Maps have been extensively used to tell stories and to show how the stories relate to a place. Equally, narratives have contributed to the shaping and production of a place. How do we make sense of a place that we no longer can visit? What places do we remember and long for? What narratives live…
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Syrian artists Khaled Barakeh and Diala Brisly will discuss their artistic practices and processes, what it means to create within contexts of oppression and exile; physically dispersed yet under a shared collective experience. They will also discuss contemporary artistic expression by other Syrian artists in the Middle East, across the diaspora and from those who…
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SPACE and Mela invite you to a special concert with the internationally-acclaimed percussionist Simona Abdallah concluding The Question of Syria – Doomed by Hope conference. Simona plays Arabic percussion, primarily the Darbuka, a goblet-shaped drum. She fuses her ancestral Arabic rhythms with House, Electronica and World music. The Darbuka is considered solely a masculine instrument,…
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For the fourth year in a row, SPACE welcomes you to the annual conference The Question of Syria. During two days of talks, panel discussions and short film screenings, activists, academics, artists and writers will share their reflections on everyday hope as practiced and lived by ordinary people with focus on Syrians and Palestinians. The…
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SPACE is delighted to invite you to its first reading circle in Oslo! WHAT IS A SPACE READING CIRCLE? The concept is simple: we come together for an hour and a half to have an open discussion on a specific topic. We suggest a couple of articles to read beforehand which can serve as input…
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SPACE has been working since early 2015 to diversify and enrich the discussion about Syria, primarily through giving space to many underrepresented Syrian voices, broadening the set of questions and topics normally associated with Syria and emphasizing the role of democratic actors among the Syrian civil society and intellectual sphere. Looking at the past three…
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Syrian Doc Days – Oslo What Syria Was and What it Must Not Be In this first ever Syrian Doc Days in Oslo we will take a deep look into the Syrian society under the authoritarian rule of the Baath party and the Assad regime. Through documentary films and discussions we will examine the relationship…
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Thus prison is time you mark the first days on walls the following months on memory but when the years become a long train tired of whistling despairing of a station you try something else: forgetting – Excerpts from Mirrors of Absence by Faraj Bayrakdar With his short verses, the award-winning poet and uncompromising dissident…
Details– Jeg snakket om en «offentlig komfortsone». I Syria hadde vi aldri det. Vi var trygge i våre egne hjem. Men i 2011, da folk gikk ut i gatene og protesterte, var det første gang jeg så at det var mulig å kreve tilbake det offentlige rom. Vi kunne fylle en stor offentlig plass eller…
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“When Time Is All You Have Left” explores how synchronization and translation mediate our experience of lost time as a temporality of migration. Lost time is an experience that is central to the dissonance felt in the shift from familiar rhythms to the mastery of new temporalities that we struggle to participate in shaping. This…
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