Diana Al-Halabi

artistiek onderzoek - audiovisueel - autobiografisch - dekolonisatie - figuratief - gender - installatie - internationaal - lichaam - schilderen - schrijven - video

Pursuing an interdisciplinary practice, with a focus on moving image, text, and painting. My autoethnographic research-based projects are at the core of my practice. Departing from the personal to the political, my recent project "On Scales of Violence: How to Measure A Dictator?" explored the expansive body of the dictator and its relation to the Patriarch in family units. Through an intersectional feminist lens, I investigated notions such as the vertical political gaze, cognitive anthropometry, the visa regime, and the bureaucratic Machina.

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    • Striking Normativity: The Art of Being Surprised (Essay)

    Lezing

    Videoranjersey "Contemporary video art from the Netherlands" (Screening)

    Overig

    • 25-01-2022 t/m 25-01-2022
    • Locatie: Jersey Art Center, Jersey, Jersey
    • Screening of my film Aspect Ratio

    "The Last Supper or a Class in History" (performance)

    Performance

    • 18-11-2021 t/m 18-11-2021
    • Locatie: IDFA, Amsterdam
    • A performance responding to the Palestinian artist Jumana Manna's film Wild Relatives which unfolds a matrix of plant lives, peasants' lives, and seed banks. Following a trip of seeds from Aleppo to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, back to Lebanon, and finally back to the Arctic. "The Last Supper or a Class In History" performance was part of the program "To Carry The Sun" curated by Narges Mohammadi for IDFA Film Festival | 2021

    Rape culture, Language, and Marwan Habib (Article)

    Lezing

    Material Context

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 01-07-2021 t/m 11-07-2021
    • Locatie: Het Archief Robert Fruinstraat 52, Rotterdam
    • Graduation show of the MFA at Piet Zwart Institute of 26 artists, 2 works of mine are presented in this exhibition.

    Holding Palestine

    Performance

    • 03-06-2021 t/m 09-06-2021
    • Locatie: Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
    • 7 days performance, holding the banner in solidarity with Palestinian people and against the censorship of Piet Zwart Institute management.
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/CPpphQOsjgu/

    Print & Play (Online Exhibition) “Your Guide to Taking Back (Temporarily) What We Have Taken From You (Permanently) ”

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    Cairo Video Festival screening "Aspect Ratio" (screening)

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    Erkenningen

      Stipendium

    • Research and Development CBK GRANT

    • 2022
      Stipendium