An Artsformation podcast from the series Resistance: Decolonising the Internet.
What role does colonisation play in maintaining dictatorships across the globe? How does the digital transformation, through control and censorship of social media, relate to frameworks of repression? How can digital arts break through the barriers of censorship, inequality, borders and language? Artsformation discusses this and more with Samar Zughool, an artist who participated in our Lesvos residency and public assembly ‘Resistance: Decolonising the Digital Transformation.’ Her art performance at the assembly explored censorship of Jordanian facebook accounts speaking up for Palestinian human rights.
Samar Zughool is a community art director and performing artist. Through her series of practices, “SAMA Community Arts” and “NOT your Scheherazade“, she co-creates public performative journeys that deconstruct social communication as free of the enforced binarism of “nation-state” and “state-nation” as both tools and products of colonialism along with enforced gender binary profiling.
Samar is a co-founder of SIDE, a group of migrant women cooking and cleaning politics, cultures, and arts, and a project manager at Povod Institute for culture and development of international relations in culture in Slovenia.
Because of her interest in social movements, she conducted her master’s thesis research on “The Role of Women’s Rights Movements in Reforming Public Policies after the Arab Spring,” which was awarded the Prešeren national award for students from the Faculty of Social Sciences in Slovenia. Currently, within the Povod Institute in Slovenia, she is leading Euro-Med programs that connect arts, artivism, and social movements for social resilience and well-being.
European Alternatives is a partner of Artsformation, a research project exploring the intersection between arts, society and technology.
