What is taking place today in Palestine is genocide. Genocide, as we understand it, is not a distinct event but a process unfolding at different scales, across different temporalities, spatialities, velocities and intensities whose intent is by all means to eliminate an entire people, to destroy their culture, to expel them from their life worlds and ancestral lands. 

 What Everybody Knows is one set of moments in that process. Although 17 years separate these recorded encounters from the atrocities unfolding in this moment against Palestinians, the processes analyzed in each encounter must be understood as moments and episodes of this same genocidal process. We see the sharing of this work as part of a struggle against the forces of oblivion and a call to listen to the silenced, to those who are on the ground, who actively analyze, give form, words, histories, sensibilities, contours and even horizons to their resistance against to the Israeli state’s ongoing genocidal crimes.

- …  (Dec. 7 2023)

In the spring of 2006, … travelled together throughout Palestine, searching, researching and witnessing the situation. From their trips, they created a series of  videos that document their encounters with people struggling, resisting, surviving, living, and thinking  through their everyday lives. Some of those include a geographer, a professor, a village elder, an architect, a former detainee, a Bedouin organizer, in sum people resisting their erasure.  Each video corresponds to one trip, a particular journey from  the 16 days, relying on the material captured only that day, from different situations and places  including: Jerusalem, Naqab, Hebron, Lydd, Ramleh, Qalqilya, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, Shu'fat, Bil'in and more. It is an attempt to rethink the question of Palestine and reformulate it through the experiences that these individuals offer in each case. One of the unique aspects of this work and the process the artists undertook is to listen carefully and hear the struggle narrated through specific contexts. Rather than approach Palestine through generalities, it approaches the whole in its fragments, singular, situated yet sharing patterns and commonalities. Together all 16 of these situations and encounters create a diagram or a map which not only renders more clear the social, psychological, and political conditions of contemporary life for Palestinians under occupation but also offer a rare glimpse of the analytics from below which nourishes the ongoing forms of resistance to colonial violence.

Presented at the Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015)