here and not here
Journal: University of the Arts London Research Online (University of the Arts London)
Year: 2025

here and not here abstract: This creative text is adapted from the narration in my film here and not here (2025)—a diary, dispatches from a place that does / not exist—a site of pressured being, a state in waiting, a geography beyond, but permanently besieged by conflict—and also the willed, resistant space of dream, desire, and imagination. Made in the Occupied West Bank and Golan Heights during the A. M. Qattan Foundation’s “Ways of Traveling” Residency, 2020–23, here and not here reflects mul