In her series “Who is Afraid of Ideology?” the artist and filmmaker Marwa Arsanios takes an intersectional view of women’s anti-colonial struggles for comprehensive social and political change. The core of these struggles is the reappropriation of life’s basics, of land rights in the face of the machinations of capitalist exploitation – they are about connecting directly with nature again. In the video installation “A Letter Inside a Letter” (Work in Progress), Marwa Arsanios examines the issues of inheritance, ownership, property and value. To do so she focusses attention on a specific area of land in northern Lebanon: her family’s olive grove that is now farmed by a family of Syrian refugees. Can inheritance be conceived from the perspective of the disinherited and displaced workers who care for and maintain the land?
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Duration: approx. 30 Min.
Language: English
27.8., 8.15 p.m. Artist Talk with Marwa Arsanios and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, moderated by Reem Shadid
Mousonturm-co-production
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A coproduction by AFAC, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt LAB and Goethe-Institut in the frame of “This is Not Lebanon. Festival for Visual Arts, Performance, Music and Talks”, developed during a residency within the framework of "Frankfurt Moves!", a cooperation of the KfW Stiftung and the Frankfurt LAB to promote international emerging artists in the field of dance and performing arts.
“This Is Not Lebanon. Festival for Visual Arts, Performance, Music and Talks” is a cooperation project of the Frankfurt LAB with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Ensemble Modern in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Lebanon, supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Ensemble Modern Patronatsgesellschaft e.V. The discourse programme is supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb).
