[English below]
Inicijativa za akademiju solidarnosti i epistemičke pravde poziva vas na treće u seriji predavanja i razgovora unutar projekta Konferencija o Palestini. Nakon predavanja Behzada Khosravija Noorija slijedit će projekcija njegova filma In the Dermis of History te razgovor s publikom.
*Predavanje će se održati na engleskom jeziku.
12+3 days of writing. Mowing the Grass: The Epistemic Violence and the Enemy of My Enemy (12+3 dana pisanja. Kositi travnjak: Epistemičko nasilje i neprijatelj moga neprijatelja)
Predavanje se temelji na Khosravi Noorijevom tekstu koji je nastao kroz promišljanje i sagledavanje te kroz borbu za artikulacijom govora o dvanaestodnevnom ratu između Izraela i Irana. Autor inzistira na tezi da se nasilje imperijalnih i kolonijalnih sila i represija domaćih režima međusobno ne poništavaju. Umjesto toga, oni konvergiraju u svojem uzajamnom poricanju dostojanstva, pamćenja i budućnosti. Behzad promišlja iz rane, a ne za ruku koja ranjava, držeći se uvjerenja da “neprijatelj moga neprijatelja” nije moj prijatelj, već ostaje moj neprijatelj.
In the Dermis of History (U potkožju povijesti) – Behzad Khosravi Noori, 2017-2021; 21:59 min
Alegorijska skulptura od bronze i cementa smještena je na raskrižju ulice Felestin (Palestina), u centru velikog kružnog toka. Kompozicija od nekoliko figura, od kojih jedna podiže šaku u gestu prkosa, spomenik je palestinskoj borbi, odnosno Prvoj intifadi koja je trajala od prosinca 1987. do Madridske konferencije 1991. Upravo je u tom razdoblju spomenik nastajao: od 1989. do inauguracije 1990. godine. Bio je to prvi javni spomenik izgrađen u postrevolucionarnom Teheranu.
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Behzad Khosravi Noori je umjetnik, pisac i edukator koji se u svojoj istraživačkoj praksi koristi filmom, instalacijom i arhivskim studijama za istraživanje sjecišta osobnog pamćenja i značajnih svjetskih događaja, kako bi ispitao načine na koje priče i sjećanja prelaze granice i stvaraju veze između mikro i makro povijesti.
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[English version]
The Initiative for the Academy of Solidarity and Epistemic Justice (IzASEP) invites you to the third in a series of lectures and discussions as part of the Conference on Palestine. Behzad Khosravi Noori’s lecture will be followed by a screening of his film In the Dermis of History and a discussion.
* The lecture will be held in English.
12+3 days of writing. Mowing the Grass: The Epistemic Violence and the Enemy of My Enemy
The lecture is based on Khosravi Noori’s recent text, which emerged as a reflection, an observation, and a struggle to find language for the twelve-day war between Israel and Iran. The author insists that the violence of imperial and colonial powers and the repression of domestic regimes do not cancel each other out. Instead, they converge in their mutual denial of dignity, memory, and future. Behzad thinks from the wound, not for the wounding hand, holding to the conviction that “the enemy of my enemy” is not my friend, but remains my enemy.
In the Dermis of History – Behzad Khosravi Noori, 2017-2021; 21:59 min
An allegorical bronze-and-cement sculpture stands at the intersection of Felestin (Palestine) Street, in the centre of a large roundabout. Featuring several figures, one with a fist raised in a gesture of defiance, the work serves as a monument to the Palestinian struggle, particularly the First Intifada. It lasted from December 1987 until the Madrid Conference in 1991, and it was precisely during this period that construction of the monument took place, from 1989 until its inauguration in 1990. The sculpture was the first public monument ever built in post-revolutionary Tehran.
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Behzad Khosravi Noori is an artist, writer, and educator whose research-based practice uses films, installations, and archival studies to explore the intersection of personal memory and significant world events, to examine how stories and memories cross borders and create connections between micro and macro histories.
