I was invited by the October Gallery to give a presentation on Palestinian art during their workshop “Face to Face: Visual Cultures and Radical Distrust in the Middle East”, in February 2012.

I chose to give my presentation on the rather complex but essential subject “How Palestinian artists deal with the bankrupt ideal of the Palestinian nation-state and their condition as stateless global citizens?”.

Here‘s the link to the (lo-res) pdf version of the Powerpoint. The pdf of course doesn’t reproduce the gimmicks and links to film and sound of the original presentation, notably Tashweesh’s amazing clip (linked here) which is also a favourite in the seminars I teach at the Paris School of International Affairs.