Tasakko’ (تســّكع): The Politics of Street Art in AmmanTassako’ analyzes street art in Amman as a site of political struggle, tracing its evolution under neoliberal economic policies and cultural diplomacy. Using Michel De Certeau’s Practice of Everyday Life, Tasakko’ studies how street art shifted from a subversive "tactic" to a state-sanctioned "strategy" for urban beautification and political control. Through interviews and spatial and historical analysis, my research revealed how, through co-optation and foreign investment, street art in Amman--once a fugitive space--was stripped of its subversive and revolutionary potential.
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Artworks created for campaigns related to the Palestinian Movement in the US and the diaspora more generally
Step By Step/Heart By Heart / 2023
Return to Unity Intifada / 2021
Climate Change in Gaza / 2021
Imagine Ending Apartheid / 2023
—Alaa Abd El-Fattah
Alaa is an Egyptian activist, open source software developer, and writer.
Alaa has faced ongoing persecution under Mubarak and Morsi, and today is being held in a maximum security prison by Sisi’s regime.
#FreeAlaa is years-long campaign calling for Alaa’s immediate release from prison. In this version of the campaign we aimed to shed light on Alaa’s writings and book: “You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.”
These designs are published on wikimedia creative commons and have been used around the globe to call for the immediate release of Alaa, and all political prisoners in Egypt and beyond.
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Alaa has faced ongoing persecution under Mubarak and Morsi, and today is being held in a maximum security prison by Sisi’s regime.
#FreeAlaa is years-long campaign calling for Alaa’s immediate release from prison. In this version of the campaign we aimed to shed light on Alaa’s writings and book: “You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.”
These designs are published on wikimedia creative commons and have been used around the globe to call for the immediate release of Alaa, and all political prisoners in Egypt and beyond.
“Yes, on the simple question of how to finally retire the hashtag #FreeAlaa you have little, if any, agency, but on the question of whether the internet is a space in which we come together to enjoy, assert, practise and defend universal rights and freedoms you have a lot of agency. Unlike me, you have not yet been defeated.”
- You Have Not Been
Defeated, 2017
The Written Resistance
issue: 0.0002WEEKS WHEN DECADES HAPPEN
“There are decades where nothinghappens; and there are weeks where decades happen." – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Holy Grain is a mural and zine installation grounded in the history, the contemporary cultural and active practices that are shaped by the economic and symbolic capital of bread in Jordan.
Holy Grain was exhibited on the wooden graffiti wall behind the Bard College Campus Center.
The mural takes inspiration from the chant used during the bread riots in Jordan in 2016 (خبز، حرّية، عدالة إجتماعية) bread, freedom and social justice.
Based on the Jordanian tradition of leaving stale or dry bread hanging in plastic bags on the side of public garbage bins, Holy Grain hangs a comic strip that discusses the following: The oldest piece of bread found in the northeastern desert of the country. The US agricultural dumping--known as the main contibutor to Jordans wheat import depedancy.
The audience is invited to enjoy the mural and also to come close and grab a comic strip to take them home.
Presented as part of the Undercooked works-in-progress microfestival by MA Human Rights & the Arts.
