The Communist Museum of Palestine دال-صفر (d-0): Artwalk and talk with Rana Anani

Friday, 7.November
16:00-18:00
Meeting point: P1 Studio in front of Bergen Cathedral School

The Bergen Committee of the museum and d-0 د٠ invites the public, friends, hosts, and artists to join a tour of Bergen Cathedral School/Bergen Katedralskole to view the artworks hosted by the school. Please meet us at 16:00 at P1 Mobile Studio in front of Bergen Cathedral School.

At 17:00, curator, writer, and researcher Rana Anani will share some notes for a conversation reflecting on art and practices of solidarity in response to the ongoing obliterative violence of the Nakba at Bodega, which is located around the corner from the school.

Rana Anani (b. 1973, Ramallah) is a curator, writer, and researcher focusing on the intersection of art, archives, and solidarity. She has worked for the Palestinian Museum, Qalandiya International, the Palestinian Pavilion at Cannes, and the Sharjah Biennale 13 off-site project “Shifting Grounds” in Ramallah. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies, a Fellow at Alserkal Art Foundation, and a Board Member at Sakakini Cultural Center.

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.