Para-siting: Remove the Dot
We are very excited to present Para-siting, a new programme that runs parallel to our exhibition programme. Para-siting is our response to the tremendous urgency we saw during W139 hosts… to create space for experimentation, try-outs, and work in progress. From 24 February to 30 March 2025, our first Para-siting project is Remove the Dot.
The work Remove the Dot is an ongoing research program by Saja Amro and Wassila Abboud that takes guidance from historical and present voices at the forefront of the liberation struggle. The program is in response to European institutional censorship which tends to obfuscate the material reality in Palestine. Through both a personal and material lens, Saja and Wassila explore how knowledge production in contexts of oppression and revolution help us to linger in spaces of imagination, specifically for those from the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance.
The work so far has evolved through various forms including diagrams, public sessions, reading groups, and study days. The recent on-going program explores the concept of martyrdom and the commitment to sacrifice for a land; requiring a rationality incomprehensible within western frameworks. Saja and Wassila will use their time, as part of the Para-siting program, to reflect on the previous iteration of the work, evolve it, and focus on the key question of how they can expand the research to create an open source tool, inviting a wider range of people to collaborate.
This series derives its name from Zakaria Zubeidi, a political prisoner who, along with five others, attempted to liberate himself from the high-security Israeli prison, Gilboa. Zakaria was arrested before he could complete his thesis. In a call with his lawyer, he asked her to remove the dot from the final paragraph he had written, symbolizing his wish for the story and the cultivation of knowledge to continue until liberation. His literal words translate to “Remove the Dot.”
Visual identity by Studio Buy My Talent.
