The Consortium Commissions
We are happy to announce that yasmine eid-sabbagh’s project, Frictional Conversations – The Script, will be premiering in Amsterdam at If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution, as part of the third edition of Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions 2023/2025.
yasmine eid-sabbagh
Frictional Conversations – The Script
June 20 to July 11, 2026
Opening on June 20, 2026 at 8:30pm
If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution
You can read more about the accompanying public program here.
Unfolding as a three-week program of events, yasmine’s project continues a 25-year process of (counter-)archiving a large repository of photographs from Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Having taken on different forms throughout the years, the archive is (de-)materialized into a script for an experimental radio show. Developed with musician and composer Sary Moussa and yasmine’s collaborators in the camp, the show interweaves field recordings, archival fragments, and conversations, along with an electronic music score, blurring past, present, and future. Performed live across four reading/broadcasting events, the script activates the images as prompts for speculation and storytelling, foregrounding the memories, desires, and subjectivities of five generations of Palestinians. You can read more about yasmine’s project here and see the full program handout here.
yasmine eid-sabbagh explores potentials of human agency by engaging in experimental, collective work processes. These include (counter-)archiving practices, such as the negotiation around a potential digital archive (re-)assembled in collaboration with inhabitants of Burj al-Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyr, Lebanon, and radical pedagogical projects such as Ses Milanes-créixer a la natura, a self-organized forest kindergarten in Bunyola, Spain, using nature as its main infrastructure. Photography often acts as a medium for her to communally investigate notions of collectivity, power, and endurance; as, for example, in her engagement as a member of the Arab Image Foundation, a practitioner-led archival institution, and as a focus in her PhD in Art Theory and Cultural Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2018).
Initiated by Mophradat, the Consortium Commissions is an innovative model for co-commissioning art projects by emerging artists from the Arab world. Every two years, Mophradat creates a network of collaborating partner museums, art centers, theatres, and festivals around the world that collectively select, produce, and exhibit ambitious new artworks by emerging artists from the Arab world. You can read more about the Consortium Commissions here.
The Consortium Commissions 2023/25 is implemented with the support of Mophradat’s institutional partners.