Atelier Céladon

Taklif : تکلیف co-presents Archive Acts, a publication in collaboration with Atelier Céladon. This project aims at imagining the common ground between the temporal territories shared by the dispersed diasporas of people of colour, alienated under the immediacy of the present. The displaced subject always meditates through the logic of settlement, while being temporally distanced in the immediate order of time. The interior of their dwelling-in-displacement is furnished with dwelling-in-dischronotopicality. Unsettled between the local and extralocal, therefore, they are subject to the vagaries of time and history. The collation of diasporic memory is anachronous; time-lapsed and rendered between their here and there. This publication has featured works and ideas that put personal and collective archiving at the heart of their creative process, through which  they responded to the concepts of historical/temporal distance and instantaneity in relation to (their) diasporic imaginaries.

Taklif : تکلیف is a non-affirmative artist-run initiative formed with the ambition to rigorously bridge the intellectual activities of the disquiets with their emotional embodied intuitions, within and without the institutional settings.  

Taklif is homework; processes of (un)learning within an imaginary space, in which our attempts to escape finally cease through our fugitive practices of togetherness.
Taklif is pain; the affective difference in our disoriented collective bodies.
Taklif is responsibility; as we study institutional and organizational frameworks, rhetorics, and behaviours that perpetuate the subjugation of the Black, the Indigenous, and the People of Colour.
Taklif is cost; the kind that escapes the world of market through vigilante modes of sharing and generosity, the cost that gifts are made of.
Taklif is fate; where the entangled possibilities cross each other.

Taklif : تکلیف believes our principles are only valid once we acknowledge the status of Kanien'kehá:ka lands as occupied and colonized Indigenous territories on which we dwell, think, read, write and work.