opening hours:daily: 10am-6pm, closed on Mondays
Venue:SKD: Japanisches Palais
Palaisplatz 11
01097 Dresden
As part of the exhibition intervention "Under One Sky - Of Patterns and Other Beings", which, based on the Damascus Room, deals with implicit patterns and their use, a workshop with Qusay Awad on the topic of community building will take place on 3 November 2024. The permanent exhibition in the Japanese Palace "Dialogue among Guests" is to be expanded to include this community-building element, which is intended to bring like-minded people together in order to experience a sense of community. At the centre of this workshop is an exchange of ideas about the challenges of geographical and cultural displacement and how these divides can be overcome. The artist shares stories and lessons from his personal biography, as well as his experiences as part of and working with collectives. The filmmaker and artist Rand Abou Fakher is invited as a guest of the workshop and will show her short film "So We Live".
Qusay Awad
(born 1995, As-Suwayda, Syria) is a Berlin-based architect and multidisciplinary artist. Through installations, sculptures, sound, moving images and performances, Awad's visionary work explores and connects ideas of historical rupture, memory, displacement and community. By exploring the material, sonic and social architectures that surround us, Awad creates multi-sensory experiences that provide both artistic and social space for connection, reflection and calm.
Rand Abou Fakher
is a filmmaker and artist with a background in classical music. In 2018, she wrote and directed the short film Braided Love, which premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Her next short film, So We Live, premiered at Berlinale Shorts 2020, was selected at various international festivals and won Oscar-qualifying awards. She has been a jury member at film festivals, a mentor at film workshops and a guest speaker at prestigious events such as the Marché du Film in Cannes and the Doha Film Institute's Short Script Lab. Since 2021, she has been working as a programmer for the Toronto Arab Film Festival while completing a two-year artist residency at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels, where she expanded her multimedia practice through her ongoing research "The Act of Witnessing: Challenging Hierarchies in Crafting the Moving Image". Her feature film debut, On The Way to Forgive I Forgot Myself, is supported by the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF) and she is currently participating in the Torino Script Lab.
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