Episode
E21 - When Displacement Learns to Sway (Siraj Shawa)
- Podcast
- MEMORY FOR DENIAL
- Published
- Nov 21, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 1293
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/memory-for-denial-7121022/episodes/e21-when-displacement-learns-to-sway-siraj-shawa/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/memory-for-denial-7121022/e21-when-displacement-learns-to-sway-siraj-shawa.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Siraj Shawa's "Nazeh: When Displacement Learns to Sway" Siraj Shawa is an electronic music producer and beat box artist, born in Gaza in 1993. GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025 Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBC Public programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28 The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the world to create new hybrids. Through repetition and reproduction, artworks survive the destruction of a genocidal war machine and reappear by virtue of partnerships in different parts of the world. Transcending territory, the Gaza Biennale expands through a human topography that cannot possibly be besieged. Defying genocide, Gazan artists have continued creating, resisting seemingly endless displacements, bombardments, and forced starvation through their art. Initiated in partnership with the Al Risan Art Museum (Forbidden Museum) in the West Bank, the Gaza Biennale sends their message out into the world. Arriving in Berlin on November 21, 2025, the Berlin Pavilion will open across different venues in the city to show the works of over thirty artists. It unfolds with exhibitions at sites including Flutgraben, Agit, and Khan Aljanub, and with programs hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28, as well as around the streets of Berlin. With a collaboratively curated public program, it invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in these gatherings to practice listening, healing, and mourning; to share joy and sorrow; and to cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive syste…