This is a one day seminar at the Nottingham Contemporary in Nottingham (obviously) Links at the bottom of post.
28 Jan 2012
10.30am – 6pm, Free, Gallery 2
With DAAR, Rasha Salti, Nicola Perugini, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (16 Beaver Group), Sari Hanafi, Lieven De Cauter, Ismael Sheikh Hassan, Berlage Studio
A one day seminar within DAAR’s reconstruction of the Palestinian Parliament, A Common Assembly will consider the new nature of political action and association, against the background of current collective protest in the Middle East and around the world.
Running order of the day:
10:30: Introduction
10:45: Session One: The Public, The Private, The Common
Lieven De Cauter – The Place of the Common: Revisiting Heterotopia from the perspective of the Commons
11:15: Nicola Perugini – Anomic State: Un-normed, Abnormal or Common?
11:45: DAAR and the Berlage Studio – Returns to the Common
12:15: Discussion
12:45: Lunch Break
1.45: Session Two: Refugees, State, Representation
Sari Hanafi – An Extraterritorial Nation-State
2:15: Rasha Salti – Imagining the Revolution, Representing Palestininas: Palestinian Poster Art and the International Exhibition solidarity with Palestine
2:45: Ismael Sheikh Hassan – Refugee and Political Representation: PLO reform and the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees
3:15: Discussion
3:45: Coffee Break
4.15: Session Three: Citizenship, Revolts, Occupation
4:45: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri – The Base of the Air is Common
5:15: Discussion and Conclusions
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/decolonizing-architecture-art-residency-daar

Shall we send a contingent?
I’m well up for this…. anybody else
Sweet thats at least 2 of us well some peeps will be at the individual project thing at 47 on the 10th so iwe could try and round up numbers then
Interested