Shayma Nader — Writing an afterlife
... an image, a backdrop, a memory, an overlay, a map, a field, a testimony, a fragment, a document, a residue, a trace, a land ...
This writing workshop invites participants to write from within conditions where land is not simply a backdrop, but a site of transformation, interruption, and persistence.
Through individual and collective exercises, we will approach writing as a practice attuned to what remains present when places are altered beyond recognition, and to what continues to return in fragments, residues, and traces. Working with archival fragments: an image, a map, a testimony, a document, or a memory, we will attend to how land is reconfigured, how fields become grids, villages become coordinates, environments reshaped by infrastructures that impose new rhythms onto us and the ground.
We will write of landscapes where technologies of control have become embedded in the terrain itself, where the horizon is interrupted, where aerial presence is constant, where the language of renewal overlays histories of removal. Attuning to what persists beneath and alongside these transformations, participants are invited to focus on what the land holds, what it refuses, and what continues to exceed capture.
about
Shayma Nader is a Palestinian researcher and artist. Her work looks into anticolonial and antidisciplinary imaginaries and research practices, often through walking and speculative fabulations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Birzeit University and a master’s degree in Creative & Cultural Industries from SOAS, University of London. She’s currently a PhD researcher in Development Studies at IOB, University of Antwerp.
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mostly in English
ground floor, PMR-accessible space, accessible toilet on +1 via the elevator accompanied by someone with a building access badge (ask at the door or the bar).
