Inauguration of the Communist Museum of Palestine دال-صفر d-0) in Bergen

Saturday, 8.November
10:00-13:00
Bergen Assembly Open Office

The Communist Museum of Palestine دال-صفر (d-0) invites the public, hosts and caregivers, artists, and those interested to animate the museum, to join us in inaugurating the first effort outside Palestine to host this museum. We will get to know each other over coffee and tea, and hosts will have a chance to select the gifted artworks which will have recently arrived or are waiting for their caretakers. We will conclude the gathering with a walk visiting some of the hosting venues and artworks.

The Communist Museum of Palestine is a proposal to destitute the model of the museum in its current form, reclaiming a communist ethics by instituting a real decolonial movement in Palestine and beyond. Along with friends and interested collaborators, the museum and its caregivers propose to reconstruct a real museum in Palestine over the coming years, communising, decolonising, deterritorialising, deconstructing, decentring, destituting, displacing, and abolishing the very sense and use of a museum as it exists today, as well as its imperial and colonial geneses. It introduces permeability to the existing separations between creators, caretakers, objects, and practices of safekeeping or value, and their respective beholders.