Under the glare of the moonتحت وهج القمر
About the Project
We are thrilled to announce our first printed publication, Under the glare of the moon: Aesthetic Lineages of Revolt written by Adam HajYahia with an accompanying artwork by Haitham Haddad.
“Using wit, performative gestures, embodied articulations, song and encrypted protest chants, the streets of Palestine have been producing a revolutionary language and practice that is consistent and innovative, formulated within a persistent tradition of the oppressed. This revolutionary practice’s intuitive nature and aesthetic cogency are seldom recognised as a climacteric part of a political lineage. Yet, time and again, they demonstrate how inseparable the aesthetic and the political are. It is true that, in our case, this lineage is traced in Palestine’s colonial context, but it also extends beyond – forming alliances and assemblages with other communities fighting violent and extractive structures of power…The streets continue to be the primary battlefield where orders are fractured and alienated communities are united, but, ultimately, we return there each time with the yearning that this time it will be the last call to get free.”
The publication was realized with the support of The Mosaic Rooms on the occasion of the exhibition In the shade of the sun.
Artist Bios
Haitham Haddad
Haitham Haddad is a visual artist and graphic designer whose work centers on historical and contemporary manifestations of myth and folklore, as well as political tensions between the individual and the collective. He works at the intersection of printmaking, illustration, video, and tattooing, with an ongoing investment to revisit past histories and test how they can reshape the present.
Adam HajYahia
Adam HajYahia is invested in the relationships between aesthetics and politics; capitalism and desire; negative speculation and contemporary art. Through his work as a writer and curator, he examines how practices of image-making, performance, poetry, and sound reflect on and affect revolutions to erupt, be suspended, and/or terminate. He is interested in how psychic desire is at once captured and unbound by capital and the aesthetic practices that tirelessly attempt to forge a way out.
In the shade of the sunفي ظل الشمس
To all those we are indebted to إلى كلِّ الذين نحن مَدينون لهم
Abu Jildeh & al-Armeetأبو جلدة والعرميط
