The Book of Profanation

Overview

The Book of Profanation, exhibited here for the first time as an experimental prototype, is a compendium of recent projects by Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR), whose practice is centered around the future archeology of Israel’s occupation:How might the evacuated colonies and military bases be re-inhabited?

Historically, in the process of decolonization, the buildings and infrastructure of the colonial past continue to fulfill the function for which they were designed, thereby reproducing some of the former hierarchies into the postcolonial present. Rather than simply destroying or reusing these structures of power, DAAR’s architectural interventions aim to reorient the logic and politics of spaces built by the occupation.


2011

This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10

Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation