Jumana Manna: Preservation Paradox
Thursday, April 27, 2023 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm CET/GMT+1P98a Lecture Hall
An Artist's Talk
In her talk, Jumana Manna will speak about her dual practice as a sculptor and a filmmaker, and her ongoing inquiries into the contradictions of preservation and ruination. Manna will focus on her recent film, Foragers, which depicts the criminalization of Palestinian plant foraging traditions. The film challenges the logic of extinction debates under settler-colonial and neoliberal regimes, namely the hierarchies of who determines what is made extinct and what gets to live on. Considering the interdependence of plant and human life, in ecological time and within the moving image, Manna will look at how art forms partake in the refusal of attempted erasures, and can instead re-ground and recode meaning and matter.
The Artist Talk is organized by the OSUN course AR330: Global Visual Politics. This event is made possible with the support of the Open Society University Network's Visual Politics Project.
Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her interdisciplinary practice focuses on infrastructures, body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. She was raised in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin. Manna has participated in group exhibitions and festivals, including FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial (2022); Manifesta 14, Prishtina (2022); Toronto Biennial of Art (2022; 2019); 11th Taipei Biennial (2018); Nordic Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale (2017); Liverpool Biennial (2016); Marrakech Biennale 6 (2016); 54th and 56th Vienna International Film Festivals (2016 and 2018); 66th and 68th Berlinale (2016 and 2018); and CPH:DOX, Copenhagen (2018), IDFA (2021 and 2022) RIDM, Camden Film Festival, Maine and Open City Film Festival, London (2022).