Freja Nøhr Kristiansen

1. What About The Images

Annabel Steurs & Freja Nøhr Kristiansen

​​Red linen (warp), brown wool acrylic mix (weft, bottom), green acrylic wool mix (weft, top), red acrylic (weft, letters)

 

Direction: Right to Left, Ground to Sky, Today to Yesterday.

 

What About The Images is an exchange of words between two sets of hands; a sequence of responses and deviations; a dialogue; a banner; a call to action. We write from urgency, we write for a Free Palestine. We stop when we have nothing more to say, or no more space to say it, or no more time to shape the words with our tongues or hands. We have seven meters, two months and each other. We weave our words in the order demanded by the loom, letting it guide our direction; from bottom to top, from right to left, from image to text to action. We weave, one by one, not knowing the words of the other before they are already woven, letting the loom be the place where our conversation takes shape. Only knowing we are both pulling; collaging from the same text[1], yet not knowing when or if the words will be morphed or replaced by the other, only having the power to react to the threads left behind. Pulling from a history of protest, pulling so as to look backwards, looking backwards so as to see Today, so as to see Palestine.

 

Direction: From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free.

 

[1] The text mentioned is How To : Write an Image from Today : How To : Write Through It by RupturInc. with words by Annabel Steurs, Freja Nøhr Kristiansen, Sojourna Jon-Paul and others.

 

2. Speaking Images

Annabel Steurs & Freja Nøhr Kristiansen

Sound Piece (25 min)

 

Speaking Images is making the written word into sound, speaking out; reading out the text How To : Write an Image[2]. It is a sound piece, and the sound is coming from the mouth of Sojourna Jon-Paul, our comrade and collaborator: speaking out images of erasure; images of the Palestinian genocide, moving backwards; uncovering the loop of history’s repetition through antiwar protest imagery from the Vietnam war to Palestine. Dissecting the role of images in history, looking at the body of images, the images of bodies, the bodies that become images. Asking what the images require: how to deal with them, how to look - using our bodies to look, using our bodies to act on what we are seeing.

 

[2] The text mentioned is from Today : How To : Write Through It by RupturInc. with words by Annabel Steurs, Freja Nøhr Kristiansen, Sojourna Jon-Paul and others.