SPEAK UP: What is the art community’s potential in solidarity with Palestine?
Artist’s in Iceland Visa Action Group (AIVAG) and Icelandic Artists for Palestine invite you for an event to gather and discuss art’s potential as a solidarity force with Palestine. The event starts at 15:30 when List fyrir Palestína hands over the proceedings from the art auction to Ísland-Palestína. Discussions start at 16:00.
Recent censorships, attacks on artists and art institutions and numerous statements of solidarity have brought initiatives and institutions at the forefront of voices. If discussion can not take place within institutions and by artists testimonies, documentation and witnessing which the art by definition is committed to doing, then where? Questions however arise: what do such discussions, actions and statements amount to in the end? What structures and future solidarity standpoints can we develop as a community?
For the event we have invited representatives of initiatives and institutions that have been vocal in Iceland’s solidarity with Palestine. We would like to discuss the solidarity potential residing within the artistic context and ask how we can further implement and continue on.
The discussion will take place in English and all participants are invited to sit in a circle. Please note there will be limited seating in the space so please arrive early.
Participants:
Hugo Llanes representing AIVAG. Hugo Llanes is a visual artist and a member of AIVAG, a group working towards better labor rights of immigrant artists working in Iceland. Hugo has exhibited and performed actively in the art scene in Iceland and abroad, most recently in Taller Art space, Nýló and Gerðarsafn.
Nína Hjálmarsdóttir representing Sleikur, a series of queer club nights focused on creating a place where people can express their gender identity, sexuality and fluidity, safely. As well as organizing Sleikur, Nína is a theater critic for the Icelandic national radio and an assistant professor at LHÍ. Nína has been vocal about Palestine both recently and in 2019 when Israel hosted Eurovision.
Þórdís Helgadóttir is an icelandic writer who been vocal about the situation in Gaza, for example by publicly opting out of performing at an event in the Prime ministry of Iceland due to the governments’ inaction about Palestine.
Sóley Stefánsdóttir is an Icelandic musician and on the board of the Icelandic union for composers and lyric writers, who put out a statement urging The Icelandic National Broadcast Service to opt out of participating in Eurovision if Israel will participate.
Ekram Zubaydi has worked with the Palestinian Centre for Peace and Democracy for over a decade. Her projects have aimed for raising awareness with young palestinians about their civil rights, and encouraging their engagement in politics, especially with young women in the area.
Artist’s in Iceland Visa Action Group (AIVAG) and Icelandic Artists for Palestine invite you for an event to gather and discuss art’s potential as a solidarity force with Palestine. The event starts at 15:30 when List fyrir Palestína hands over the proceedings from the art auction to Ísland-Palestína. Discussions start at 16:00.
Recent censorships, attacks on artists and art institutions and numerous statements of solidarity have brought initiatives and institutions at the forefront of voices. If discussion can not take place within institutions and by artists testimonies, documentation and witnessing which the art by definition is committed to doing, then where? Questions however arise: what do such discussions, actions and statements amount to in the end? What structures and future solidarity standpoints can we develop as a community?
For the event we have invited representatives of initiatives and institutions that have been vocal in Iceland’s solidarity with Palestine. We would like to discuss the solidarity potential residing within the artistic context and ask how we can further implement and continue on.
The discussion will take place in English and all participants are invited to sit in a circle. Please note there will be limited seating in the space so please arrive early.
Participants:
Hugo Llanes representing AIVAG. Hugo Llanes is a visual artist and a member of AIVAG, a group working towards better labor rights of immigrant artists working in Iceland. Hugo has exhibited and performed actively in the art scene in Iceland and abroad, most recently in Taller Art space, Nýló and Gerðarsafn.
Nína Hjálmarsdóttir representing Sleikur, a series of queer club nights focused on creating a place where people can express their gender identity, sexuality and fluidity, safely. As well as organizing Sleikur, Nína is a theater critic for the Icelandic national radio and an assistant professor at LHÍ. Nína has been vocal about Palestine both recently and in 2019 when Israel hosted Eurovision.
Þórdís Helgadóttir is an icelandic writer who been vocal about the situation in Gaza, for example by publicly opting out of performing at an event in the Prime ministry of Iceland due to the governments’ inaction about Palestine.
Sóley Stefánsdóttir is an Icelandic musician and on the board of the Icelandic union for composers and lyric writers, who put out a statement urging The Icelandic National Broadcast Service to opt out of participating in Eurovision if Israel will participate.
Ekram Zubaydi has worked with the Palestinian Centre for Peace and Democracy for over a decade. Her projects have aimed for raising awareness with young palestinians about their civil rights, and encouraging their engagement in politics, especially with young women in the area.
