Image from Season of Return
Seasons of Return
Lecture Performance | 31 Aug | free entrance | free entranceSeasons of Return speaks of repeated journeys back to South Lebanon—journeys since halted by the ongoing Israeli occupation and destruction of over fifty villages.
The talk reflects on this rupture through the question of time, considering how occupation fractures temporal experience, producing parallel presents: one in which the South remains inaccessible yet insistently lived through memory, anticipation, and political imagination, and another in which life continues elsewhere while destruction and erasure persist across the occupied landscape. Return is understood not as a moment of arrival, but as an ongoing negotiation with and against these forces, inherited across generations. Situating this condition within a longer history of repeated imperial intervention, the talk traces how successive regimes of violence have inscribed power onto land, infrastructure, and everyday life. Yet it also asks how seasonal rhythms, agricultural cycles, and collective practices of care continue to shape relationships to place, even in its absence.
Batoul Faour is a visual artist and architect whose practice operates at the intersection of writing, drawing, and moving image. Her work examines the tensions between the material and metaphorical dimensions of land and space, bringing to light their often-overlooked histories and political entanglements.
Free EntranceThis event is organized in collaboration with the Scottish Documentary Institute.