Artist Mounira Al Solh and editorial collective Qalqalah قلقلة embark on a joint research investigating forms of communal living; the production of feminist spaces and gestures; and the invention of rituals of care and grieving for the living and the dead accross multiple languages. It is anchored in the history of beguinage in Kortrijk and Belgium and its contemporary reactivations. This investigation will lead to the edition of the 5th issue of NOA (Not Only Arabic), a performative magazine initiated by Mounira Al Solh, via a series of encounters and workshops in Buda.

Qalqalah قلقلة & Mounira Al Solh (FR/LB/NL/MA/SY)

Qalqalah قلقلة is an editorial and curatorial platform, founded in France in 2018. It is dedicated to the production, translation and circulation of artistic, theoretical and literary research in French, Arabic and English. For this project, it is represented by Line Ajan, Virginie Bobin and Salma Mochtari.

Mounira Al Solh is a visual artist embracing video and video installations, painting and drawing, embroidery, and performative gestures. Narration, story-telling are engaged and committed to an ongoing witnessing in feminist issues, wars, languages and mother-tongues, migrations, and a constant search for the self, as part or as opposed to social and cultural obligations and imposed contexts. She lives and works between Lebanon and The Netherlands.