Mohammad Jabali | Tohu Magazine conference
Channel: Tohu Magazine
Date: 2017-05-23

Tohu Magazine conference | Space is the Place: Afrofuturism, Arabfuturism and the Search for New Dimensions
26 April, 2017 | Basis Art School, Herzlyia

An international conference surveying Afrofuturistic and Arabfuturistic expressions and looking into the possibilities of ethnofuturistic thought in Middle Eastern art and culture.

Muhammad Jabali | Aliens: Beyond Western Christendom

Combining postcolonial theory with science fiction and visual culture, Muhammad Jabali showcases the images of Muslims and the Orient in Western science fiction, and goes on to discuss Arab pulp fiction and modern Arabfuturism. Jabali addresses what he perceives as the main problem with Arabfuturism – the inability to produce an imagination that lies outside the axioms of history, time, space, and the socio-political configurations of Western Christendom. Jabali calls for an imagination that would surpass these barriers, be it futurism or speculative futuristic art.
 
Mohammad Jabali is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, poet, illustrator, DJ, online marketer and SEO, faculty member at the Photography Department in Bezalel Art Academy, and lecturer on Internet as a public sphere and its role in contemporary art.

Introduction by Leah Abir, co-founding editor of Tohu magazine

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