Nour Shantout's project explores how embroidery has been influenced by the migration of Syrian-Palestinian and Syrian women who took refuge in Lebanon following the 2011 revolution and the subsequent war in Syria.
She will unravel the different layers of the research process, reflecting on what refusal looks like in practice. Drawing on feminist and Indigenous methodologies, she positions artistic research as a space of unlearning, where learning to unlearn becomes both a method and a necessity.
Nour Shantout is an artist, researcher, and educator, born in Damascus and based in Vienna since 2015. Her work centres on themes of subjugated heritage, counter-memory and history, labour, and alienation, approached from a postcolonial feminist perspective. It is situated in continuity with the political application of Palestinian embroidery, a practice that emerged from the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
MA Forum is a public seminar series on artistic research, hosted by HDK-Valand, in collaboration with l’Internationale Online. Through invited guests, the series explores different dimensions of artistic research.
