Palestine A-Z: An Illustrated Poem
2024
2024
Palestine A-Z: An Illustrated Poem envisions Mosab Abu Toha’s poem “Palestine A-Z” as an illustrated introduction to revolutionary will in Palestine. The poem sketches Palestine through the 26 letters of the English alphabet, where each letter presents notes, reflections, memories, lamentations, and questions on uprooting, exile, and home. The community of artists drawn together to produce these cards experiences the poem from diverse and varying perspectives. Those of us with family history from Palestine connect intimately with the poem’s existential meditations on sumud. Those of us descended from dislocations produced by state violence elsewhere in the world recognize the poem’s critique of borders, militarization, apartheid, and genocide. Those of us who recently joined the struggle for Palestine study the poem as testament to life and death in occupied Palestine. None of us have been to Palestine. All of us are activated in transnational anti-colonial work demonstrated here on the occupied territories that are home to xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nation, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw Nation, and səlilwətaɬ Nation.
Illustrations by community of artists during a reading of the poem March, 2024. Zine design by Jean Chisholm and Gabe Wong, printed on risograph. Introduction written by Sue Shon.
We are indebted to Mosab Abu Toha who inspired this project and are grateful to his powerful work as writer, educator, and librarian.
Illustrations by community of artists during a reading of the poem March, 2024. Zine design by Jean Chisholm and Gabe Wong, printed on risograph. Introduction written by Sue Shon.
We are indebted to Mosab Abu Toha who inspired this project and are grateful to his powerful work as writer, educator, and librarian.
Satellite x DESIS: A Five Month Residency for Emerging Artists and Designers Report and Archive
2021
Publication design and editorial with Laura Kozak, published by Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship and DESIS at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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Float School:
Pedagogical Experiments and Embodied Social Actions
2020
2020
Publication design and editorial with Justin Langlois,
Holly Schmidt and Annie Canto, published by Living Labs, 2020.
Float School is an infrastructural sculpture, a platform for dialogic and socially engaged work, and a vessel for dissemination created by Vancouver-based artists, curators and educators Justin Langlois and Holly Schmidt. This artist-led research, creation and programming initiative explores “floating” as a response to precarity as a contemporary condition intertwined with a diminishing investment in the notion of progress and its forward trajectory. As a platform for envisioning a shared future through artistic and pedagogical experiments, In recent years, Float School offered a series of intensive performative actions in Prince George and Vancouver with ECUAD & UNBC faculty, graduate students, local artists, teachers, and social workers. A digital publication that captures significant learning and strategies to support floating as a pedagogical stance was launched in the summer of 2020.
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Float School is an infrastructural sculpture, a platform for dialogic and socially engaged work, and a vessel for dissemination created by Vancouver-based artists, curators and educators Justin Langlois and Holly Schmidt. This artist-led research, creation and programming initiative explores “floating” as a response to precarity as a contemporary condition intertwined with a diminishing investment in the notion of progress and its forward trajectory. As a platform for envisioning a shared future through artistic and pedagogical experiments, In recent years, Float School offered a series of intensive performative actions in Prince George and Vancouver with ECUAD & UNBC faculty, graduate students, local artists, teachers, and social workers. A digital publication that captures significant learning and strategies to support floating as a pedagogical stance was launched in the summer of 2020.
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