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Basel Abbas

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (1983, Nicosia, Cyprus and Boston, USA) are an artist duo based between Ramallah and New York. They work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. Across their works they probe a contemporary landscape marked by seemingly perpetual crisis and an endless ‘present’, one that is shaped by a politics of desire and disaster. They have been developing a body of work that questions this suspension of the present and searches for ways in which an altogether different imaginary and language can emerge that is not bound within colonial/capitalist narrative and discourse. They have performed at several institutions including the Live Arts Bard Biennale 19 (New York), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Images Festival (Copenhagen) and the Serpentine (London). Their work has been exhibited at venues including the Beirut Art Center, Kunstverein (Hamburg), Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge) and at the Sharjah and Istanbul biennials. They won the Abraaj Group Art Prize in 2016 and were shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize in 2019.

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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

One of Eadweard Muybridge’s earliest contributions to the photographic image were stereographs commissioned by the U.S. Army, capturing their war against the Modoc Tribe in Northern California. These stereographs, many of which were staged, are revisited here through violent collisions of image and sound – generating entangled histories of visual technology, genocide and expropriation of Indigenous populations.

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6 mins

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2024
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

‘If every person on the planet could make a love tape, then you’d really know what it’s like to be human’ ~Wendy Clarke

Endless Love Tapes (United Kingdom, 2025) is a pilot project by Wendy Clarke (US) and Kim Coleman (UK). Artist Wendy Clarke’s participatory video project, Love Tapes – which she began in 1977 – is an incredible collection of over 2,500 three-minute videos where people discuss what love means to them.

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98 mins

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2025
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

A critical look at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century, examining the confluence of carceral, therapeutic and socioeconomic incentives that determined their influence.

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20 mins

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2024
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

Over 100 filmmakers and artists from around the world have formed Some Strings, an ensemble of unreleased filmic gestures rooted in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer was targeted by Israeli strikes along with seven members of his family.

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300 mins

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2024
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

A film, installation, and exhibition by artist and filmmaker Harry Lawson, created in collaboration with young inner-city horse riders from Stepney Bank Stables in Newcastle. Reimagining Byker as the Wild West, the project blurs the line between fact and fiction, weaving together recontextualised iPhone footage shot by the riders, archival material from the North East Film Archive, and Lawson’s own cinematography.

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40 mins

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2025
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Friday 28 March, 19:00

In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring archives from Callie Hernandez’s late father, Invention explores the process of grieving a complicated parent; the ‘fictions and fantasies that follow loss, allowing us to bear disappointment both as individuals and publics in times of national decline’

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72 mins

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2024
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