Art, Visual Culture and the Israeli Occupation
A one-day interdisciplinary conference focusing on how artists and other visual practitioners have
represented the Israeli occupation, and exploring relationships between visual culture and the
politics of space in Israel/Palestine.
The conference will discuss the ways in which artists, photographers, and visual activists have
produced images of different aspects of the occupation, or used visual practices to contest the
domination of the Palestinians by the Israeli state. Speakers will also address how visual
technologies and ‘ways of seeing’ have been structural to the occupation and the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict.
Saturday 10 May 2008
10.00am – 5.00pm
Lecture Theatre 303
3rd Floor Chatham Building
Faculty of Art and Design
All Saints Campus
Manchester Metropolitan University
Map: www.mmu.ac.uk/about/locations/allsaints
The conference accompanies the first UK showing of the exhibition ‘Desert Generation: 40 Years
of Occupation, 1967-2007. Israeli and Palestinian Artists Against the Occupation and for a Just
Peace’.
Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University
Opening 6pm Thurs 10 April continues Mon to Fri 10am to 4pm until Wed 14 May
www.holdengallery.mmu.ac.uk/desertgeneration.php
Speakers
Larry Abramson, Jerusalem based artist/Shenkar College, ‘Art of Camouflage: The Covert Politics
of Abstraction in Israeli Visual Culture’
Sliman Mansour, Jerusalem based artist, ‘Palestinian Art and the Occupation’
Wendy Pullan, University of Cambridge, ‘Images and Artefacts of Boundedness and Mobility in
Contested Jerusalem’
Anna Dezeuze, University of Manchester, ‘Lines, Walls and the Politics of “Ambiguity”’
Simon Faulkner, Manchester Metropolitan University, ‘Picturing the West Bank Wall’
The conference includes a tour of the ‘Desert Generation’ exhibition led by Larry Abramson.
Tickets: £25/£10 students
Cheques to be made out to: Manchester Metropolitan University
To reserve a place or for further information contact: [log in to unmask]
Or go to: www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/visualculture/locationmemory/occupation/
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