state of us
state of us is a project that comprises an exhibition at de Appel and a series of screenings, performances, and discussions focussing on the lingering and ever-mutating traumas of colonialism that cut across the present, in collaboration with EVA International.
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state of us
Film Screening:
Stop Strip Searching (1986)
Stop Strip Searching (1986)
Derry Film and Video Workshop’s (DFVW) film Stop Strip Searching documents the intensive use of strip-searching of women political prisoners in the north of Ireland in the early 1980s. Including interviews with ex-prisoners, legal experts, activists, psychologists and the family members of prisoners inside at the time, the film was used as a campaigning tool and toured widely in Ireland and beyond.
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Film Screening:
Stop Strip Searching (1986)
Stop Strip Searching (1986)
Arts, Imagination
and the Planetary Now
and the Planetary Now
In this conversation, Teesa Bahana (Director of 32° East, a not-for-profit space for contemporary art in Uganda) and Ola Hassanain (artist and architect) will explore our time of ecological collapse, political fragmentation, and growing inequality, in which culture is not a luxury – it is a necessity.
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Arts, Imagination
and the Planetary Now
and the Planetary Now
Editing Resistance
Workshop & Film Screenings
Workshop & Film Screenings
In this three-hour roundtable workshop, we'll examine clips from films on political struggle and discuss the practice of assembling and editing. In the evening, we will screen two short documentaries: Class Outside (2026) and happiness (2025), followed by a discussion with the artists Aylin Kuryel, Deniz Buga and Fırat Yücel.
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Editing Resistance
Workshop & Film Screenings
Workshop & Film Screenings