Asychronicity and the New Sensibility: Realism in the Palestinian Revolution (1967-1982)
Wednesday 28 June 2023 | Barzakh Bookshop & Café | 6pm
In this talk, Natasha Gasparian will review the postcolonial and decolonial reception of avant-garde historiography to reconsider the definitions operative in the rejection of the category. Positing the asynchronicity of avant-gardes as a constitutive, but historically overdetermined, feature of capitalist modernity, she aims to recover the political valence of the term and argue for its continued relevance for emancipatory struggles worldwide, notably here the ongoing struggle for the liberation of Palestine, which previously comprised a distinct movement known as the Palestinian Revolution (1967-1982).
Natasha Gasparian is an art historian and curator who works primarily on modern and contemporary art in the Arabic-speaking world. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and St John’s College, she is pursuing a DPhil in Contemporary Art History and Theory at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Her criticism has appeared in Artforum, Camera Austria, and Texte Zur Kunst. She is the author of Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El-Rayess: The Changing of Horses (2020). Recent curatorial projects include “Je suis inculte !” an exhibition of the Sursock Museum’s permanent collection, co-curated with Ziad Kiblawi. Natasha is a member of the Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR) and she is currently a doctoral research fellow at the Orient-Institut in Beirut.
This screening is organized by the Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR) in collaboration with the Orient-Institut Beirut for the 2023 Summer School, Is There a Revolutionary Subject? For more information, please visit https://bicarlebanon.org/summerschool/.
The discussion will take place in English.
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