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Ayreen Anastas

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What we wrote when Ayreen took part in Episode 11, 2024:

Ayreen Anastas, a body in search of gestures, words, phrases, sentences to disactivate and destitute the impositions, forms, including the form of biography this form of self, to bring about some forces which give potency to life to bodies with and around them. How to not separate one ‘self?’ from a common that helps shape life and gives it intensity and meaning. How to become unintelligible, incomprehensible, opaque to the fabricated machines of subjectivation and self-making. How to write in a language that only friends-to-come receive, a language that wrestles with language to keep the relations to all the palestines and to their forms of life alive.

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Artist Events

1. A group of Palestinians picnicking on the site of their former village. The photo is of a group primarily of men and young boys, with a woman sat to the side and an elderly man seated on a lawn chair behind them. They are in the shade of a new forest of young coniferous trees.
14 November 2026, 20:10

Toward a Sumudic Cinema

Michel Khleifi Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri

Michel will screen his landmark documentary of anti-colonial time and persistence, Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction, clips from some other films, and discuss them with Rene and Ayreen as examples of Sumudic Cinema.

 

 

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
A brightly lit landscape photo. In the foreground there’s a coniferous tree covered in pine cones. Beyond that there is a sparse landscape covered in shrubs and conifers. In the distance a city is visible, the city is made up of identical condominiums and tower blocks, with sky scrapers at the skyline jutting into a grey-blue sky.
12 November 2026, 10:30

A Conference of Butterflies

Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine Nasser Abourahme Carmel Alabassi Ayreen Anastas Mahmoud Alshaer Rene Gabri Avery F. Gordon Michel Khleifi David Lloyd Peter Makhlouf Nicholas Mirzoeff Majdal Nateel Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Lara Sheehi Françoise Vergès Additional Contributors

This edition of the Conference of Butterflies asks contributors to share words, notions, practices which nourish or obstruct our movements from perceiving and abolishing all the forces, forms, institutions maintaining the planetary regime of ongoing Nakba.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
An exterior photo of a portion of a damaged building. The destroyed stairway has been re-constructed with concrete, scrap metal, and salvaged wood. And the door has been replaced with plywood. In the background there is a rolling hill covered in olive trees, shrubland, and other damaged buildings.
11 November 2026, 20:30

The Nakba in the Room

Rene Gabri Ayreen Anastas Additional Contributors

Where has art stood in the Nakba’s perpetration? The Nakba in the Room is part of a response and a search for an exit from complicity; improvised, wrestled and unmade in the same time of its viewing.

Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas
From a flat roof top, a pigeon flys to the right. on the roof are metal canisters weighted with brick, metal poles and frames and wires. In the distance we see the blurred outline of a city located in a dry desert like landscape.
17 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

Toward Nakba as a Planetary Process

Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri Houria Bouteldja Avery F. Gordon Françoise Vergès Additional Contributors

An assembly to try and provide some experiential and theoretical resources for the renewal of a certain affective, extra-political sociality, in the face of one of our great adversaries; the forces of colonial, imperial, genocidal denial.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
At the edge of a roadside stand a group of 3 people. A person dressed in black robes is being filmed by one person and is talking to the camera. Another person stands next to them listening. To the left of the group is the back of a van heavily loaded with personal belongings including laundry bags, chairs, cooking pot, plastic water bottle & oil.
13 November 2024
Tramway Live Stream

For Ever Gaza

Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri

An improvised film about our worlds at the brink, on the edge, in front of a crisis. To stand on the side of life, by seeing the resistance to genocide in Palestine as a turning point to overcome.

Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It
Ayreen Anastas seated at a kitchen table in the evening
21 January 2012
CCA

Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri

Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri

An open-ended moment in an ongoing series of films, notes, performances, diagrams and drawings which trace the questions they share. A “porous space between cinema time-space and lived time-space.”

Episode 1: A Film is a Statement