2026 ~ Roaming Assembly #33 ~ Ever Given / Ali Hussein Al-Adawy & Haytham el-Wardany, “Choosing the Sad End”
“Choosing the Sad End” is a four-chapter artistic research project that critically interrogates national liberation and transnational solidarity and poses the question: How did the left's political and cultural-artistic project shift from an internationalist liberation project to just symbolic gestures within a globalized political economy of solidarity?
Through dialogues with four characters in four different cities –Amman, Nicosia, Beirut, and Tunis– the project seeks to inspire a political imagination in the current moment. Those characters act as gateways to specific archival and historical networks, consisting mainly of various publications, knowledge production, designs, artworks, and films. These materials engage with national liberation, decolonization movements, and transnational solidarity in the “Third World” (Global South).
In each city, the project collaborates with a co-curator and partnering art space around the core questions of the project beyond the limitations of the Cold War scope to explore a grassroots perspective.
