Stream #1 - Remove The Dot
‘Remove The Dot’ is an ongoing collaborative attempt to create a new lexicon in response to the institutional censorship and alteration of our words in Europe. Through an ongoing program, we take guidance from the past and present and explore how knowledge production in contexts of oppression and revolution help us to linger in spaces of imagination, which don't lead to dead metaphors, but instead work to keep our dead alive. The heart shares repressed forms of knowledge when the intellect cannot know, and through this project, we aim to maneuver ourselves around the contradictions imposed on us—between what we experience in our bodies and what’s portrayed within European institutions. The only way we can imagine liberation is to center the voices of those at the forefront of the liberation struggle, those who have dared to dream—our political prisoners and our martyrs. This series derives its name from Zakaria Alzubaidi, a political prisoner, who along with 5 others attempted to liberate themselves from the high-security Israeli prison, Gilboa. Zakaria was arrested before he could complete his thesis. In a call with his lawyer, he asked her to remove the dot from the final paragraph he wrote, symbolizing his wish for the story and the production of knowledge to continue until liberation. His literal words translates to “Remove the Dot”. Through monthly discussions, we want to build new infrastructures which more accurately represent our feeling of being alive and becoming. The project will also be an experimental archival project that we hope to build on with the contribution of others.