dialogue and highlighting the importance of transgenerational transmission and the relationship between land and people. In 2019, Tizintizwa initiated AWAL, a collaborative oral heritage archive project which includes a rural residency and a public programme dedicated to documenting, unpacking and curating "oraliture" in Morocco and beyond.
Marwa Arsanios addresses structural questions using different devices, forms and strategies. From investigating the conflict-driven transformation of architecture to exploring artist-run spaces and temporary conventions between feminist communes and cooperatives, her practice aims to make space within − and without − existing art structures to experiment with different kinds of politics. She frequently uses the medium (and space) of film to connect struggles as if they were images. In recent years, Arsanios has adopted a new materialist perspective on these issues, focusing on feminist movements and historic land struggles. In this approach, she explores questions of property, law, economy and ecology while looking at specific plots of lands and the people who work on them. Her multidisciplinary research and collaborative methods have been deployed in numerous projects.
