Palestine at/without the Museum: Loss, Metaphor and Emancipation

This seminar is curated by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti within the context of the exhibition Past Disquiet. Narratives and Ghosts from the International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978, with Fadi Bardawil, Catherine David, Alfredo Jaar, Kristine Khouri, Rasha Salti and Elias Sanbar.
The conceit of archival and documentary exhibitions proposes a critical revision of historiography and of the intellectual mindset that frames the production of knowledge about artistic and museographic practice. How has the relationship of Palestine, a state still struggling for international recognition, to the museum and museographic practice evolved over time? Can a museum become the site for incarnating the aspiration for statehood? Palestine has embodied a ‘metaphor’ for the aspirations of several generations of Arab militants, intellectuals and artists, for self-determination, justice and freedom of expression. Can a metaphor be exhibited in a museum? And lastly, The International Art Exhibition for Palestine (1978) was intended to become an itinerant museum in exile, but its archival traces were lost. It crystallised forms of worldly political engagement among artists in the 1970s that have totally lapsed and its ‘excavation’ interrogates critically prevailing narratives of art historical writing.

Palestine at/without the Museum: Loss, Metaphor and Emancipation is a seminar that invites intellectual and cultural historians Elias Sanbar (Palestine/France) and Fadi Bardawil (Lebanon), curator Catherine David (France) and artist Alfredo Jaar (Chile) to reflect on the key questions raised by the documentary and archival exhibition Past Disquiet: Narratives and Ghosts from The International Art Exhibition for Palestine, conceived to mediate and incarnate the research around The International Art Exhibition for Palestine of 1978.

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