An Artist's Manual Against Apartheid

Zaytoun is a social enterprise inspired by a love of Palestinian culture, communities and cuisine. We exist to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade – 100% of our profits are reinvested into delivering this mission.

Home is peace. Home is safety. Home is love.
For many of us, it is the space we are most at ease, a space where memories are created and happiness forged. When our homes are secure we are free to live and thrive surrounded by community and those who love us. Our need for home connects us all.

This visual will look at Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid through the lens of Palestinian food production as defined by Via Campesina. The story will be grounded in principles of food sovereignty and will build on Visualizing Palestine’s series on environmental justice in Palestine.

Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Through sculpture, filmmaking, and occasional writing, Manna deals with the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly within the fields of architecture, agriculture and law. Her practice considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life and its regeneration. Jumana was raised in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin.

Vivien Sansour is an artist, storyteller, researcher and conservationist.

She uses image, sketch, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for the protection of biodiversity as a cultural and political act.Vivien works with a global network of farmers and seed advocates to promote seed conservation and agrobiodiversity.

Mirna Bamieh explores the politics of disappearance and memory production by unpacking the social concerns and limitations of Palestinian communities amid contemporary political dilemmas. Since 2019 the artist has also been reflecting on the process of fermentation through text, ceramics and video works incorporated into site-specific interactive installations. Bamieh sees fermentation as a way to extend life, nurture beneficial ecologies, and shift flavors and textures—making it both a metaphor and a method in her multidisciplinary practice.

I am an interdisciplinary artist, working across gestural drawing, ceramics, ecology, food and alchemy. I am also an educator, programme curator, project manager and culinary researcher. Interested in urban and environmental research, materiality, and alchemy, I work within these realms to create works and projects that are socially engaged, robust and intensive.