Interview with Palestinian Artist Noor Abed on Art, Memory, and Resistance

An interview with Palestinian interdisciplinary artist Noor Abed, conducted by Carolina Ciuti for exibart.es, explores Abed's artistic practice, which merges performance, experimental film, and collaborative pedagogy. The conversation addresses themes of forced displacement, memory as political action, and ritual as resistance, rooted in her experiences living in Palestine. Abed discusses her recent exhibition 'A Night We Held Between' at the Museu Tàpies in Barcelona, a project investigating everyday gestures transformed into rituals to combat forced forgetting. She explains how her work, influenced by social choreography and political imagination, examines the relationship between body, territory, and memory, particularly in fragmented geographies. Abed also details her co-founded project, School of Intrusions, an independent educational platform in Ramallah that intervenes in public and private spaces to activate knowledge from the ground up. The artist mentions ongoing projects, including a new short film shot in Palestine on Super 8 and a collaborative audiovisual book edition with Haig Aivazian. The interview is part of a series focusing on Palestinian artists, curators, and researchers, aiming to counter media silence in the region.