Sada

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Sada, meaning “echo” in Arabic, was conceived as Sada for Iraqi art by the Baghdad-born Rijin Sahakian. Sahakian set up the initiative, which ran from 2011 to 2015, in order to support Baghdad-based artists facing the damage done to the contemporary art infrastructure in Iraq after cycles of war, destruction, sanctions, and continual political insecurity.

Sahakian used a network of resources from the local context, region, and further afield to provide space of critical thinking and making. As she suggests, “Sada harnessed relational and digital networks that could be accessed by those who were creating through this transformative period of Iraq’s (and the world’s) conditions for living....”


[Quelle: https://web.archive.org/web/20211120080712/https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/lumbung-members-artists/sada-regroup/]