Join us for a two-day workshop facilitated by artist duo Huniti Goldox (Areej Huniti & Eliza Goldox). The workshop revolves around the intersections of ecology, water, mythology and geopolitical realities. Over the course of two days -participants will be invited into collective readings, exercises, screenings and walks.
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Workshop Details:
Tuesday, May 2
10am - 3pm*: Intro, lecture, screenings, collective exercises
Wednesday, May 3
10am - 3pm*: Collective exercises, neighborhood walk, and closing discussion
Lunch Break 12-1pm. Refreshments will be provided.
Location: Al Bustan Seeds of Culture, 3645 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19104 *The workshop will depart from Al Bustan for neighborhood walks and excursions.
Tickets: This program is free and open to the public, and registration is limited.
Workshop Artist Statement:
“During the workshop we aim to open up a window into the entangled relationships of ecological, geopolitical and mythological realities. We are interested in creating a space for building new relationships to matter that are reciprocal, erotic and transformative. Relationships that demand an active engagement with the world when it comes to revealing the lines of power that affect present ecological concerns such as resource scarcity, ecosystem collapse, extraction and dispossession. To refuse to reduce material to its value-generating abilities, is to recognise its entanglement with other beings. We are interested in accessing different perspectives such as imagining how the future could look from the perspective of an algae of an artificial post mining lake, or from the perspective of a flamingo eating in the toxic swamp lands of Tunisia, or of a grain of salt of a dried-out sea in the middle of the Sahara, or from the Bahamut, a cosmological creature of Amman’s buried river that carries the world on its back.”
HUNITI GOLDOX is an artist duo consisting of Areej Huniti & Eliza Goldox. In their practice they are interested in how political systems, transitions and violence affect water bodies and landscapes. Through contextual examinations of geopolitical realities, marginalized oral histories and mythologies they create films, videos, VR-works, installations, conversations, texts, workshops and interventions. They started with a project on a buried river in Amman/ Jordan and extended to the swamp lands and Mediterranean coast of Tunisia, the artificial lake-land of Leipzig and the urban development projects around Tirana River.
Areej Huniti received an MA in Global Digital Cultures from SOAS University of London and Eliza Goldox was awarded an MA in Art & Design at Chelsea College/University of the Arts London. Their collaborative work was exhibited and screened at Darat Al Funun, The MMAG Foundation & The Jordan National Gallery, Goethe Institute in Amman, SomoS Art House in Berlin, School Of Waters/ Biennale Mediterranea in San Marino, Sheffield Film Festival, D21 in Leipzig, TBA Academy/ Ocean Uni, Tirana Art Lab, Manifesta 14 in Kosovo and Hauser & Wirth Menorca.
This program is supported by the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, and co-organized by Penn’s Middle East Center, Al Bustan Seeds of Culture, and Past Present Projects. The workshop is organized in conjunction with the forthcoming multimedia exhibition project titled Geographies of the Future: Traveling the Arab Majority World in Virtual Reality, curated by Bridget Guarasci and Jessica Holland.