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Join us at LUX for the UK premiere of Red in Tooth by Dala Nasser. The film will be screened at 7pm, 7.20pm and 7.40pm, followed by a conversation at 8pm with the artist and Mhamad Safa, moderated by Adam HajYahia.

About the film Red in Tooth 2021, 21m29s

During the Occupation of the South of Lebanon starting in 1983, extraction pipes were established pumping out water from the Wazzani and across the frontier. The river and its surrounding ecology suffered a fate similar to the wildlife and humans of the region, slow violence resulting in complete toxicity.

In Red in Tooth we follow the drive towards the Wazzani River along the UN enforced Blue Line, positioning the environment in an elsewhere realm, in between opposing spaces, occupied by military surveillance and concrete animosity. Becoming an absent witness, or a witness of absence, around which culminates secrecy.

This talk and film is part of the programme War-Torn Ecologies: Resistant Worlds.

This event is supported by LUX.

About the speakers

Adam HajYahia is an independent researcher, writer, and curator from Palestine who currently lives in New York. His research focuses on images and performance in the revolutionary context of Palestine and the region, psychoanalysis and labour politics, and negative economic speculation within contemporary art. He’s currently Assistant Curator and Studio Manager at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College in New York.

Dala Nasser is a material-based artist working through abstraction and alternative forms of image-making, and applying an interdisciplinary approach through painting, performance, and film. Nasser’s works examine the human and non-human entanglement in the perpetually deteriorating ecological, historical, and political conditions resulting from practices of capitalist and colonial extraction. She has produced a body of work that takes the non-human as a witness to ecologies of slow violence, colonial theft and infrastructural failure in times where human language has been rendered out of reach. Dala Nasser (b. 1990 Tyre, Lebanon), lives and works in Beirut and London. She received her BFA from Slade School of Fine Art ‘16, and her MFA from Yale University ‘21. Her work has been shown internationally, including the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2023); 2024 Whitney Biennial; Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023); 58th Carnegie International (2022); Kunstverein Koln, Cologne (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); BetonSalon, Paris(2019); Beirut Art Center, Beirut (2017 and 2019); Sursock Museum, Beirut (2016) where she was awarded the Emerging Artist Prize at their annual Salon d’Automne.

Mhamad Safa is a London-based sound artist and architect whose work explores the intersection of multi-scalar spatial conditions and their sonic make-ups. His practice addresses the aural legacies of traditional subcultures, occultism, armed conflicts, shock and the aftermath of violence. He graduated from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University and is currently a PhD candidate in International Law at the University of Westminster. He is an Associate Lecturer in  Architecture and Media Studies at the Royal College of Art in London.

The programme War-Torn Ecologies: Resistant Worlds is supported by Art Jameel and British Council through Anhar: Culture and Climate Platform.

Design by Rand Hamdallah.