Jasmina Metwaly: On Trials, a Manual on a Collective

10. 10. 2022 from 6 pm

How do we speak the law? The enactment of the legal is a social construct brought about before the law and after its fictions. As socialised ghosts, our collective minds register each other’s codes, through methodical patterns of self-elevating humans. And through these, on-repeat renditions of memorised codes, we collectively share a law-like behaviour.

In her presentation, the artist Jasmina Metwaly will read and share images from a collective research on the theatricality of law.

Jasmina Metwaly (EG/PL) is a visual artist and filmmaker living in Berlin. During Egypt's Arab Spring, which toppled President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, Metwaly was a founding member of the Mosireen media collective, which collected video footage of the revolution during the unrest and promoted citizen journalism in places not covered by the news media. She is also a co-founder of the 858 Resistance Archive, in which the collected video materials were published. She collaborated with filmmaker Philip Rizk to promote video activism and "documentary riots".

The program of the Cursor Gallery is possible through kind support of Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague City Council, State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic, City District Prague 7, GESTOR – The Union for the Protection of Authorship
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