A workshop about archiving and organising, inspired by the commons in West Asia and North Africa
Marwa Arsanios and Tizintizwa Collective (Soumeya Ait Ahmed and Nadir Bouhmouch)
Please join us for a workshop on archiving and organising, inspired by the commons in West Asia and North Africa. After a brief introduction, participants divide into two groups, focusing on different practices.
Soumeya Ait Ahmed and Nadir Bouhmouch will run a workshop on adopting the ancestral concepts of the Agadir (a collective granary) and Agraw (a consensus-based village assembly) into contemporary archiving practices, using their AWAL research on oral archives as a case study. In parallel, Marwa Arsanios will guide a reflection on how the Mashaa (a communal system of land tenure that transcends ownership and still exists in West Asia) can be applied to art organisations of different scales. We will conclude with a group session where participants can share their insights and ideas.
The workshop takes place at Atelier KANAL, Square Sainctelette 12, 1000 Brussels. Tea will be served from 16:30 and the workshop starts at 17:00. The workshops are free and in English. The workshop by Tizintizwa Collective is targeted at people of North-African and West Asian cultures or origin who are interested in archive policies. The workshop by Marwa Arsanios is intended for organisers working in the field of culture. Please fill this form to register. The cycle about Commons in West Asia and North Africa includes an event and a workshop.
This workshop is co-produced by de Appel en KANAL-Centre Pompidou.
