Where are the Oases?
PEI OBERT seminar
with Kader Attia, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Emily Jacir, Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall and Françoise Vergès
An oasis is the potential for life in an adverse environment.
To ask Where are the Oases? also means to ask: Which spaces can be claimed as our own? What do the times of the commons look like? What modes of resistance are needed and desired? What forms of conviviality arise if we move forward as if the society we dream of is already in place? The search for the oases also means to create spaces and practices that rise up against the processes of desertification of life on this earth. It means to forge space-times of reparation and multiply the remains of an inhabitable earth.
Faced with these issues and taking them as the starting point for this ninth edition of PEI, the seminar aims to explore diverse configurations of emancipatory space-times, intersections of decolonial practice and thought. Spaces of critical resistance in the field of art and beyond, collective agencies that constitute true oases for knowledge sharing, methodologies and political tools for the worlds we inhabit. A diversity of life stories and experiences that, together with other forms of knowledge at work to create space-times of hospitality.
Related activities
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–Van Abbemuseum
The Soils Project
‘The Soils Project’ is part of an eponymous, long-term research initiative involving TarraWarra Museum of Art (Wurundjeri Country, Australia), the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Struggles for Sovereignty, a collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It works through specific and situated practices that consider soil, as both metaphor and matter.
Seeking and facilitating opportunities to listen to diverse voices and perspectives around notions of caring for land, soil and sovereign territories, the project has been in development since 2018. An international collaboration between three organisations, and several artists, curators, writers and activists, it has manifested in various iterations over several years. The group exhibition ‘Soils’ at the Van Abbemuseum is part of Museum of the Commons. -
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Kyiv Biennial 2023
L’Internationale Confederation is a proud partner of this year’s edition of Kyiv Biennial.
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–MACBA
The Open Kitchen. The fermented seed, colonialism and extractivism
The MACBA Kitchen is a working group situated against the backdrop of ecosocial crisis. Participants in the group aim to highlight the importance of intuitively imagining an ecofeminist kitchen, and take a particular interest in the wisdom of individuals, projects and experiences that work with dislocated knowledge in relation to food sovereignty.
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MACBA
The Kitchen: Workshop by Marina Monsonís
The Kitchen is a meeting place open to the participation of all, especially people and organizations that want to share their knowledge and experiences around the kitchen.
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Multicultural Youth Center
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, together with the confederation of museums L'Internationale, is establishing a Multicultural Youth Center. This is a unique space for 16-24 year olds to explore and develop their creativity, make new friends and hang out in a friendly and supportive environment.
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–MACBA
Where are the Oases?
PEI OBERT seminar
with Kader Attia, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Emily Jacir, Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall and Françoise VergèsAn oasis is the potential for life in an adverse environment.
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MACBA
Mobile Garden. A Place to Meet
An open space, a social space. How could the Museum be more open to the needs of the neighbourhood?
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MACBA
Anti-imperialism in the 20th century and anti-imperialism today: similarities and differences
PEI OBERT seminar
Lecture by Ramón GrosfoguelIn 1956, countries that were fighting colonialism by freeing themselves from both capitalism and communism dreamed of a third path, one that did not align with or bend to the politics dictated by Washington or Moscow. They held their first conference in Bandung, Indonesia.
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Museo Reina Sofia
School of Commoning Practices
This exchange programme gathers different schools organized by volunteers and migrant communities in Athens (Open School for Migrants) and Madrid (School of Rights, Escuela de Español and Situated mediation School) in order to share their knowledge, exchange strategies and reflect on the experience of working together with migrant communities.
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Institute of Radical ImaginationMuseo Reina Sofia
Cinema as Assembly
Cinema as Assembly investigates cinema as a space of social gathering and political engagement that prefigures and enacts forms of living beyond colonial capitalism.
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–Museo Reina Sofia
Team of Teams
This project researches citizen participation as a fundamental pillar in the creation of community.
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–Museo Reina Sofia
Sustainable Art Production
The Studies Center of Museo Reina Sofía will publish an open call for 4 residencies of artistic practice for projects that address the emergencies and challenges derived from the climate crisis such as food sovereignty, architecture and sustainability, communal practices, diasporas and exiles or ecological and political sustainability, among others.
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–Van Abbemuseum
Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School
Recalling Earth: Decoloniality and Demodernity
Course Directors: Prof. Walter Mignolo & Dr. Rolando VázquezRecalling Earth and learning worlds and worlds-making will be the topic of chapter 14th of the María Lugones Summer School that will take place at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
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M HKA
SUPERHOST | Club Antena. Intimate listening and dancing experience
with Nele Möller, Farida Amadou, Le Réalism, Céline Gillain, Roberta Miss, Elena Colombi
CLUB ANTENA is an intimate listening and dancing session with a lecture, concert, performance, catering and DJ sets, exploring what it means to listen with our bodies.
