Taklif : تکلیف is an imaginary space and a traveling library for radical imagination dedicated to learning, unlearning, and relearning practices through art and dialogue; an artist-run initiative formed with the ambition to rigorously bridge our intellectual activities with our emotional embodied intuitions, within and beyond institutional settings.
Taklif : تکلیف is homework — processes of learning, unlearning, and relearning within an imaginary space, in which our attempts to escape finally cease through our fugitive practices of togetherness.
Taklif : تکلیف is responsibility, as we study institutional and
organizational frameworks, rhetorics, and behaviours that perpetuate the marginalization and the subjugation of the marginalized.
organizational frameworks, rhetorics, and behaviours that perpetuate the marginalization and the subjugation of the marginalized.
Taklif : تکلیف is fate, where the entangled possibilities cross each other, in resisting the promises of belonging we heard
through our precarious passages of home-leaving.
through our precarious passages of home-leaving.
Taklif : تکلیف believes our principles are only valid once we remember the unceded lands on which we dwell, study, read, write, and work.
Art, foremost, as a practice: Taklif.
For Taklif, art is neither the fabrication of a lie nor a quest for the truth; art can only happen with work. Not a professional work, but rather a home-work...a draft, as a draft.