Talks
Dr. Hadas Kedar
The Curatorial and the Dessert
25 October 2024, 6pm
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Focusing on the Negev desert in the south of Israel, the lecture demonstrates how by considering the people but also the architectural qualities, the traditions, rituals, artistic expressions, flora and fauna that populate the xeriscape our understanding of the desert as both a physical and political terrain becomes rich, complex and multi layered. The desert serves as a backdrop, one that is both a geological phenomenon and mythological creation, to interrogate what, in our imagination, is many times considered an empty site with no cultural value.
Dr. Hadas Kedar is an artist and curator and the founder of Arad Contemporary Art Centre and Arad Art and Architecture Residency Program. Recently she works in cooperation with Bedouins.Caption: Rehearsals in the courtyard of KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, August 2023, for ‘I Know What to Do,’ performance by Sunny Pfalzer in collaboration with Lau Lukkarila and Slim Soleded, Music by Marshall Vincent. As part of the performative Gathering Voice Over #2, curated by Maayan Sheleff for the KW.
This event was part of Let’s Talk About… Anti-Democratic, Anti-Queer, Misogynist, Antisemitic, Right Wing Spaces and Their Counter Movements project.