Fisher Center LAB and Center for Human Rights and the Arts
Abir Saksouk (Public Works)
Mapping and Documentation as Tools Against Erasure
February 25
Fisher Center LAB and Center for Human Rights and the Arts
February 25
Abir Saksouk from Public Works narrates cities and towns targeted by the ongoing Israeli aggressions on Lebanon as sites of contestation between conceived plans and lived realities. It underscores the power of documentation, material evidence, and mapping in deconstructing dominant discourses around places and their reconstruction. This talk is based on In Search for Justice Among the Rubble, an exhibition by Public Works that took place in Tunis as part of Evidence, an international festival by Fisher Center LAB, in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts.
This talk is produced in collaboration with Fen Live Lab (فل/F’LL), an incubator for innovations in live art and performance practices. It is moderated by Tania El Khoury, Fisher Center LAB Artist in Residence.
Abir Saksouk graduated as an architect in 2005, and later did her master’s in Urban Development Planning. She is the co-founder and co-director of Public Works, a multidisciplinary research and advocacy studio engaged critically and creatively with a number of urban and public issues in Lebanon. Her primary focus includes urbanism and law, property and shared space, and the right to the city of marginalized communities.
