i usually don’t post about food but i had the best chicken thighs (succulent and perfectly crispy on the outside) with the best mash ever (made with sweet potatoes – rich, almost gelatinous) at @theprincealfredpub (1856) on formosa street #maidavale #london
for dessert we had #vanilla #pannacotta that had the texture of smooth heavenly clouds
view from my room, #maidavale, #london
at #gatwickairport #london
u.s. and british citizens all together
do-it-yourself passport and face scan no lines
pretty convenient
this past weekend i had the chance to see ‘a bridge between you and everything: an exhibition of iranian women artists’ curated by shirin neshat at @thehighlinenine in #nyc
at the clair tow theater @lctheater to see sylvia khoury’s ‘power strip.’ my second play by khoury. also saw ‘against the hillside’ with the fabulous rajesh bose.
in #nyc
last night: crab and spaghetti at @giuseppesons and then apple cobbler a la mode and jazz music by sharon sable and her band at @chrisjazzcafephilly #philadelphia
with some of the #artists and #scholars who performed at and organized ‘a people’s tribunal: 28 articles’ at @12gates #philadelphia #philly
What I will be attending today: A People’s Tribunal: 28 Exhibits
October 19, 2019, 4-6PM
Twelve Gates Arts, 106 N. 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Performers: Amina Ahmed, Dena Al-Adeeb, Fadaa Ali, Yaroub Al-Obaidi, Nada El-Kouny, Hatif Farhan, Kazem Ghouchani, Maryam Jahanbin, Luma Jasim, Mohammed Okab, Hussein Smko
Organizers: Dena Al-Adeeb, Shimrit Lee, Nataša Prljevi?, Farideh Sakhaeifar
28 Exhibits is a performative tribunal that brings together a group of artists, activists, and scholars to account for the impact of global counterinsurgency doctrine. With storytelling, installation, and song as “evidence,” the tribunal interrogates the rhetoric that has fueled the lasting trauma of the U.S. War in Iraq, while building a collective archive that fosters alternative spaces of restitution for evaluating the war on terror.
Our starting point is Twenty-Eight Articles, a 2006 paper written by Australian strategist David Kilcullen used to advise General David Petraeus, who helped design the Iraq War troop surge. The “Twenty-Eight Articles”, a nod to T.E. Lawrence’s “twenty-seven articles” on tribal desert warfare from 1917, describes counterinsurgency as “armed social work,” and urges the modern counter-insurgent to “engage the women, beware the children,” “know the turf,” “remember the global audience,” and above all, “keep the initiative.” The document was later formalized as an appendix to the FM 3-24, the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency doctrine, and has been in use by U.S., British, Canadian, Dutch, Iraqi and Afghan armies as a training document. 28 Exhibits will be set up like a trial, in which excerpts of Kilcullen’s articles will be critically evaluated through artistic intervention.
28 Exhibits is an extension of Clear-Hold-Build, an exhibit currently on view in Philadelphia’s Twelve Gates Arts, which brings together artists to survey the impact of counterinsurgency over the past seven decades. Clear-Hold-Build is curated by Shimrit Lee, Joshua Nierodzinski and Nataša Prljevi? of HEKLER, an artist-run collaborative platform that fosters critical examination of hospitality and conflict. The event 28 Exhibits is the product of a collaboration between HEKLER and exhibiting artists Dena Al-Adeeb and Farideh Sakhaeifer.
#dinner at @sampanphilly on s 13th street – #seafood #dumplings and crispy #shrimp
love sitting outside in this #fall weather #philadelphia #philly
weekend at @firelightcamps in #ithaca where we are #glamping for my husband’s #birthday
beautiful #drive from @cityofrochesterny on a lovely sunny day
brunch at @agava_restaurant and then some #hiking along #buttermilkfalls #trail
