Aziza Harmel ~ Keywords: curatorial, the land and the sea, those who can not travel, community, regimes of visibility, secrecy, illness, love

Aziza Harmel
Aziza Harmel (b.1985, Tunis) Is an independent curator. She co-curated the 12th edition of Bamako Encounters: Biennale of African Photography in Mali (2019-2020). Recently she co-curated a show titled Do Nothing, Feel Everything at Kunsthalle Wien (2022) which looked into art practices that understand insanity as a common condition and as a dynamic form of knowledge with something crucial at stake—art practices that, through careful bruising, find ways to soothe and to bear.
 
She is currently co-curator of Hosting Lands which an alternative exhibition and research program, with the intent of 'hacking' art funding in order to set up long-lasting infrastructures of community- and land care, as well as facilitate trans-local collaborations with a focus on environmental justice while weaving between different existing communities. 
 


 

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Learn more about Aziza Harmel’s written MA thesis: The Intellectual Today Between the Contemporary Sublime and Urgency

Learn more about Aziza Harmel’s books published by DAI: They Have Thrown the Scouts in the Sea 1947–2013 & Ayna

Some years after her graduation Aziza Harmel returned to DAI performing a variety of roles: in 2020 she hosted and guest-curated DAI Week 4+5 in Tunis, she presented lectures in Tunis (Back and forth. Forth and never back. Never forth and never back.) as well as at PAF 2022 where she talked about the project Hosting Lands. In 2022 she also was as a guest respondent to the DAI's final first year's Kitchen at Centrale Fies. Since a few years Aziza Harmel is also a valued member of our Admissions Committee.

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