Thalia Hoffman / Manar Zuabi
Make Art at Your Own Risk
19. – 31. 8. 24
About the course
The course deals with concepts and practices of the artistic voice (voicing) and is based on the joint teaching approach of the artists Manar Zuabi and Thalia Hoffman. This emerged from the way in which the artists orient their practice towards resistance against socio-political hegemonies.
The complexity of heterogeneous forms of artistic expression is to be explored in today's context with all its challenges. The course encourages participants to examine their practices as dynamic parallels that occasionally conflict, sometimes interact and often resist together through different artistic tactics. This approach aims to explore and create artworks and actions as artists' responsibilities and responses in spaces characterized by violence and loss.
The course is divided into four main themes: Language, Boundaries, Participatory Art, and Activist Interventions in Public Space. Each section will include discussion of artworks, shared reading, and group and individual exercises. Selected exercises will be shown as part of the open studios.
key data
- Venue
- Festung Hohensalzburg
- Date
- 19. – 31. 8. 24
Thalia Hoffman
Thalia Hoffman and Manar Zuabi each practice art, addressing the intersection of art and socio-political resistance to violence and racism. This is the first time Manar and Thalia are teaching together. The course structure and teaching methods consider the complexities of their collaboration.
Thalia Hoffman is a visual artist and researcher working in film, video, performance, and public interventions in the area where she lives, east of the Mediterranean. Alongside her artistic actions, Hoffman holds a PhD in artistic research from Leiden University and is a lecturer at the University of Haifa in video, performance and artistic research. Her work strives to be involved in its surroundings and engages people to look, listen and feel their socio-political landscape with attention. Thaliahoffman.com
Exhibitions
Recent Exhibition and Festivals:
2023 Jerusalem Film Festival, Experimental Competition, Jerusalem. 2022 Scattered Shared Spaces, Group Exhibition, Beit HaGefen, Haifa (IL). To Serve You, Performance&Talk, Framer Framed, Amsterdam. 2018 Guava (Solo Exhibition), Mamuta art & research center, Jerusalem. 2014 Story Time: Was it?, Helana Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv (IL).
Publications
Recent publications:
Here/Then and Now; a Memoir, PARC-Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration, December 2022
Back to Present, VIS-Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, November 2022
Feeding, Chapter in Making Matters, ed. Janneke Wesseling, Valiz Publication, The Netherlands, June 2022
Manar Zuabi
Manar Zuabi is a visual artist, curator, activist and educator. She works with installation, performance, and video art. Zuabi is one of the founders of the alternative experimental school “Masar” in Nazareth. With her art, she addresses questions about identity and culture in an axis that brings together art and life from a political and social point of view.
Exhibitions
Selected exhibitions:
2022 Scratched Horizon, Gallery Umm el-Fahem, Umm el-Fahem (IL). That Place This time, Tmuna Theatre, Tel Aviv. Return, following Edward Said, performance, Van Lir, Jerusalem. 2018 Without and Roses, Performance, Qalandiya International Biennale 3, Wadi Salib, Haifa. Stop or I’ll Shoot you, Performance with Taer Kaminer, University of Haifa. 2015 Berlin Performs, Podbielski Contemporary Gallery and Fries museum, Berlin.
Publications
Recent publications:
Manar Zuabi, Scratched Horizon, El-Sabar Association, Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, 2022.
Manar Zuabi, On Thin Line, Wilfrid Museum, 2015.