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Institute of Radical ImaginationMSU Zagreb
Red, Green, Black and White
A performative inquiry by Institute of Radical Imagination and MSU Zagreb
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HKW
Tongue and Throat Memories
On hospitality and conviviality through food
Knowledges and convenings
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Archive of the Conceptual Art of Odesa in the 1980s
The research project turns to the beginning of 1980s, when conceptual art circle emerged in Odesa, Ukraine. Artists worked independently and in collaborations creating the first examples of performances, paradoxical objects and drawings.
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–Moderna galerijaZRC SAZU
Summer School: Our Many Easts
Our Many Easts summer school is organised by Moderna galerija in Ljubljana in partnership with ZRC SAZU (the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) as part of the L’Internationale project Museum of the Commons.
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–Moderna galerijaZRC SAZU
Open Call – Summer School: Our Many Easts
Our Many Easts summer school takes place in Ljubljana 24–30 August and the application deadline is 15 March. Courses will be held in English and cover topics such as the legacy of the Eastern European avant-gardes, archives as tools of emancipation, the new “non-aligned” networks, art in times of conflict and war, ecology and the environment.
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–MACBA
Song for Many Movements: Scenes of Collective Creation
An ephemeral experiment in which the ground floor of MACBA becomes a stage for encounters, conversations and shared listening.
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Museo Reina Sofia
Palestine Is Everywhere
‘Palestine Is Everywhere’ is an encounter and screening at Museo Reina Sofía organised together with Cinema as Assembly as part of Museum of the Commons. The conference starts at 18:30 pm (CET) and will also be streamed on the online platform linked below.
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–MACBA
Before We Go Down in History (we have to make a living) I. Class Composition
Two-day seminar organised by MACBA as part of Museum of the Commons and the year-long project ‘[contra]panorama’.
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MACBA
The Open Kitchen. Map of edible tensions
with Marina Monsonís, Paisanaje and Ruralitzem
The MACBA Kitchen is a working group situated against the backdrop of ecosocial crisis. Participants in the group aim to highlight the importance of intuitively imagining an ecofeminist kitchen, and take a particular interest in the wisdom of individuals, projects and experiences that work with dislocated knowledge in relation to food sovereignty.
Related contributions and publications
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…and the Earth along. Tales about the making, remaking and unmaking of the world.
Martin Pogačar... and the Earth alongClimatePast in the Present -
The Kitchen, an Introduction to Subversive Film with Nick Aikens, Reem Shilleh and Mohanad Yaqubi
Nick Aikens, Subversive FilmlumbungPast in the PresentVan Abbemuseum -
The Repressive Tendency within the European Public Sphere
Ovidiu ŢichindeleanuTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Troubles with the East(s)
Bojana PiškurTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Right now, today, we must say that Palestine is the centre of the world
Françoise VergèsTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Body Counts, Balancing Acts and the Performativity of Statements
Mick WilsonTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Until Liberation I: Learning Palestine
Learning Palestine GroupTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Until Liberation II: Learning Palestine
Learning Palestine GroupTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Lumbung practices to resist and collaborate through art
Constanza Yévenes BiénzobaslumbungSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina SofiaEN es -
Some Guiding Terms for Lumbung Press: Defining “publishing”
Erick BeltránlumbungSituated OrganizationsMACBAEN es -
In the Battles of Language / En las batallas del lenguaje
Marina Garcés, Silvia Rivera CusicanquiDialoguesMACBA -
Evidence, Activism And The Law in the Age of Post-Truth
Baltasar Garzón, Eyal Weizman, Yolanda Álvarez, Manuel VergaraDialoguesMACBA -
THE MUSEUM YET TO COME. Exercises of institutional imagination
Pablo MartínezHDK-ValandMACBA -
L’Internationale Public Statement on the recent events at MACBA
L’Internationale ConfederationStatements and editorialsMACBA -
L'Internationale statement in support of the decision to open "La Bestia y el soberano" (The Beast and the Sovereign)
L’Internationale ConfederationStatements and editorialsMACBA -
The Veil of Peace
Ovidiu ŢichindeleanuPast in the Presenttranzit.ro -
On Riots, Grief and Parties
MACBA -
Diaspora. Art Stories from Barcelona
Tania Safura Adam, Aldemar MatiasMACBA -
Editörlerden: Acil Durum Zamanlarında Kolektif Çalışmaya Doğru
L’Internationale Online Editorial BoardTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyStatements and editorialsPast in the PresentEN es sl tr ar -
Hard Gelatin. Hidden Stories from the 80s
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Song for Many Movements. Opening Performance Live on Radio Alhara
Jokkoo with/con Miramizu, Rasheed Jalloul & Sabine SalaméTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencySonic CommonsPast in the PresentMACBAEN es -
We Have Been Here Forever. Palestinian Poets Write Back
Rana IssaTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Discomfort at Dinner: The role of food work in challenging empire
Mary FawzyRecette. Reset. Recipes in and Beyond the InstitutionSituated Organizations -
Indra's Web
Vandana Singh... and the Earth alongPast in the PresentClimateZRC SAZU -
Mix tape: Let's Funk Up All Genders!
