Book Bloc Brigade
Description
Book Bloc Brigade was formed in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the violent police repression of students at university encampments across the Netherlands. The book bloc consists of book covers scaled to shield dimensions. These shields are on view, but also available to borrow, during de Appel’s regular opening hours.
Invented by the Italian student movement in November 2010 against Berlusconi's education reform, a book bloc consists of book covers scaled to shield dimensions. They give reasons for revolt and resolve to resist, they protect against police brutality, they provide a walking bibliography and they make great media images. They are never a weapon. This time, the book bloc is back to support the university encampments and other protests in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation. With this Brigade, they want to continue to improve the shield design and teach people how to make them, in order to protect and embolden activists in their struggle. The station at de Appel makes the shields available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times. You can find the station next to the stairs leading to the exhibition space. Please ask a host at the reception for instructions.
de Appel hosts this art project as part of their social responsibility towards a free society.
Book Bloc – The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – Your Silence Will Not Protect You – Audre Lorde, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – The Invention Of The Land Of Israel – Shlomo Sand, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – An Army Like No Other: How The Israel Defence Forces Made A Nation – Haim Bresheeth Zabner, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – Ten Myths About Israel – Ilan Pappe, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – The Poverty Of Ethics – Anat Matar, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – Atlas of the Conflict – Malkit Shoshan, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – Intellectual Resistance and the Struggle for Palestine – Matthew Abraham, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.
Book Bloc – The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon, affiche
The book bloc consists of book covers painted on cardboard and scaled to shield dimensions with handles on the backside.
On view at de Appel and available to comrades to borrow (and return) when necessary during de Appel’s opening times.