Tan, Kai Syng, Rezeq, Tasnim, Ruddock, Martin, Mustafa, Ala' and Kernohan, Woodrow (2025) Karama: expressions of resistance from Gaza: exhibition, seminar, artifacts (66 photographic prints, audio clips, texts and more).
Abstract
-Communities within and beyond universities have been unsettled by the ongoing issues in Gaza, but have met barriers, resulting in mutual distrust.
-Karama (Arabic for 'dignity') connected community/cultural activist-leaders in both Southampton/UK and Palestine, John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, and MA Arts and Cultural Leadership.
-Karama is a collaboration between Martin Ruddock, who facilitated the PhotoVoice workshops in Gaza, Dr Tasnim Rezeq, who attended the workshops in 2013, and Ala’ Mustafa, a trauma-informed psychologist from the West Bank.
Hosted by John Hansard Gallery (Director: Woodrow Kernohan). Supported by MA Arts and Cultural Leadership (Programme Leader: Kai Syng Tan) at Winchester School of Art.
OUTPUTS:
-66 photographic and textual items in an exhibition at John Hansard Gallery that restaged a photovoice workshop that took place in 2013 led by Martin Ruddock
-public seminar (06/09/2025, attended by around 40-50 people)
-digital archive (in progress).
IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT:
-The 40-day exhibition (06/09/2025-01/11/2025) was visited by 5001 people at JHG and 102,658 online, and praised by community as ‘deeply moving’ and boundary-pushing, and the Head of Humanities Prof James Ryan as ‘wonderful’ and ‘fantastic’.
-Introduced novel research methods (combining photovoice, decolonial co-leadership, neuro-queer curation); 'participatory moments' by Martin Ruddock
-Generated knowledge assets (66 artefacts, seminar, exhibition, documentations);
-Enhanced teaching/learning (MA Arts and Cultural Leadership, Fine Art, Psychology, Archaeology; Humanities HoS: “wonderful”, “fantastic”);
-Broadened UoS reach (5001 visitors,102,658 online), and
-Modelled UoS “academic freedom [...] through constructive, civil debate", and “ensuring different views are heard” – in an elegant and powerful way, through the arts, through the "soft" power of the arts (communities previously dis-connected called it “deeply moving”, and “really pushing boundaries big institutions are too timid too touch!”).
-Karama also fulfilled the Social Value Framework in multiple ways.
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