Stone Assemblies (PRE-ORDER)
Stone Assemblies is an initiative that unfolded in parallel with, but independent from, the production of Sebastia, an 800-square-meter artwork and city floor by Jumana Manna in the newly rebuilt Government Quarter in Oslo. Taking the political and cultural history of extraction and land struggles in Palestine and Norway as its starting point, this volume offers a set of proposals through which the politics of stone, ruination, and dissent might be reimagined.
Through essays, poems, artworks, and conversations, the diverse contributors critically and creatively intervene into what art, language, and the workings of culture more broadly can do in and against the nation-state’s normative terms of order: ceasefire, assimilation, disposability, and the vertical models of governance and memorialisation.
Shaped by a range of diasporic and Indigenous traditions, Stone Assemblies gestures towards an embrace of all that remains to be reassembled, renewed, and re-membered as we persist in our anti-extractivist, anticolonial practices of art and gathering.
Edited by Rana Issa and Jumana Manna, with Liv Brissach, and designed by Tiffany Malakooti, the publication features contributions by Mohamed Abdi, Heba Al-Agha, Priya Bains, Wendy Brown, Samia Halaby, Iman Issa, Wendy Lotterman, Fred Moten, Kathrine Nedrejord, Abdaljawad Omar, Sarah Rifky, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Drew Snyder, Oraib Toukan, and Haytham el-Wardany.
The book is currently available for preorder. All copies will be shipped no later than November 15.
- 17 x 24 cm
- 248
- EN
- 2026
- 978-88-8056-367-9
