PALESTINE/ RACISM + ART
ARTSHOW OPENING TIMES
Opening: Sunday 18th January 5pm - 9pm
FREE ENTRANCE
LOCATION: BRIXTON MARKET HOUSE, 443 COLDHARBOUR LANE, LONDON SW9 8LN
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ARTWORK BY 25 DIFFERENT ARTISTS, THANKS TO PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
TALKS ABOUT ART, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND PALESTINE BY: ZITA HOLBORNE, GIL MUALEM DORON, GABRIELLA IBBA, PATRIZIA CECCONI, LYDIA COHEN AND ihtgw. THERE WILL BE A Q&A SESSION.
Palestine, Israel, Jerusalem, the so-called Holy Land. There is a central role played by these points in space, time and class, in the Capitalist imagination . It was here that the mythical anti-capitalist act of Jesus overturning the money lenders tables took place. It was here that the Knights Templar and the Ismaili Hashashin Sufis formulated the foundations of modern day Banking system. It is here that prophesy was fulfilled in 1946 with the foundation of Israel, the return of Christ and beginning of the end of the Age of Divinity.
And so the evictions, the bombings, the massacres in and around Gaza, that became a world wide Spectacle last year, serve not only to push humanity back into the age of divinity and into Hell, but also serve as a metaphor for the oppression of the working class in general. The specific racism of the Israeli state against Palestinians has its roots in the anti-Semitism and racism that were exported from Europe, as sell as in extremist Jewish religious supremacy sentiments. It can also be taken as a metaphor for the racism of the British state against former slave colonies in Africa and India and beyond. It can also be taken as a metaphor for the patriarchy along with racism lays the psychic foundations for capitalism.
And so the national struggle of Palestine against Israel is for us manifest wherever we face Capitalism as an occupying force in our lives. In Brixton, the uprisings of the working class 1981, 1985, 1991, 2011 - all point towards the same structure of oppression engendered in Palestine - that of the destructive workers being pitted against the reproductive workers and the productive workers. Revolution must be all or nothing. It is the supercession of all nations, all workers and all ages, beginning in the here and now.
By DAMTP
ARTISTS:
Khaled Alsenan
Caroline Halliday
Lydia Cohen
Gil Mualem Doron
Phoebe Eustance
Sandra Gama
Eldar Gantz
Lewis Garland
Zita Holbourne
Art by Laila Kassab - Gaza
Bjørk Grue Lidin
Julia Maddison
Celia Martin
Ros Meadow
Aliya Nazli
John D Perkins
Dee Sada
Isra Shaheen
Skin Skinner
Joy Stacey
DAMTP
ihtgw
