Vivien Sansour Explained

Education:East Carolina University
Vivien Sansour
Birth Place:Jerusalem

Vivien Sansour (born 1978), is a Palestinian visual artist and founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library.[1] Her international work bridges between art, activism, botany, and conservation. Her work has been profiled by the BBC[2] and included at exhibitions and events at the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK),[3] the Chicago Architecture Biennale,[4] and the Venice Biennale.[5]

Early life and education

Sansour spent her childhood between the US and Beit Jala in the West Bank, where her interest in biological diversity was born.[6] In 2021–2022, Sansour was a Research Fellow in Conflict and Peace at Harvard University[7] and is a distinguished artistic fellow at Bard College's Experimental Humanities department.[8]

Key projects

The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library (2014–ongoing) preserves and promotes heritage and threatened seed varieties as well as traditional Palestinian farming practices. Through these methods cultural stories, and the identities associated with them are also preserved and shared.[9]

The Traveling Kitchen, (2018) is an extension of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, made in collaboration with Ayed Arafah. A mobile kitchen in the back of a car, the artwork opens conversations about agro-ecology, food heritage and the relationships between fields and kitchens.[10]

Zaree’a: On the work and legacy of Esiah Levy, London, 2019. Esiah Levy was a British seed saver and seed activist, founding a seed sharing project that distributed organic seeds around the world. Sansour worked with him during a residency at Delfina Foundation, London, in 2019, part of their Politics of Food season, creating a film about his work.[11]

Publications

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bauck . Whitney . 'They kept us alive for thousands of years': could saving Palestinian seeds also save the world? . 2024-04-30 . the Guardian . en.
  2. Web site: The woman saving Palestinian heirloom seeds . 2024-04-30 . www.bbc.com.
  3. News: Higgie . Jennifer . 2019-08-19 . Writer and Activist Vivien Sansour on Food, Farming, Heritage and Healing . 2024-04-30 . Frieze . en . 205 . 0962-0672.
  4. Web site: Chicago Biennial: the undeniable power of architecture . 2024-04-30 . www.ft.com.
  5. Web site: 2019-11-14 . Biennale Arte 2019 Closing day of the Biennale Arte 2019 . 2024-04-30 . La Biennale di Venezia . en.
  6. Web site: Bierend . Doug . 2024-01-08 . The Resilience of Rooted Beings . 2024-04-30 . MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food . en-US.
  7. Web site: Vivien Sansour . 2024-04-30 . rpl.hds.harvard.edu . en.
  8. Web site: Vivien Sansour . 2024-04-30 . Experimental Humanities . en-US.
  9. Web site: Bauck . Whitney . 'They kept us alive for thousands of years': could saving Palestinian seeds also save the world? . 2024-04-30 . the Guardian . en.
  10. News: Higgie . Jennifer . 2019-08-19 . Writer and Activist Vivien Sansour on Food, Farming, Heritage and Healing . 2024-04-30 . Frieze . en . 205 . 0962-0672.
  11. Web site: Vivien Sansour: Zaree'a . 2024-04-30 . Delfina Foundation . en-US.
  12. Web site: Murray . Hubert . June 2021 . Landscape as Resistance in the West Bank . 2024-05-02 . Places Journal.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Vivien Sansour".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.