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NO GENOCIDE PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

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ART WORKERS AGAINST ARMS

On 3 October, ANGA joins the national and international ports assembly in Genoa.

For months, dockworkers, students, youth movements and culture workers have been building toward an international day of strike action on Friday 30 October.

The call comes from dockworkers across Mediterranean ports. In solidarity with Palestine, they refuse war, militarisation and the drive by European ruling classes to rearm the war machine.

At the 61st Venice Biennale strike on May 8, we saw what’s possible when workers organise across sectors. Our struggles are connected. The same precarity that defines cultural work—short contracts, unpaid labour, no benefits, no job security—is what enables institutions to look away from genocide while artwashing their complicity and accepting toxic funding.

Dockworkers hold real power. They sit at the heart of the supply chain and can block arms shipments and shut the system down, as “Blocchiamo Tutto” showed across Italy last year.

ANGA will be in Genoa on 3 October. In solidarity with the people of Palestine and with dockworkers, we call on artists, curators and art workers at the Venice Biennale and everywhere to join the strike on 30 October against the war economy and the arms trade.

ART WORKERS, JOIN THE STRIKE! by @angalliance

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Art Not Genocide Alliance details the organizing that went into the May 8 Venice Biennale strike.

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Read it at e-flux Notes. Link in bio.

Image: In front of the Japanese Pavilion, May 8, 2026, Venice Biennale. by @angalliance

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IT:
Ieri, 15 ottobre 2026, è stata una giornata magica:
quasi 200 spettacoli teatrali in tutto il mondo hanno dato voce alle parole di “PALESTINESI SONO I TUOI OCCHI”.
Questo straordinario risultato è stato possibile grazie ai teatri, ai collettivi, alle scuole, ai centri culturali, allə attivistə e alle organizzazioni umanitarie che hanno scelto di stare al nostro fianco.

Ci siamo riusciti solo grazie a voi!

Per un giorno, persone provenienti da ogni parte del mondo si sono unite per portare le parole del collettivo Anqa oltre i confini che loro stessi non possono attraversare.

Grazie per aver preso parte a questa azione globale di resistenza culturale.
Grazie per esservi uniti a questo immenso abbraccio e per aver testimoniato che Abraham non sarà mai dimenticato.

Abraham vive in tutti noi.

Per un giorno, siamo stati tutti Fenici.

Per un giorno, siamo stati tutti Anqa. by @angalliance

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𝗪𝗲, 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗮 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗭𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀, are writing about New Zealand’s conduct at the 2026 Venice Biennale, supported by what we have learned from official information that has been released to us.

What that information reveals is a gap between what the public was told and what was decided in private. While the chair of Creative New Zealand (CNZ)’s governing body, the Arts Council’s Kent Gardner, publicly stated that they “𝘂𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀”, almost everyone who was sent to Venice had been instructed in writing not to speak. CNZ’s own records describe that advice as being prepared “𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿.”

We are asking CNZ, its governing board the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, and Paul Goldsmith, Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, to answer immediately and publicly for that conduct.

The full letter is across these slides.

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𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘐𝘈 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘰 by @angalliance

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ARTWASHING GENOCIDE AT THE 83rd VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The 83rd Venice International Film Festival is currently in full flow and continues La Biennale’s veneer of business as usual within the upper echelons of the cultural sector.

This year the festival persists with normalisation, presenting the new film of Israeli director Amos Gitai who, at a festival press conference this weekend, advocated for “dialogue not boycott” while failing to denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza or make any mention of Palestine.

Meanwhile hundreds of international filmmakers and artists, organised by Venice4Palestine, continue to call for concrete actions in support of Palestine. Their demands include transparency throughout the film industry supply chain and the suspension of agreements with entities and institutions linked to the Israeli government. The appeal is also supported by various Italian and international associations and collectives, including Global Sumud Flotilla, BDS Italia, Artists for Palestine Italia and France, FRACBI (French Coordination for the Academic, Cultural, and Sports Boycott of Israel), Artisti #NoBavaglio, AMLETA, UICD (Italian Union of Casting Directors), and Voci per la Palestina.

ANGA supports these demands which highlight the institutional complicity across all aspects of La Biennale’s cultural programming, as the Israeli flag flies at the Lido, and the Genocide Pavilion remains open in the Arsenale as part of the International Art Exhibition.

