This artist talk departs from the Palestinian pedagogue and mathematician Munir Fasheh’s belief in the emancipatory potential of turbeh (soil earth). It seeks to reflect on the present moment by revisiting the lost grain of an image with a series of prompts and provocations centred on soil.

Oraib Toukan is an artist based in Berlin, and a EUME scholar at the Forum Transregionale Studien in collaboration with the Harun Farocki Institute. Through a diverse body of works that employ photography, film, and text, she explores vernacular understandings of images often drawing from the rich lexicon of the Arabic language.

Image: Oraib Toukan, Offing, 2021. Single-channel video (color, sound); 29 min.

This event is part of the This Land is Your Land series organised by Georgia Hablutzel, Hamed Khosravi and Platon Issaias.

The series will explore the legacies of land commodification through visual, textual, and theoretical practices. Moving through disciplines of architecture, visual art, and law these lenses will provide a field to examine the legacies of power embedded in how land is recorded, possessed, and weaponised.

It will navigate various geographic contexts, from Europe and the Middle East to the Caribbean, in order to study the forms of historical and contemporary influence of Property on the formation of Land. Through practitioners' work This Land is Your Land seeks to unveil legal, social, economic, spatial, and political relations.

Often overlooked in contemporary discussions around architecture and spatial production, the series wishes to illuminate how Property is used as a method to mediate the dispute of historic sovereign powers. The lectures seek to reveal how jurisdiction, representation, indignity could serve as productive forces in imagining new relationships towards property and rights.

Please get in touch to let us know of any access requirements that you might have and how we can best accommodate these. If you are unable to attend physically but would like to participate in the event remotely please email publicprogramme@aaschool.ac.uk