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Are reparations possible in a world still stealing?
EGYPT. Al Nazla. August 20, 2013. A local resident stands at the entrance to the Virgin Mary church in the village of Al Nazla, about 120KM outside of Cairo. The church was burned and looted by an alleged mob of pro-Muslim Brotherhood residents of the village. Photo: Moises Saman
While museums debate returning artefacts, coltan mines fuel wars in the Congo. While conferences discuss postcolonial reparations, Sudan’s gold finances its own destruction. Ibrahim Mahama’s “reverse restitution” asks us to look at the empire’s ruins - but what about the ruins being made right now? Join Hekayyatna for an evening exploring what justice, repair, and restitution mean when extraction never stopped, when the Global Majority is still being colonised, and when tomorrow’s debts are being written in today’s conflicts.
Doors open at 5.30pm; talks starts at 6pm and finishes at 7.30pm.
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Architectural Association
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This event considers drawings which are contested rather than resolved. A boundary redrawn by two parties; a survey read differently depending on who's measuring; a deed whose line was never quite where the wall is.
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Nieuwe Instituut
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How are the spaces in which justice is discussed, negotiated and delivered shaped by architecture, ritual and performance? How can artistic practice help us to rethink the systems and institutions through which justice and collective decision-making are produced?
Nieuwe Instituut