Afterall Journal Issue 57 “Palestine and the World” is premised on the intention to examine some of the collectives included in lumbung one and their work with the attention we deem they deserve but have not been given yet. If only three of the nine contributions in this issue directly engage with projects in lumbung one, the escalation of the attacks and destruction of Gaza since October 2023 have magnified, retrospectively and in horrific ways, the West’s resistance to, if not its attempts to suppress subaltern and Global South worldviews that had played out in Kassel. Following lumbung one’s cascading logic, this issue then branches out, on the one hand, towards further engagements with Palestinian art and visual culture as a way to fend off ongoing erasure and, on the other, towards new understandings of geographies of art practices and histories.
This issue includes contributions from Haseeb Ahmed, Janine Armin, Kegham Djeghalian Jr, Melissa Gronlund, Han Mengyun, Hazem Harb, Sung Hwan Kim, Furqat Palvan-Zade, Julian Ross, Tokyo Reels, Hanan Toukan and Xin Wang.
On the occasion of the publication of this issue, we have made four essays freely available on our website. They are Melissa Gronlund’s “Hazem Harb: ‘My Heart Is Still in Gaza’”, Kegham Djeghalian Jr’s “Unboxing Gaza”, Julian Ross’s “Tokyo Reels: The Solidarity Image” and Hanan Toukan’s “Refusing Epistemic Violence: Guernica-Gaza and the ‘German Context’”.
Afterall journal is published by Central Saint Martins, London, in editorial partnership with M HKA, Antwerp; the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, and in association with the University of Chicago Press.
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