avahcollective

Afghan Visual Arts & History *collective *platform *research *digital archive

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DECENTRALIZED: DIGITAL CREATIVE COLLECTIVES AND ONLINE ARCHIVING

virtual roundtable featuring digital creative collectives on approaching unconventional curating, researching, and archiving. Hosted by AVAH Collective

https://t.co/LJlkOMfsym

[حلیمه @_halema_]

Seeing a handful of gofun*me links going around for Afghanistan relief post earthquake. Please *do not* use that platform, your funds will be locked immediately due to sanctions! You could catch a felony by not abiding to OFAC rules/regulations!!!!

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the workshop Countering Fragmentation brings together Afghans to engage in direct dialogue with the invited artists. How can art bring together fragmented, lost knowledge and scattered experiences?

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Workshop with Afghan artists and art workers curated by @avahcollective
in collaboration with @hkw_berlin

Tue, Jun 28, 2022
4 pm - 7 pm

Free admission, with registration
In German, English and Farsi

Please register by June 26 with: [email protected]

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Countering Fragmentation
moderated by #moshtarihilal
Mentors: #rahraw_omarzad
and #shahrbanoosadat
Due to ongoing destabilization, destruction and flight, ever more people in and from Afghanistan are facing the ruins and fragments of their collective history and culture.

[Rabia @RabiaLatif91]

Does anyone know much about 'Hazara prayer cloths'? Are they prayer mats, or do they serve some other function? Was looking up Hazara embroidery and came across a website that has sold these.

[🇦🇫 Mina Sharif @minasharif]

A big American organization is asking Afghan women to share their stories for a book. I almost forwarded this to some women in terrible situations. Then I saw that submissions chosen, will compensate the Afghan women $25.

There is apparently, no limit to the disrespect.

[Lida Afghan @LidasEyes]

I need heeeelp -
With or without the scarf?
#Art #AfghanArt 🇦🇫

[Afghan Historians @AfghanHistorian]

There is a high probability that Afghan households abroad have this exact ghori (large serving plate).

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

Afghanistan: Amnesty International is deeply concerned over the arbitrary detention of Khalid Qaderi who is a poet and journalist in Herat province for exercising his freedom of expression and criticizing the Taliban through social media and in public gatherings.

[Yasmin Nair (One Tenacious B.) @NairYasmin]

What's happening is awful. But don't pretend that war does not involve bombing beloved cultural institutions, like theatres. That kind of targeting IS the point. Many of Afghanistan's national treasures are either wiped out or stolen by the "art market." 1/4

[avahcollective @avahcollective]

We are very happy to host our first in person event in collaboration with @themosaicrooms in response to the solo show #gutfeelings by @hayvkahraman in London, UK.

https://t.co/c6oAyjkApW

[Dr Weeda Mehran ویدا مهران @WeedaMehran]

House to house searches by the #Taliban. People are burning photographs, documents, books & anything that might incriminate. They delete contacts and social media accounts. With that, our history, our past, our culture and our memories are destroyed. #AfghanistanCrisis

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Aziz Hazara is tracking a shipment - 20 tonnes of rubbish collected from Bagram air base, formerly the largest US military base in Afghanistan, to return to the US.
he refers to it as the “supply chain of the global war on terror”

https://t.co/FGwwE8VaPd

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The artist @SaraNabilArtis1 protesting in Norway against the Taliban.

[Tajuden Soroush @TajudenSoroush]

A woman protests outside of Taliban room in the Taliban residency in Norway.

[Mirzaei Films @mirzaeifilms]

We are so honored to be premiering this film on Netflix on Monday, January 24🇦🇫 ما خوشحال هستیم فیلمم در شبکه نتفلیکس دوشنبه به نمایش گذشته میشود #Threesongsforbenazir #afghanistan

[Younus | یونس @yejaazy]

A rare picture of Ahmad Zahir in front of the Buddhas of Bamyan.

[Younus | یونس @yejaazy]

A historical document: this diploma belonged to the late Dr. Abdul Rahman Mahmoudi and is one of the first diplomas that was given to the first few doctors in modern medicine of Afghanistan (1932). My late grandfather tried his best to safeguard this historical document.

[Frud Bezhan فرود بيژن @FrudBezhan]

Footage of Taliban humiliating musicians, burning their instruments has stirred outrage among Afghans.

It confirms worst fears of Afghan artists. Despite claims of moderation, Taliban treating musicians with same disdain it showed in 1990s. #Afghanistan

https://t.co/7AhNsjvEGr

[Somaye @s_sarvarzade]

We have such a contested contemporary history that a regime change would lead to the change of streets’ names and the holidays in the calendar.
My home address in Herat now got expired!!!