Materia Hache / Others to the FrontSonic CommonsSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina SofiaEN es -
Diary of a Crossing
Baqiya and Yu’adTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Towards Collective Learning, or, Decompartmentalizing Education
María Berríos, Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Nick AikensSituated Organizations -
The Silence Has Been Unfolding For Too Long
The Free Palestine Initiative CroatiaTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the PresentSituated OrganizationsInstitute of Radical ImaginationMSU Zagreb -
Everything will stay the same if we don’t speak up
L’Internationale ConfederationTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyStatements and editorialsPast in the PresentSituated OrganizationsEN ca -
Reading list: School of Common Knowledge 2024
School of Common KnowledgeSchool of Common KnowledgeSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
War, Peace and Image Politics: Part 1, Who Has a Right to These Images?
Jelena VesićPast in the PresentZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: Notes on Separation and Conviviality
Raluca PopaSituated Organizationstranzit.ro -
To Build an Ecological Art Institution: The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Raluca VoineaArt for Radical Ecologies ManifestoClimateSituated Organizationstranzit.ro -
Live set: A Love Letter to the Global Intifada
PrecolombianTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencySonic CommonsPast in the PresentMACBAEN es -
Dispatch: In between the lessons. Staying together in uncertain times, laughing in the face of trouble, and disobeying; the future belongs to us
Antonela SoleničkiSchool of Common KnowledgeSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: The Commonsverse and Situated Organisations – or why the era of big institutions will come to an end
Denise PolliniSchool of Common KnowledgeSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: A Buriti Tree
Lucas PrettiSchool of Common KnowledgeMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZUSituated Organizations -
Cultivating Abundance
Åsa SonjasdotterThe Climate ForumClimatePast in the PresentHDK-Valand -
Naming a Collective Cause in a Foreign Land
Dagmary Olívar Graterol, Paola de la Vega VelasteguiSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina SofiaEN es -
Dispatch: To whom it may concern – the voice of the censor and re-calibrating words as an act of survival
AnonymousSchool of Common KnowledgeSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Rethinking Comradeship from a Feminist Position
Leonida KovačSchool of Common KnowledgeSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Reading list - Summer School: Our Many Easts
Summer School - Our Many EastsPast in the PresentModerna galerija -
The Genocide War on Gaza: Palestinian Culture and the Existential Struggle
Rana AnaniTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Eating clay is not an eating disorder
Zayaan KhanThe Climate ForumRecette. Reset. Recipes in and Beyond the InstitutionClimatePast in the Present -
Dispatch: ‘I don't believe in revolution, but sometimes I get in the spirit.’
Megan HoetgerPast in the Present -
Dispatch: Notes on (de)growth from the fragments of Yugoslavia's former alliances
Ava ZevopPast in the Present -
Forget ‘never again’, it’s always already war
Martin PogačarTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the PresentZRC SAZU -
Editorial: Cinema as Assembly
Nick Aikens, Massimiliano MollonaCinema as AssemblyPast in the Present -
Bibliography: Cinema as Assembly
Massimiliano MollonaCinema as AssemblyPast in the Present -
Filmography: Cinema as Assembly
Massimiliano MollonaCinema as AssemblyPast in the Present -
Cinema as Assembly: Planetary Struggles, Planetary Cinema
Massimiliano MollonaCinema as AssemblyPast in the Present -
Beyond Distorted Realities: Palestine, Magical Realism and Climate Fiction
Sanabel Abdel RahmanTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the PresentClimate -
Collective Study in Times of Emergency. A Roundtable
Nick Aikens, Sara Buraya Boned, Charles Esche, Martin Pogačar, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Ezgi YurteriTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the PresentSituated Organizations