Developed through the support of the Tae’thir Project, this research-based installation explores solidarity, labour, and collective memory through oral history, sound, sculpture, and textile.
Unshipped constitutes a conceptual and methodological framework for investigating contemporary violence, memory, and forms of resistance, taking the Palestinian question as its point of departure and extending into broader geopolitical and social conditions.
The title encapsulates both the shipments of weapons that were never delivered, due to dockworkers’ refusal to participate in the machinery of killing, and the humanitarian aid that never reached Gaza, thereby revealing the violence of abandonment.
At the same time, the research is grounded in oral history and horizontal archiving as participatory practices of knowledge production.
Through interviews, narratives, and non-normative historical tools, it explores how the archive may function not as a static repository, but as an active space of dialogue, counter-narratives, and the empowerment of excluded voices.
The Tae’thir Project is an artistic research and production support programme combining financial assistance with mentorship, creating a framework for artists to develop new projects through research, experimentation, and exchange.
Through professional guidance and material support, the programme accompanies artistic processes from their initial conceptual stages towards their realisation, fostering critical approaches and new methodologies within contemporary art.
Unshipped explores solidarity, labour, and collective memory through the testimonies of dockworkers in Marseille and Piraeus.
RESEARCH FIELDEveryday labour becomes a political gesture, transforming collective action into a form of resistance.
SOLIDARITY / LABOURThe project creates a living archive of grassroots solidarity through oral history, sound, sculpture, and textile.
ORAL HISTORY / SOUND / MATERIALArchiving becomes an active and participatory process rather than a fixed historical record.
ARCHIVE AS PRACTICECARGO / MEMORY / TESTIMONY / ARCHIVE
This work has benefited from the financial and mentorship support of the 'Tae'thir' project.
