The Commons
Marwa Arsanios
In this podcast, Lebanese artist, researcher, and filmmaker Marwa Arsanios unpacks the many conversational tactics embedded in her modes of working in the gaps between art and activism, in the intersection between ecological thinking, land struggles, and feminist politics. We talk about reading groups, the film object, solidarity as a practice, and using the art economy to bring communities and movements together.
Philip Rizk
Philip Rizk is a filmmaker and writer whose work explores themes of power, resistance, and memory, particularly in the context of social and political movements in Egypt, Syria, Palestine and beyond, in a process he describes as “putting struggles into conversation with each other”. In this podcast, we speak with Rizk about the past and present of his practice, about imagined scenarios, and about the impossibility of working with images in today’s world. We discuss autonomy, musha' or land commons, re-enactments, and improvisation as a form of response to imposed order.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with artist, researcher and essayist Cornelia Sollfrank. Here she reflects on the social experiment of cyberfeminism and the early days of net art, as well as on aesthetics of the commons and the copyright system, probing how notions of originality, intellectual property, and collective practice shape contemporary art. By revisiting feminist performance histories and examining the affective infrastructures of digital culture, her work articulates a techno-feminist perspective that unsettles conventional discourses on art, law, and power.