The Mosaic Rooms

The Mosaic Rooms presents a reading list for the group exhibition In the shade of the sun, contemplating the relationship between politics and aesthetics by an exciting new generation of Palestinian artists. The exhibition comprises new multimedia installations by artists Mona Benyamin, Xaytun Ennasr and Dina Mimi as well as a new sonic performance commission by Makimakkuk.

Reading List:

. “Afro, Indigenous, and Palestinian Futurisms: Writing Across Space and Time” by Marya Hannun, in ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
. “A Tale of Two Pills” by Rouzbeh Shadpey, in Decolonial Hacker
. “Being in the Negative: An Interview with Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme”, by Amal Issa
. Between the Material and the Possible: Infrastructural Re-examination and Speculation in Art by Bassam El BaroniOrder
. The Book of Disappearance  by Ibtisam Azem
. The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire by Matthew Kraig Kelly Order
. “Decolonizing [in the] future: scenes of Palestinian temporality” by Nayrouz Abu Hartoum, in Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
. Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth by Matthew Fuller & Eyal Weizman Order
. Minor Detail by Adania Shibli Order
. Palestine +100: Stories from a Century After the Nakba, edited by Basma Ghalayini Order
. Palestine Underground (short documentary) by Boiler Room
. Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1990, edited by Moslih Kanaaneh, Stig-Magnus Thorsèn, Heather Bursheh, and David A. McDonald Order
. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han Order
. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa’ed Atshan Order
. Reworlding Ramallah, edited by Callum Copley Order
. “Smiling as an act of resistance in Occupied Palestine” by Mahmoud Soliman, in ROAR Magazine
. The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist by Emile Habiby
. These Olive Trees by Aya Ganameh Order
. “Women Reflected in their Own History”, by L, in e-flux