kimi malka hanauer is an artist, publisher, and writer based on lenape land (brooklyn, ny).
there / is / only / now (tomorrow is cancelled)
video, performance, and print-based installation | Whitney Independent Study Program (WISP), Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY, 2024
My current research draws on scholars such as Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Ella Shohat, Edward Said, and Mahmoud Darwish, to trace my familial lineages in pre-partition Jerusalem, Palestine and al-Andalus/Sefarad as vehicles of intervention into imperial and colonial imaginaires and the fields of power they enact in our everyday lives. In attempting to potentialize personal and collective histories of antagonism, non-cooperation, and rebellion, this ongoing project prompts an unstable study of the formation and disintegration of intercommunal coalitions. In this iteration of the ongoing project, I use print-based and sculptural interventions to appropriate and reset the terms of capitalist infrastructure toward the building of autonomous modes of collective life in the present.
My recent article, an everyday archive of time stolen back, further expands on the themes of this work.
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