Foundland

08/16/2022

06/17/2022

06/16/2022

Heading into the forest today hunting for special indigenous species of Jordan under the guidance of incredible self-taught botanist Deema Assaf of .co - In picture: seeds of the Rock Rose, bark of the Eastern Strawberry tree, wild asparagus at Dibeen Forest reserve. Research during summer schoo with and

05/06/2022

Straight from the 90s. Peer-To-Peer exhibition in Łódź, 2018

02/03/2022

In Keffiyah Dreams, Foundland interrogates the keffiyah pattern as a placeholder symbol for struggle movements, which may ironically defend conflicting ideologies. On the border of fashion and political statement the keffiyah represents a multitude of hopes and dreams for the Arab world. Foundland remixes and plays with icons and representations associated struggle, leadership, displacement and visions of paradise to formulate a collection of alternative keffiyah narratives.

01/26/2022

“Baby come home” 8 min video, 2017. Foundland’s interpretation of “My Boyfriend Came Back from the War” 1996, an iconic work of Russian artist Olia Lialina. Baby come home takes the narrative content of Lialina’s work as starting point and extends the idea of an estranged conversation caused by the complexity of conflict. The video work comprised of a series of chats between a mother and her radicalised son, who has left the Western world to join a Jihadi fighting force.

12/17/2021

CRACKS IN THE CRITICAL MIRROR, a conversation with Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Kevin B. Lee, and Foundland Collective.

Join us tomorrow at 10:30 am EST

Link in bio
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In this conversation, filmmakers and researchers Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Kevin B. Lee, and Ghalia Elsrakbi, and Lauren Alexander of Foundland Collective discuss an emergent crisis over the perception and interpretation of nonfiction media in contemporary online media, evidenced in their respective works.
Leftist media studies has long carried the hope for greater transparency, critical understanding and progressive activism through nonfiction media practices. Yet in the contemporary online environment, the evidentiary properties of nonfiction media have become compromised by a combination of audience fragmentation and subjectivation via greater agency over media objects. Through social media filter bubbles and increasingly sophisticated postproduction tools, the forensic gaze has become weaponized, rendering the critical reading of nonfiction images from a means to decipher reality into a means to distort it.
The presenters will discuss how their recent films — Bottled Songs, The Viewing Booth, and Real Time History — explore these phenomena from complementary and contrasting approaches. They will reflect on how they relate their own positions as media professionals and academics to the greater sphere of media production, dissemination, and discourse, and try to imagine a way out of the distorted circle of media perception, belief and truth.

12/04/2021

On Thursday the 16th December we will be in online conversation with co-founders of Design Earth Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy

An event by in collab with Tasmeem Doha 2022: Radical Futures.

Date: Thursday, December 16
Time: 11AM NYC | 4PM London | 6PM Beirut | 8PM Abu Dhabi
Hosted By: Mikey Muhanna (afikra)

Tasmeem Doha 2022 is an international, biennial art and design conference hosted and organized by VCUarts Qatar since 2004. Tasmeem Doha 2022: Radical Futures is an inclusive and multi-faceted view of the future, one that not only speculates on technological advancements—but on future threats and changes whether environmental, geographical, cultural, or social. Now more than ever, we must ask pertinent questions, raise critical dialogues, and respond with clarity.

02/23/2021

Tomorrow at 6pm CET we join Carol Huh, curator at Gallery in Washington DC for a conversation about the importance of alternative storytelling and “counter-archives” in an increasingly complex and media-saturated world. The program is offered as part of The Studio, the Freer and Sackler’s contemporary art virtual space.
Registration link in our bio 🤗

02/17/2021

Join us on the 24th of February 2021 with Carol Huh curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington DC for an hour of virtual chitchat about the importance of alternative storytelling and “counter-archives” in an increasingly complex and media-saturated world at 12 noon DC time, 6pm in Amsterdam and 7pm in Cairo and SA :) Lauren Alexander and united!

Join us for an artist talk and discussion with Foundland Collective about the importance of alternative storytelling and “counter-archives” in an increasingly complex and media-saturated world. Formed in 2009 by South African artist Lauren Alexander and Syrian artist Ghalia Elsrakbi, Foundland C...

08/11/2020

We celebrate all the incredible women, no longer with us, who have been instrumental to our projects over the last years. History lives in us!
4eva

(b. 1919) American-Lebanese archivist and researcher has shown us the value of the subjective archive which we continue in our own way.

(b.1883) Lebanese-American writer and activist’s writings show that historical struggles regarding womens rights, such as arranged marriage, are still relevant today.

, Lebanese-American singer and artist recorded Arabic pop and folk music in New York City in the 1950’s.

, Arab-American dancer and socialite

(b.1977) Syrian activist and lawyer was granted the International Women of Courage Award, before going missing from Douma in 2013. It is suspected that she has been killed.

Thank you to all the MANY women who have supported our work, in different ways - from commissioning work, to generous invitations, to collaborative support and travelling adventures! heres to more solidarity and ongoing exchange ❤️🙌🏻❤️

.noordkamp .mourad .mourad .mourad
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05/27/2020

EXTENDED FOR THIS WEEKEND! KASKcinema presents our screening programme, featuring introduction by Lauren Alexander en Ghalia Elsrakbi on invite of Eva van Tongeren

SCREENING PROGRAMME INCLUDES:

Real-Time History (Foundland Collective, 2018, 22')
https://youtu.be/ABg18bWYyGA

My Crush was a Superstar (Chloé Galibert-Laîné & Kevin B. Lee, 12’)
https://vimeo.com/423202299/74db3b5243

The Spokesman (Chloé Galibert-Laîné & Kevin B. Lee, 12’)
https://youtu.be/-ZyaYJGEyUk

The Expression of Hands (Harun Farocki, 1997, 30’)