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. 

Located at the Fish Tank Workshop and Gallery in North East London

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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