The promotion of dialogue and building bridges is an insult to Palestinians in a system that is complicit in Israel’s art washing and provides consistent cover for the genocidal settler colonial entity. by @angalliance

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a month ago

Venice 4 Palestine vi invita al panel
EPPURE GAZA CONTINUA A BRUCIARE
(a cosa serve vedere se non ad agire?)

Martedì 8 settembre
Ore 17.30
Casa degli Autori

Quali strumenti politici e legali possono portare il mondo dell’audiovisivo (e della cultura in generale) a intraprendere azioni efficaci?

Il collettivo Venice4Palestine riflette su come le lavoratrici e i lavoratori del cinema e dell’audiovisivo possano non rendersi complici, anche inconsapevoli, dell’art washing e del soft power di Israele e della normalizzazione del genocidio, in un contesto internazionale che non difende concretamente i diritti e la vita del popolo palestinese.

Dalla necessità di un’azione comune, abbiamo elaborato insieme a una squadra legale un primo strumento che permetta a ogni lavoratorə del cinema di dissociarsi dalla complicità con i crimini che Israele continua a commettere impunemente.

Questo documento coniuga Costituzione italiana, Diritto internazionale e Diritto d’autore, in risposta alla recente controversia sulla retrospettiva di cinema italiano in Israele e a quel senso di impotenza espresso dagli autori coinvolti riguardo la gestione e lo sfruttamento delle loro opere e della loro immagine.

Interverranno figure diverse tra loro (portuali, avvocati, filmmaker, attivisti) ma unite da un solo intento: sostenere la liberazione della Palestina e l’autodeterminazione del suo popolo.

Introduce:
Giacomo Durzi, vice presidente Giornate degli Autori e sceneggiatore

Modera:
Silvia Pegah Scaglione, coordinamento V4P

Intervengono:
Francesca Albanese, relatrice speciale delle Nazioni Unite sui territori palestinesi occupati
Insaf Rezagui, ricercatrice associata presso l’Institut français du Proche-Orient
Enrica Rigo, team legale Global Sumud Flotilla
Saleh Bakri, attore
Fabio Marcelli, co-presidente del CRED – Centro di ricerca ed elaborazione per la democrazia
Josè Nivoi, USB Mare e Porti/CALP Genova

Con la partecipazione di:
Graziella Bildesheim e Milena Fiore, Gaza International Festival for Women’s Cinema
Rappresentantə del collettivo ANGA
Rappresentantə di rete #nobavaglio

Link in bio per il documento legale

realizzato con il contributo di BANCA ETICA taken in Mostra del Cinema Venezia by @angalliance

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MASAFER YATTA. UN LABORATORIO DI PULIZIA ETNICA
📍 Riva di Corinto, Venezia
📅 11 settembre 2026, ore 21:00

In occasione dell’83ª Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia, Mediterranea Venezia, in collaborazione con Isola Edipo e con la partecipazione di ANGA – Art Not Genocide Alliance, propone una serata di confronto e approfondimento dedicata a Masafer Yatta, nel cuore della Cisgiordania.

Un’occasione per presentare il rapporto annuale 2025 di Mediterranea with Palestine sulle violazioni dei diritti umani compiute dalle forze di occupazione in Cisgiordania e per dare spazio a chi vive e racconta questa realtà.

Ne parleremo con Mohammad Hureini, attivista palestinese di Youth of Sumud, e Caterina Rigo, attivista di Mediterranea Saving Humans.

A moderare l’incontro sarà Naomi Pedri Stocco di Mediterranea Venezia.

Un appuntamento per ascoltare, confrontarsi e approfondire. Perché anche gli spazi della cultura possono essere luoghi in cui prendere posizione e non voltarsi dall’altra parte.

Vi aspettiamo a Riva di Corinto, l’11 settembre alle 21:00. by @angalliance

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This week’s recommended reading is “On the Making of the May 8 Strike at the 61st Venice Biennale”, a sharp and layered reflection by the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) group @angalliance that documents the organizing behind the unprecedented cultural strike that brought artists, curators, technicians, educators, and art workers together in refusal of the normalization of genocide within one of the art world’s most prominent institutions. The essay situates the strike within a longer project of building durable infrastructures of solidarity, and offers an urgent account of what collective action can look like when it is grounded in political clarity and an unwavering commitment to Palestinian liberation. 
The following slides are excerpts; to read the full essay, please visit e-flux at e-flux.com/notes. 
Photo credits: Gloria Habsburg @glohabsi by @angalliance

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2 months ago

Are you an actor, actress, or theatre maker? Do you run a theatre company, venue, or cultural center?

