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Tessa Beaver Julietta Singh

= Sandi Hilal = Sandi Hilal is an architect, writer and researcher. Hilal was Head of the Infrastructure and Camp Improvement Program in the West Bank at UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) from 2008 to 2014.

DAAR - Decolonising Architecture/Art Residency
Based in Palestine, DAAR is a collective working on art and architecture, comprised of Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman. The collective re-imagines, re-designs and re-purposes Israeli architecture as de-colonial practice.

Under "Architectural Profanations'" "The trick that architectural historians have used to evade problematizing this difficult heritage has been to separate its formal aspects from its political, social, and environmental motivations." Decolonizing Architecture Art Research https://www.decolonizing.ps/site/ https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/decolonizing-architecture-art/

Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti

Architectural Interventions
Concrete Tent, Dheisheh (2105) - "The Concrete Tent deals with the paradox of a permanent temporariness. It solidifies a mobile tent into a concrete house." "the tent as symbolic and historical value"

Shu'fat School

Common Assembly is a project by Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Eyal Weizman, Nicola Perugini with Yazeed Anani, Nishat Awan, Ghassan Bannoura, Benoit Burquel, Suzy Harris-Brandts, Runa Johannessen, Zografia Karekou, Cressida Kocienski, Lejla Odobasic, Carina Ottino, Elizabeth Paden, Sameena Sitabkhan, Amy Zion.

experimental educational program https://www.campusincamps.ps

Published Literature
Stateless Nation (2003) Venice Biennale

Architecture after Revolution by Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Eyal Weizman on Sternberg Press (2013)

https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/architecture-after-revolution/

Refugee Heritage (2021) Art & Theory Publishing in collaboration with Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; Van Abbemuseum; Art Jameel in Dubai. Published as part of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, 2021.

Permanent Temporariness (2018), published by Art &Theory Publishing in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden.

Public Memory, Public Art – Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today (2022) Art & Theory Publishing, in collaboration with Public Art Agency Sweden - Anthology edited by Annika Enqvist, Karolina Modig, Rebecka Katz Thor, Joanna Zawieja, asking, "What does it mean to remember through art?" .

interventions in refugee camps, the artistic practice of Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti has explored and acted within and against the condition of permanent temporariness that permeates contemporary forms of life. In their ambitious research- and project-based practice, art exhibitions are both sites of display and sites of action that spill over into other contexts: built architectural structures, the shaping of critical learning environments, interventions that challenge dominant collective narratives, the production of new political imaginations, the re-definition of words, and the formation of civic spaces.

= Exhibitions and Institutional collaborations = Biennale di Venezia (2003-2008-2009-2013-2015); Istanbul Biennial (2009); Home Works Beirut (2010); Bienal de São Paulo (2014); the Asian Art Biennial (2015); Marrakesh Biennial (2016); and Qalandia International (2016), Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017)

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency: Common Assembly - The Center for the Humanities, James Gallery, New York City, USA (2012) and Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2015). Group project by Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, Eyal Weizman, Nicola Perugini with Yazeed Anani, Nishat Awan, Ghassan Bannoura, Benoit Burquel, Suzy Harris-Brandts, Runa Johannessen, Zografia Karekou, Cressida Kocienski, Lejla Odobasic, Carina Ottino, Elizabeth Paden, Sameena Sitabkhan, Amy Zion. hown in

Palestine from Above - Qattan Foundation, Ramallah (2021), group show.

https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/10142/sandi-hilal

https://ccs.bard.edu/people/2208-sandi-hilal-and-alessandro-petti

= Awards = 2010 Prince Claus Prize for Architecture, 2016 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College, shortlisted for Visible Award, the Curry Stone Design Prize, the New School’s Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Artist Award, the Chrnikov Prize and recipient of the Foundation for Art Initiatives Grant.