About Guava and Political Imagination

A political imagination workshop led by Moran Barir, and a conversation with Thalia Hoffman about her film Guava.
Limited availability, please register here
*The conversation and the workshop will be held in Hebrew

It is very difficult to imagine, let alone create change amid an ongoing external and internal war that sows fear and uncertainty.

On Friday, November 1, at 11:00 AM, please join Thalia Hoffman and Moran Barir for a shared viewing of Thalia Hoffman’s film Guava, featured in the exhibition Looking Back at the Future at Magasin III Jaffa, and a conversation exploring how our recollection of the past influences the possibility of creating a different future. The conversation will be followed by a practical workshop led by Moran Barir, where we will practice our imagination to create a positive and desired vision of the future, free from the constraints of reality.

Imagining a better future is not an escape from reality; it is an act of resistance and liberation—resistance to a reality of injustices and oppression, and liberation of the mind from intellectual suppression. Political imagination—and the ability to train it—are tools in the struggle for change. Through imaginative practice, we will envision the future we wish to create and gather information to refine our paths toward that future. The exhibition Looking Back at the Future examines our capacity to envision a future within a challenging reality, and the workshop is an invitation to train our political imagination and liberate our individual and collective vision from the various forces acting upon it.

Moran Barir – Group facilitator, video creator, and activist. She works with civil society organizations and expands political imagination through means such as transitional justice, video activism, and Jewish-Palestinian dialogue. She works at The School for Peace in Neve Shalom and serves as the chairman of the board of Zochrot.

Thalia Hoffman – Thalia Hoffman is a visual artist and researcher working in film, video, performance, and public interventions in the area where she lives, east of the Mediterranean. Alongside her artistic actions, Hoffman holds a PhD in artistic research from Leiden University and is a lecturer at the University of Haifa in video, performance, and artistic research. Her work strives to be involved in its surroundings and engages people to look, listen and feel their socio-political landscape with attention. 
Hoffman’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and festivals in Israel and abroad, including Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Haifa Museum of Art; Mamuta Art & Research Center, Jerusalem; Beit HaGefen Gallery, Haifa; Jerusalem Film Festival; Experiments in Cinema Festival, New Mexico; Aesthetica Short Film Festival, England and Cairo Video Festival.