Palestinian Wildlife Series: embodiment in images, critical abstraction

Rania Lee Khalil

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The expanded cinema performance ‘Palestinian Wildlife Series’ parallels posthuman and postcolonial circumstance, using appropriated imagery of African animals shot directly from a television set in Palestine. Chronicling the experimentation and process that went into this work of ‘animal-video choreography’, the author interweaves research on Palestine, materialist film, and Afrofuturist thought. The exposition reflects on the impact upon Khalil’s work of women performance artists and avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra, presenting a journey from text-based and signifier-heavy early experiments to the wordless and open-ended cinematic outcome the author comes to defend. Drawing on her transition from live performance to moving image production, this exposition will interest those concerned with interdisciplinarity and embodiment in digital imagery. It examines alternative modes of art activism and political uses of abstraction and experimentalism in art, specifically where critical ethnic and postcolonial studies are concerned. It supports discussions of rights and representation within artistic research and beyond from a diasporic perspective.

type	research exposition
keywords	performance, afrofuturism, artistic research, interdisciplinarity, intercultural, embodiment, moving images, participatory spectatorship, postcolonialism, posthumanism
date	01/01/2016
published	28/04/2016
last modified	28/04/2016
status	published
share status	private
affiliation	Theatre Academy Helsinki
license	All rights reserved
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/135120/135121
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.135120
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	10.
external link	www.raniakhalil.co

name	elephant
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usages	picture

name	better old school tv
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	picture, picture

name	first giraffe sunrise ever
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	lions laying beside each other 15.11
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	jar lions laying beside each other
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	pecha kutcha lion kill
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	pecha kutcha buffalo remix pt 1
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	wretched
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	picture

name	IMG_4678
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	picture

name	said non-european
copyright	RAnia Khalil
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usages	picture

name	chomsky
copyright	RAnia Khalil
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name	said end of peace process
copyright	Rania Khalil
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name	mashala
copyright	rania Khalil
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name	said out of place
copyright	Rania Khalil
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name	the is-pal conflict
copyright	RAnia Khalil
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name	saree makdisi
copyright	Rania khalil
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name	said covering islam
copyright	Rania Khalil
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name	hx of modern palestine
copyright	Rania Khalil
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name	acts of memory
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	picture

name	question of palestine
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	picture

name	jar the parties are zionism
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	2 moshe dayan poetic
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	4 1967 poetic 1
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	jar didactic 1967
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	footup V4D
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	picture

name	giraffe in space
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	08 Sun Thoughts - copy
copyright	Sun Ra
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usages	audio

name	terre lion 1
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	picture

name	jar petcha land of peace
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	pal land loss map
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	picture

name	old school tv - copy
copyright	Rania Khalil
license	All rights reserved
usages	picture

name	old school tv - copy
copyright	Rania Khalil
license	All rights reserved
usages	picture

name	jar why fight credits - copy
copyright	Rania Khalil
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usages	video

name	why fight 15.11 - copy
copyright	Rania Khalil
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