Jerusalem Show VIII: Before and After Origins

Curated by Vivien Ziherl

Partners and Venues

• African Community Centre
• Arab Cultural Centre, Haifa
• Birzeit University Museum
• El Hakawati Theatre
• Gallery Anadiel
• Garage Café, Ramallah
• International Academy of Art Palestine
• Knights’ Palace Hotel
• Live Art Development Agency, London
• Old Commercial Press, New Gate
• the Shop at #35, New Gate
• The Tile Factory
• Yerevan Restaurant

Within the third Qalandiya International’s overall thematic of ‘This Sea is Mine’ and its implied notions of ‘return’ in the Palestinian context, curator Vivien Ziherl’s ‘Before and After Origins’ exhibition programme explored ‘return’ from the Jerusalem perspective. This eighth Jerusalem Show was the third platform of Ziherl’s Frontier Imaginaries project originally initiated in two exhibitions in Brisbane and Queensland, Australia in 2016 that looked at the theoretical implications of the concept and understandings of ‘the frontier’ in modernity, and specifically in relation to the settler colonial conditions in the parts of the world where they have had most impact. Featuring artists from Palestine and the occupied Golan, Australia and Aboriginal Australia, South Africa and Europe, ‘Before and After Origins’questioned the category of ‘origins’ through relational considerations of the outcomes of colonisation and the power and sense of territorial belonging.