Gardens of Care
Unsettled Earth Closing program
Workshops, lectures, readings and performances
13. February 2026 - 15. February 2026
11.00-21.00
11.00-21.00
Save the Date
For free
for adults
in German/in English/in Arabic
This closing program extends Unsettled Earth’s year-long inquiry into practices and forms of organizing that unsettle the space-time of the colony and contest the systemic foreclosure of liberatory futures. It brings together experiments in agrarian autonomy across Palestine and the region, aesthetic strategies that rehearse anticolonial worldmaking and counter-histories of infrastructure and technology as terrains of struggle. Across these sites, the program attends to how collective political life is imagined, defended, and sustained amidst the colonial fragmentation of land, bodies, and psyches.
Through workshops, lectures, readings and performances, Manual for an Unsettled World insists on refusal as a material practice—one that cultivates insurgent subjectivities and reorders social relations. As a closing gesture of Unsettled Earth, the program does not offer resolution, but sharpens a shared horizon of struggle that moves against colonial permanence, engineered scarcity and the dismantling of native life-worlds.
Program
Friday, 13 Feb
14:30 – 17:00: Masha’a as Method: On Agrarian Resistance as Political Infrastructure
Workshop with Adham Karaja, The Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, Munira Khayyat (in Arabic); Classroom, 2nd Floor
18:00 – 21:00: Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another
Workshop with Firas Shehadeh; Classroom, 2nd Floor
Saturday, 14 Feb
11:00 – 11:30: Notes Toward an Unsettled World
Introduction with Joud Al-Tamimi and Lama El Khatib; Auditorium, Ground Floor
11:30 – 13:00: Aesthetics of the Repressed
Keynote lecture by Adam HajYahia followed by a conversation with Tobi Haslett; Auditorium, Ground Floor
13:00 – 14:30: The Longue Durée of German Coloniality
Presentation by Zoé Samudzi followed by a conversation with Bafta Sarbo, moderated by Jule Ulbricht; Auditorium, Ground Floor
16:00 – 18:00: Unsettled Earth: Artists in Conversation
Introductory notes from Angela Harutyunyan, followed by an artist conversation with Sarah Zeryab, Bayan Abu Nahla, Moayed Abou Ammouna, and Basyma Saad; Exhibition Hall, First Floor
Sunday, 15 Feb
12:00 – 14:00: Against Abstraction: Towards a Politics of Confrontation
Keynote lecture by Islam al Khatib followed by a panel with Al Khatib, Munira Khayyat and Omid Montazeri, moderated by Marwa Arsanios; Exhibition Hall, First Floor
14:00 – 15:30: Lunch
15:30 – 16:30: Shrinking Language, Bursting Memory
Reading with Alaa Alqaisi; Exhibition Hall, First Floor
17:00 – 18:00: In Defense of Darkness: A History of Palestinian Technology in Words and Numbers
Lecture with Haig Aivazian; Exhibition Hall, First Floor
18:30 – 21:30: Sound Performances; Atrium, Ground Floor