On October 15, 2026, take part in Palestinians Are Your Eyes, a global simultaneous reading featuring six short stories written by the authors of the Anqa Theatre Company, founded in Gaza in 2022.

🤝 Want to get involved? Drop a comment below.

📣 Know someone or a cultural space that should join? Share this post or tag them.

This worldwide initiative consists of six powerful narratives exploring the past, present, and future of Gaza through the eyes of young Palestinian women and men.

🫂 This project is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend Abraham Saidam, an Anqa company member killed by airstrikes on October 15, 2023. by @angalliance

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At Venice Biennial 2026, the jury tried to exclude Israel over its committing genocide in Gaza and was forced to resign under legal threat. Artists and workers refused complicity, exposing the art world’s crisis of legitimacy.

🇵🇸 Read ‘Black, White, Green and Red at Venice Biennale 2026’ by Eero Yli-Vakkuri on NO NIIN Issue 35: Who Rests When the Pain Is Shared?

🔗 Link in bio

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Image: ANGA & art workers on strike. Biennalocene, Vogliamo Tutt’altro, Sale Docks, Mi Riconosci, and Italian trade unions including ADL Cobas, USB, and CUB standing the line. Photo: Terike Haapoja taken in La Biennale, Venice by @angalliance

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From the Biennale to the streets: the struggle continues.

On 17 July, we stand with the mobilisation against the visit of U.S. Ambassador Tilman Fertitta, Trump’s representative in Italy, who arrives in Venice aboard his $450 million superyacht while the United States continues to arm, finance and politically shield Israel’s genocide in Palestine.

For us, this is not a separate struggle. It is part of the same political trajectory that has connected the strikes for Palestine in the autumn of 2025, the mobilisations in support of the Freedom Flotilla, and our campaign to boycott the Genocide Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Earlier this year, ANGA’s Guide to Complicity identified the United States as a central site of complicity, exposing the role of the U.S. state in enabling the genocide in Gaza and sustaining the infrastructures of colonial and imperial violence. Today, that same complicity docks in Venice in the form of a Trump ambassador celebrating “American values” aboard a $450 million superyacht.

We refuse the cultural normalisation of genocide. We refuse the militarisation of our cities. We refuse the capture of Venice by oligarchs, war profiteers and the representatives of imperial power.

From the boycott of the Genocide Pavilion to the protest against Fertitta, our message remains the same: no business as usual with genocide.

FREE PALESTINE. VENEZIA NON SI USA.

See you again in the streets of Venice. 17 July, Campo S. Zaccaria, 18:00. by @angalliance

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Ieri 12 Giugno 2026, noi lavorat* della cultura, abbiamo scioperato.

Tra Venezia, Palermo, Cagliari, Milano, Roma e l’Italia ci siamo riconosciute in piazza. Distanti ma vicine siamo diventate le Eco delle nostre voci.

Voci contro l’arte come privilegio, l’arte come strumento trainante di ideologie politiche che non ci rappresentano. Contro i contratti non riconosciuti perché non riconoscibili. Contro la pensione che non vedrai mai e contro la Digos che non ti fa stendere le bandiere in piazza. Contro la militarizzazione dello spazio pubblico che ormai è tutto privato perché capitalizzato per generare valore puramente economico.
Voci contro gli spazi inaccessibili.
Contro gli abusi sui corpi come oggetti.

Voci contro il genocidio in Palestina e l’economia di guerra, Isr4ele e la sua arte ancora calpestabile a Venezia, alla Biennale.

Grazie a chi ieri c’era e grazie a chi non ha un contratto per poterci essere.

Se potrai, a Roma ci vediamo il 22 Giugno alle 18:30 @angelo_mai_roma così parliamo di cosa è stato ieri e cosa sarà domani. E poi brindiamo che ci serve anche questo. Se no scrivici che ci sentiamo!

CREA UNA FORMA DI LOTTA, mobilita! Amplifica! Blocca! Boicotta! by @angalliance

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