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PhD Funding Application
Resurgent Places: Practice-based Repair Across the West Asia and North Africa Region
Partnership: Central Saint Martins and Mosaic Rooms
Director of Studies: Dr Elisa Adami @elisa_adami
Co-supervisor: Nadine Monem @nadinemonem

Overview
The region spanning West Asia and North Africa (WANA) has historically been – and continues to be – made and unmade through colonial, extractive and militarist violence as well as through the imposition of discursive frameworks produced elsewhere. If in 1978 Edward Said identified ‘orientalism’ as the nineteenth-century knowledge system that paved the way to the Western colonisation of the ‘Middle East’, contemporary forms of ‘geographical profiling’ continue to portray and define the region as ‘a site of sectarian violence, of petroleum capitalism and a dumping ground of imperialist debris’ (Yıldırım, 2023).

Environmentally, the WANA region sits largely within an arid to semi-arid climate zone stretching from Mauritania to Central Asia. Its fragile ecosystems are vulnerable to drought and desertification – risks further compounded by global warming. This advancing ‘aridity line’ has been characterised as a ‘conflict shoreline’ where climate change and political conflict intertwine (Weizman and Sheikh, 2015). This intersection of colonial/military violence and environmental risk is a typical case of ‘group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death’ (Wilson Gilmore, 2017) in the sacrifice zones produced by racial capitalism.

We invite applications that advance place-(re)making practices as modes to address/redress these palimpsests of social, spatial and environmental injustices across the region, specifically those caused by the intersection of wars, colonisation and climate change.

🔗Application information in bio by @elisa_adami

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Since its launch, Ibraaz Publishing has sought to provide a platform for writers, academics, and artists to reflect on the immediate and long-term consequences of Israel’s genocidal and ecocidal actions in Gaza/Palestine through a range of critical lenses and personal perspectives.

Drawing on Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Theory of Water (2025), Elisa Adami ( @elisa_adami ) finds in Palestine’s ancestral water cultures a source of life-affirming resistance against the ecocide in Gaza.

Zahrat al Ghoula زهرة الغولة, by Adam Rouhana ( @adam.rouhana ) and Juline Hadaya ( @julinehadaya ) , is a visual elegy combining still and moving image, sound, and text that shares the lived experiences of Ahmad, a Palestinian farmer from Sinjil (a town northeast of Ramallah) who is denied regular access to his lands.

Against the backdrop of global inaction to prevent and cease the current genocide and ecocide in Gaza, Shela Sheikh ( @shelasheikh ) explores the role of cultural institutions in staging critical debates regarding human rights, (international) law, and their colonial and liberal underpinnings.

🌐 Read and watch via our website at the link in bio.

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Jumana Emil Abboud, ( @jumanasan ) I Feel Everything (2022), video still. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Issa Freij.

Adam Rouhana and Juline Hadaya, Zahrat al Ghoula (2025), video still. Courtesy of the artist.

Radha D’Souza ( @dsouzaradha ) and Jonas Staal ( @jonas_staal ), Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial, 2025, Serpentine Galleries Ecologies. Photo: Ruben Hamelink.

#IbraazLondon #Ibraaz #IbraazPublishing by @elisa_adami

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OUT NOW: Issue 58 – Geo-Imaginaries of Technology

Conceived during a period of rapid and often unchecked technological development, the current issue of Afterall aims at reconsidering and expanding our understanding of what ‘technology’ is. A multifarious category, we approach technology here as always embedded within and informed by the particular conditions of the geopolitical, cultural and environmental contexts in which it is used and developed. Through this situated approach we hope to move away from a Eurocentric concept of technology and to make room instead for the multiple perspectives which shape what philosopher Yuk Hui calls ‘technodiversity’.

