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Fellow 2017/2018

Isshaq Al-Barbary (Campus in Camps)

Campus in Camps is an educational program that activates collective critical learning environments in Palestinian refugee camps. Founded in 2012 and active within four camps in the West Bank, it is a space for the production of knowledge grounded in the lived experience of its communities. Participant-run courses incorporate collaborations with local and international universities. In 2016, Campus in Camps took part in the Here We Are Academy, part of the project Unstated (or, Living Without Approval) at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.

Isshaq Al-Barbary (Campus in Camps)

Campus in Camps is an educational program that activates collective critical learning environments in Palestinian refugee camps. Founded in 2012 and active within four camps in the West Bank, it is a space for the production of knowledge grounded in the lived experience of its communities. Participant-run courses incorporate collaborations with local and international universities. In 2016, Campus in Camps took part in the Here We Are Academy, part of the project Unstated (or, Living Without Approval) at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.

Fellowship Research Trajectory

Isshaq Al-Barbary and Diego Segatto (members of Campus in Camps) explore a communal learning environment through Al Maeishah, which assembles participants with diverse knowledge and experience. Employing the Arabic term for a shared home space, Al Maeishah is conceived around hospitality, the common, and the question(ing) of the nation state. It works as a long-term journey, an experimental and itinerant process, and an investigative praxis that can be replicated, scaled, and tailored as a creative process in fieri.

Online at: viewalmaisha.org

BAK Fellows in MaHKU Graduation Show: If Not Now

Several generations of Fellows are involved in this year’s MaHKU, Utrecht, graduation show If Not Now, taking place at BAK from 30 September–11 October 2020. One BAK 2020 Fellowship position has been awarded to the Mutual Support Platform (MSP), a space for conversations and actions by/between/for students, alumni, and teachers of the MAFA HKU, Utrecht. […]

How to Assemble Now (BAK Public Studies)

BAK 2017/2018 Fellow Isshaq Al-Barbary and 2019/2020 Fellow Joy Mariama Smith are among the contributors to BAK’s Public Studies Program How to Assemble Now, taking place In August and September 2020.   Read more about the program here.

Collective Dictionary: Inhabiting

Inhabiting is an outcome of the collaboration between Al Maeishah (Isshaq Al-Babrbary, Elena Isayev, and Diego Segatto) and the Office of Displaced Designers (ODD), who invited Al Maeishah to implement their research on The Alternative Atlas of Lesvos: An Island for the World. The atlas aims to intersect with those forcibly displaced, with the global web […]

Collective Dictionary: Xenia with Elena Isayev

Elena Isayev is a historian and professor at University of Exeter uses the ancient Mediterranean to explore migration, belonging, displacement and spatial perception. Her research is based on the intersection of Hospitality and Asylum, Potency of Displaced Agency, Common and Public Space. Her interdisciplinary and inter-practice approach has led to collective learning and research beyond the […]

Collective Dictionary: Political

In April 2016, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, brought to life the Here We Are Academy: a spirited temporary recomposition of a refugee-initiated platform for learning called We Are Here Academy. Established in Amsterdam in 2012, We Are Here is the first large-scale organization of refugees living in limbo in the Netherlands. Through projects organized […]

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