Design, co-build install and deinstall of stages for The Land of Common Disgrace 

A participatory, collective act of resistance against the arrest and prosecution of pro-Palestinian protesters in Britain. Members of the public and participant/actors will build a series of film sets together. Through theatre workshop exercises, participant/actors will devise short scenes in which they re-create, and subvert, moments from their police interview and trial. Every stage is open to the public, and will be filmed; a combination of live performance, documentary, political education, and radical theatre. 

The Land of Common Disgrace is devised by Saeed Taji Farouky as a project of the new militant architecture collective AK48. Saeed is a Palestinian-Egyptian-British artist/ filmmaker who has been making work around themes of conflict, human rights, and anti-colonialism since 2005, as well as a radical film educator, regularly teaching, leading workshops, and lecturing about militant cinema and alternative forms of cinematic storytelling. He is designer and lead tutor of the Radical Film School, a free film course for people from marginalised backgrounds dedicated to political, collective filmmaking.

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