Libraries Are Not Supposed To Be Quiet
What if art became illegal? How can an artist exist in a world where their expression is suppressed? With the rise of far-right politics and growing political tensions, artists from marginalized communities engage with the urgent question: how do we create when the very act of creation is under threat?
Examining the question of art legality through a public intervention program, the library is seen as a studio and as a stage. In the months leading up to 9 November, a series of interventions will unfold across various public libraries, where artists, many of whom have already been pushed beyond conventional art spaces, confront the looming fear of political censorship. The Interventions are filmed and presented in a screening program at MOIRA with an exhibition and an artist talk that reflects on the research and the findings.
More over each artists and their contribution can be found via this link.
Curating for a community of artists and cultural workers who are scared, these are individuals who have been, in one way or another directly affected or are aware of the possible effects of current politics on their lives and other communities around them. These artists, all directly impacted by political shifts, are invited to use libraries to perform and activate existing knowledge, hiding in plain sight and in the public sphere.
16:00 - 17:00 | Exhibition: Ashtar Azouz
17:00 - 17:15 | Al-Shaheen Falcon curator introduction
17:15 - 18:00 | Interventions Screenings: FAY | Becky Stabber x The Patchwork Family
18:00 - 19:00 | BURKAN A/V set
19:15 - 20:00 | Artist talk moderated by Sammie Tjon Sien Foek
Al-Shaheen Falcon is one of the U? 2025 community curators.
