LivePod: From Magasin III Jaffa with Eran Nissan on Activism and StoryTelling
This LivePodcast (the first ever of Shalompodden) was recorded at the exhibition "Looking Back at the Future" - Broadcasting Day Looking Ahead together with Radio 1540 kHz. It took place at Magasin III Jaffa the 13th of February 2025.
Eran Nissan is an Israeli peace activist. He is 34 years old, lives in Jaffa, and currently serves as the CEO of ‘Mehazkim‘, an Israeli progressive movement. Eran served as a combat soldier in the special forces of the Israeli military, and after his release, he decided to promote a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Eran’s political motivation is generational, as he believes that a conflict we pass on to our children is a conflict we lost. Eran headed the Education & Advocacy department in ‘Peace Now‘, Israel’s biggest and oldest peace movement advocating for the Two-State-Solution. Eran is also the Israeli regional coordinator for both ‘Solutions not Sides’, a British education programme for British youth which centres the voices and stories of Israeli and Palestinian change-makers, and ‘New Story Leadership’, which focus on equipping a new generation of Palestinian and Israeli leaders with the tools needed to create social, economic and political change in the region. In 2019 Eran interned in a congressional office in Washington D.C. as part of the ‘New Story Leadership’ summer internship program. Eran holds a B.A in political science & Philosophy, and an M.A. in Emergency & Disaster Management. Eran is also a certified dog trainer and a volunteer EMT and ambulance driver.
Link to the Phoenix Plan Mentioned in the conversation.
About the Broadcasting day:
A diverse lineup of artists, activists, climate and cultural researchers, and public institutions directors will take part in this series of discussions, including: Dr. Norma Musih, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Lisa Hanania, Mahmoud Abu Arisha, Sandra Weil, Jonatan Macznik, Eran Nissan, Shahd Bishara, Sivan Tahel, Moria Shlomot, Ali Al-Azhari, Hamody Gannam, Rami Younis, Ya׳ara Peretz, Dr. Muna Shaheen, Dr. Mariam Abd El Hay, Noam Shuster-Eliassi, Thalia Hoffman, Avital Barak, Omer Kriger, Hillel Roman, Amira Mohammed and Ibrahim Abu Ahmad.
The broadcast day is part of the group exhibition "Looking Back at the Future", currently on view at Magasin III Jaffa. The exhibition explores the necessity and ability to imagine alternative futures beyond our current reality. It focuses on the power of political imagination to shape the spectrum of possibilities before us and offers tools and a space for fostering a future based on equality, partnership, justice and democracy for all, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
This broadcasting day is edited by Karmit Galili, the exhibiton's curator and Ella Navot, captain of Radio1540kHz, a temporary broadcast station and research platform inspired by the pirate radio "Voice of Peace", which transmitted across the Mediterranean from 1973 to 1993.
About Magasin III Jaffa
Magasin III Jaffa is an exhibition space, a permanent satellite established by Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art from Stockholm, Sweden. Magasin III Jaffa’s diverse program features both local and international contemporary artists. Since opening at 2018, Magasin III Jaffa has presented solo exhibitions by Haim Steinbach, Shiela Hicks, Cosima von Bonin, Tal R, Maya Attoun, Polly Apfelbaum, David Adika and a group exhibition presenting Absalon, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Saher Miari and Shahar Yahalom. The space is located on 34 Olei Zion, in a residential neighborhood rich with history and cultural diversity, that borders with Jaffa’s famous flea market. Magasin III Jaffa’s unique architecture enables passersby to view the exhibitions from the outside, day and night.
About the exhibition:
The events of October 7th and the terrible war that broke out in their aftermath threw us into abysses of fear and despair, undermining any attempt to think about a better future or a future at all. We struggle to imagine a future that is not painted in the colors of war—internal as well as external; the disaster, which is still changing the face of the country and its people, interferes with our ability to entertain any vision of a common society based on freedom and equality.
In a country founded on a utopian vision and built in a continuous present of wars, occupation, and terrorism, it has never been easy to imagine a future that does not involve all of these. But the current crisis has introduced an urgent and vital need to imagine a different future, so that it would not be the ongoing disaster that determines our view of the future.
The group exhibition Looking Back at the Future turns to “former futures” created here in the last decade, in an attempt to reconstruct the ability to imagine a future, based on the rationale that if we cannot imagine the future, we will not be able to realize it. The four projects in the exhibition were created years ago, but they present a future that is still far from being realized, now perhaps even more so than when they were created. Albeit far from realization, they provide space for the imagination, not out of a need to wallow in the past, but in order to expand the horizon, and thereby open a door to any imaginary future and not only the ones described in them.
Shalompodden görs av Sandra Weil och Jonatan Macznik.
Shalompodden produceras med stöd av Familjen Robert Weils Stiftelse.
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