‘What is Morally Wrong with ‘Blasphemy’? On the Claim to be Protected Against Blasphemous’ Acts of Expression in Pluralistic societies’

Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia is the first comprehensive exhibition of Attia’s work in the Netherlands, taking place at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht.

The second gathering of Fragments of Repair/Gatherings consists of a screening of artist Kader Attia’s work The Body’s Legacies, Part 2: The Postcolonial Body (video, 2018, 48 min.), followed by a conversation between Olivier Marboeuf (writer, critic, and curator, Paris) and Ruth Wilson Gilmore (abolitionist scholar and activist, Lisbon).

Fragments of Repair/Gatherings involves an online series of lectures, conversations, screenings, and assembly forums convened by BAK around the theory and practice of repair.

Throughout the duration of the project Fragments of Repair, Kader Attia engages in creating a new eponymous work in the form of a gradually unfolding podcast and sound installation in twelve parts, titled Repair & Listen. Drawing on transcultural epistemologies and lived experiences, the podcast investigates “repair” as a concrete practice to counter the psychological impact of living through a pandemic. The episodes of the podcast will become available on this page, throughout the duration of Fragments of Repair.