Professor Gil Hochberg's "Becoming Palestine" in Conversation with Prof Ziad Abu-Rish and Prof Diana Greenwald

Gil Z. Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University and author of Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone, also published by Duke University Press, and In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination.

In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically imagine Palestine's future. She shows how artists such as Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa Sansour and others reimagine the archive, approaching it not through the desire to unearth hidden knowledge, but to sever the identification of the archive with the past. Hochberg urges readers to think about archives as a break from history rather than as history's repository, presenting a fundamental reconceptualization of the archive's liberatory potential.

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