HASAN ÖZGÜR TOP

WEAPONIZED FUTURES

My video Columns & Cracks was exhibited in this project

April 2-5, 2024
Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus

https://www.kunsthalaarhus.dk/en/Events/2024-SIMIYYA-Weaponized-Futures

About the event
During the first part of the event Mandus Ridefelt and Assem Hendawi will present and show a series of short video essays produced by artists and researchers in the framework of Simiyya. These Video Capsules cross through investigatory, documentary, mythological and conceptual registers – an emerging patchwork or iterative compilation with its gaze set on a synoptic view of the layers of authoritarian image management and life within its fold. The series of video capsules will be screened continuously at Kunsthal Aarhus between the 2nd and 5th of April.

In the second part of the event, Simiyya will be in conversation with artist Anna Engelhardt, curator Joud Al-Tamimi, and scientist Jovana Maksić. Drawing upon a workshop held at Kunsthal Aarhus on 2-5 April, we will discuss the role and development of independent arts organizations in strategizing asymmetric and internationalist solidarity. We will trace emerging relationships between worldbuilding aesthetics, arts-infrastructural developments, and towards ways of safeguarding and weaponizing cultural practices at times of surging repression and violence globally and particularly in Palestine.

Participants at the event:
Joud Al-Tamimi, Anna Engelhardt, Jovana Maksić, Simiyya (Assem Hendawi, Mandus Ridefelt, Mostafa Elbaroody).

SIMIYYA – Capsules of the Undead

SIMIYYA – Capsules of the Undead. Dispatch 1#
On show at Kunsthal Aarhus: 02.04.24 – 05.04.24.

Please visit Simiyya’s website to watch the video capsules, extended reflections and a new interview with Mikkel Bolt:
simiyya.xyz

Supported by Nordisk Fulturfond and Danish Arts Foundation