PREDAVANJE/ LECTURE | Rana Anani: Skozi zrcalo Gaze/ Gaza, Through the Looking Glass

Letošnjo mednarodno Poletno šolo, ki jo skupaj organiziramo Moderna galerija (Ljubljana), Muzej afriške umetnosti (Beograd) in Muzej sodobne umetnosti Črne gore (Podgorica), bo odprlo javno predavanje palestinske kustosinje in pisateljice 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢.

V predavanju z naslovom 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑎 𝑠𝑘𝑜𝑧𝑖 𝑧𝑟𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑜 Anani preučuje, kako ni več meja med orožarsko in zabavno industrijo. Pri tem se opira na serijo filmov Haruna Farockija 𝐸𝑦𝑒/𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 (𝑂𝑘𝑜/𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑗) in na delo Mahmouda Al Haja 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑦 (𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑗𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑧𝑜𝑟𝑎) ter na njune srhljive odmeve v genocidu v Gazi.

Farocki prikazuje, kako razne vojske od zalivske vojne (1991) za usposabljanje vojakov uporabljajo estetiko videoiger in virtualne resničnosti, tako da je nasilje abstrahirano v čiste, oddaljene simulacije. Al Haj je v delih napovedal, kako bo ta abstrakcija postala grozljiva resničnost; danes so človeška življenja v Gazi zreducirana na podatkovne točke, toplotne slike in zemljevide nadzornih kamer.

Predavanje predstavi tezo, da orožarska industrija vse bolj črpa iz spekulativne domišljije videoiger in znanstvenofantastičnih produkcij, ne le za vojaška orodja, ampak za celotne vizije vojskovanja. Tehnologije, ki so bile nekoč omejene na zaslone in fikcijo, zdaj oblikujejo resnične ubijalske stroje, kot so govoreči droni in igrificirani sistemi za ciljanje.

Predavanje v prepletu umetnostne kritike, popularnih distopij in resničnega življenja v Gazi zastavlja vprašanja: Kakšno prihodnost ustvarjamo z zamišljanjem? Je postala znanstvena fantastika načrt za razvoj ubijalskih strojev? In kako bi lahko ponovno uvedli etično odgovornost v dobi mehaniziranih zločinov proti človeštvu, posredovanih na zaslonih?

Predavanju bo 𝐨𝐛 𝟏𝟗:𝟑𝟎 sledil filmski program z naslovom 𝑂𝑑 𝑣𝑜𝑗𝑛 𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑑𝑒𝑗𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑘𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑗𝑒: 𝑜𝑑𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖 𝑠𝑣𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑣𝑖, ki je del serije filmski projekcij 𝑰𝒛 𝒛̌𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒈𝒂 𝒖𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒛̌𝒆𝒍𝒆.
Več o filmskem programu ▶️ https://www.mg-lj.si/si/dogodki/4208/cikel-zivi-utrip-dezele/

📸Mahmoud Alhaj, serija Peta dimenzija (2020), digitalna fotografija

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This year’s international Summer School, jointly organized by Moderna galerija (Ljubljana), the Museum of African Art (Belgrade), and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro (Podgorica), will be opened by a public lecture by the Palestinian curator and author 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢.

This talk examines the collapse of boundaries between the arms and entertainment industries, drawing on Harun Farocki’s 𝐸𝑦𝑒/𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 film series, and Mahmoud Al Haj’s 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑦 body of work, and their disturbing echoes in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Farocki traced how, since the Gulf War (1991), militaries have adopted the aesthetics of video games and virtual reality to train soldiers, abstracting violence into clean, distant simulations. Al Haj’s works predicted how this abstraction has become a horrifying reality today, as human lives in Gaza are reduced to data points, thermal images, and surveillances maps.

The lecture argues that the arms industry increasingly draws from the speculative imagination of video games, but also sci-fi media productions, borrowing not just military tools but entire visions of warfare. Technologies, once confined to screens and fiction, now shape real-world killing machines such as talking drones and gamified targeting systems.

By weaving together artistic critique, popular dystopias, and lived realities in Gaza, this talk asks: What kind of future are we imagining into being? Has science fiction become a blueprint to serve developing these killing machines? And how might we reclaim ethical accountability in an age of mechanized, screen-mediated crimes against humanity?

𝐀𝐭 𝟏𝟗:𝟑𝟎 the lecture will be followed by a film programme titled 𝑊𝑎𝑟 𝑇𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠: 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠 that ia part of the 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒅’𝒔 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒖𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔.
More about the film programme ▶️ https://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/4208/series-the-living-pulse-of-the-country/

📸 Mahmoud Alhaj, Fifth Dimension series (2020), Digital Photography