A Strike In Anger

Translation / Interpretation / Caption Text

Arabic translation:

Day of Rage/General Strike

Friday

May 12

Throughout Palestine

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This work was produced as part of For the Unsettled World to Come, an intervention by Bilna’es with Yara Abbas, Nora Akawi, and Fawz Kabra. The project gathers illustrations and artworks made in the summer of 2021, during a period of mass rebellion in Palestine and abroad. As one of twenty-three posters in the series, these works call to globalize the intifada, making the Palestinian uprising one for all people struggling against entangled systems of oppression and dispossession. Read more

Fana’ is a collective based in Ramallah, Palestine. The name comes from multiple roots in the Arabic language, one being the annihilation of the self or the re-birth of the new self in Sufism. We aim to deconstruct and deproduce truth in social, philosophical and cultural activity. We wish to uncover the processes in which ‘things’ are created or uncreated rather than only posing the end product of these ‘things’.

Source:

https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/58911/

 

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Analysis / Interpretation / Press / Source

For the Unsettled World to Come
Organized by Bilna'es
 

This project gathers illustrations and artworks made in the summer of 2021, during a period of mass rebellion in Palestine and abroad. Produced as twenty-three posters, these works call to globalize the intifada, making the Palestinian uprising one for all people struggling against entangled systems of oppression and dispossession.

Mobilizing networks of solidarity and resistance, these artworks have been shared, hashtagged, and circulated globally in the fight against oppression and colonialism. The artists included are from Palestine and beyond, with each contribution amplifying the Palestinian resistance to displacement and the ongoing struggles within occupied and divided lands.

With contributions by: BLKMOODYBOI, The International Imagination of Anti-National Anti-Imperialist Feelings, Haneen Nazzal, Darina Jabr, Golrokh Nafisi, lena siksik, Lamia Abukhadra, Haitham Haddad - Studio MNJNK, Mooni Studio, Fana’ Collective, Data for Black Lives (designed by Studio 45 Turbo), June LS, Haitham Ennasr, Layan Attari, MaryAnn Jaraisy, Samir Harb, Wendy Elisheva Somerson.

This intervention was put together by Bilna’es (‘in the negative’ in Arabic) with Yara Abbas, Nora Akawi, and Fawz Kabra. Bilna’es is an adisciplinary publishing platform that supports artists in Palestine and beyond. — bilnaes.com

Posters will be on view in the Printed Matter storefront window beginning October 20, and are available for purchase in limited quantities. Proceeds from sales will be donated to alQaws, a Palestinian grassroots organization advocating for LGBTQ communities and sexual & gender diversity in Palestinian society. Retail is $20 each.

Works are digitally printed and measure 14.25" x 20.25” each, with the exception of the poster by June LS, which is risograph-printed and measures 11" x 17.” Note that web orders will be shipped rolled.

*The title of this project is borrowed from Lamia Abukhadra’s For the Unsettled World to Come (2021)

Source:

https://www.printedmatter.org/fortheunsettledworldtocome