Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s worldview was formed by the complexities of her expertise of rising up and rejecting Israeli citizenship and the ‘settler colonial identification’ that she had been assigned. Now, as a author, artwork curator and professor of comparative literature and fashionable tradition and media at Brown College, she works to reframe the previous to problem ideas of data, artwork, historical past and human rights as they’ve been framed by imperialism. Made on the event of her being awarded the Worldwide Heart of Pictures’s 2023 Infinity Award for Vital Writing, Analysis and Concept, on this video Azoulay attracts from her writings to argue for the collective crucial to ‘unlearn’ the omnipresent colonial constructs that encompass us. Specifically, she focuses on the necessity to view pictures as a part of ongoing conflicts and questions that may nonetheless be grappled with as we speak, fairly than simply previous documentation of an inevitable, settled current and future.