Exploring an array of disparate technologies – ranging from AI and cyborgs to bioengineering and surfing – as well as diverse geocultural contexts, the issue includes contributions from Li Qi @liqipedia , Ingrid Pui Yee Chu @chupuiyee1771 , Christin Yu @chriiistin , Filipa Ramos @filipaaaaaaaaaaa , Joël Vacheron @joelvacheron , Nicolas Vamvouklis @vamvouklisn and Dorota Jagoda Michalska. It features artists Lawrence Lek @lawrencelek , Lee Bul @lee.bul , Revital Cohen @r.e.v.i.t.a.l.c.o.h.e.n and Tuur Van Balen @tuur.vanbalen , Sojung Jun, Im Heung-soon @im_heungsoon_69, Flaka Haliti @flakahaliti_ and Kateryna Lysovenko.

On the occasion of the publication of this issue, we have made freely available on our website ‘Natural Causes: The Deaths and Afterlives of Art at the Digital Precipice’ by Ingrid Pui Yee Chu and ‘A Method with Plasticity: Sojung Jun in Conversation with Nav Haq & Adeena Mey’. by @elisa_adami

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Cultivating Relations, Composting Knowledge: A Convivial Gathering

From tables to trays, from words to floorplans, from tastes to transformation.

Grouped around self-designed themes, all participants contributed to the creation of a mini-community of practice. They welcomed one another, swapped refreshments, shared their interests, and together re-imagined The Doctoral Room. The room, typically an afterthought, is now working to effectively support collective knowledge exchange.

Participants prepared and tasted non-alcoholic fermented drinks for one another. Here fermentation opened a space for shared inquiry through sensory attention and material transformation. Time thickened. Fermentation made space to attend to digestion, porous bodies, and gut-thinking, making space for slow relations to be molded and come alive.

Paper disks hidden inside metal trays became the vehicle: a site of dynamic marking, fantasizing, and remaking. By the end of the night, the Doctoral Room held more than tables, it held leftovers of conversation, chuckle marks, and pungent scents. These trays and discs now hang on the wall, a developing archive and invitation to future thinking-together.

The space fermented and remolded, left a trace of what happened, and an opening for what might still unfold.

A huge thanks to our wonderful collaborators and hosts:
@agnesepoliti @ashna.zip @afterallresearch @elisa_adami @lucyjmd_ by @elisa_adami

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Podcast series: Afterall x Para Site, Reframing Strangeness
Episodes airing between July and September 2025

In collaboration with Para Site, Hong Kong @parasite.hk , as part of the exhibition ‘Reframing Strangeness: Ha Bik Chuen’s Motherboards and Collagraphs’ (2025), Afterall have initiated a series of conversations with artists, curators and scholars. The exhibition reframes Ha’s motherboards from functional tools to aesthetic objects. We depart from Ha’s unconventional printing practice to generate new interpretations and intergenerational conversations, extending from Hong Kong to the world beyond.

Focused on Hong Kong-based artist Ha Bik Chuen’s printmaking practice, ‘Reframing Strangeness’ stages a selection of his ‘motherboards’, a term Ha coined to designate the printing plates he labouriously assembled from wood and other found materials to produce over 3,000 editioned collagraphs. In the first episode, Afterall editors Elisa Adami @elisa_adami and Wing Chan @wingchanwww talk to the exhibition’s curator Michelle Wun Ting Wong @mwongwt . We explore how the materials the motherboards are made of can help us read Hong Kong’s history from the 1970s and its changing landscape.

🔗in bio by @elisa_adami

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Afterall at Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 ALOHA NŌ

2–4 April, Writing Workshop at HT25 HUB Taro Patch Community Space
5 April, Book Launch at HT25 HUB and Native Books

Editors Elisa Adami @elisa_adami and Wing Chan @wingchanwww will facilitate a three-day writing workshop as part of the Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 ALOHA NŌ curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu. With local practitioners we will explore how to write art hi/stories that are rooted in place and that decentre anthropocentric perspectives. The workshops resonate with HT25’s focus on the practice of aloha ʻāina (or love of the land) as a means of claiming indigenous sovereignty and nurturing a deep connectivity to the oceanic environment.

We will also launch our latest One Work book, Sung Hwan Kim: A Record of Drifting Across the Sea, with author Janine Armin @jarnineee

More information in bio taken in Honolulu, Hawaii by @elisa_adami

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