The Prision as a Revolucionary School
Colectivos Pláka
24.11 — 27.11.2026
Seminars by
Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Adam HajYahia, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Organised by
Bilna'es
Venues
Galeria Municipal do Porto, Fonoteca Municipal do Porto, O Lugar da Palmilha Dentrada
Language
English
Registration fee
25€
Discounts (50%)
Porto. Card holders; Over 65s; Arts and Culture professionals; Unemployed people; Porto City Council and Municipal Companies Workers
Applications
Until November 9. By e-mail (to plaka@agoraporto.pt) with the following information: Name, contact, short motivational passage about why you would like to participate (between 150 and 250 words). The participation is limited to 14 participants. The selection will be made by the course tutors.
The Prison as a Revolutionary School explores land struggles and the ways they are shaped by, and waged against, the production of enclosures and carceral systems. Particular attention will be given to prison struggles as they emerge through literature, prison writing, song, and prisoners’ art. It asks: What are the relationships between incarceration and colonialism, and between the production of bodies and the production of property, territory, and enclosure?
Taking Palestine as an incomplete carceral geography and extending this inquiry through histories of prison riots in the United States and other colonial contexts, the school examines the entanglements of colonialism, incarceration, capitalism, and raciality.
The Prison as a Revolutionary School attends to the material, metaphysical, and institutional formations through which these forces operate, as well as the forms of insurgency and militant sociality through which they are contested, disrupted, and refused.
The school is open to artists, scholars, students, writers, and organizers of all ages, and engages these questions from an a-disciplinary approach incorporating poetic and scholarly texts, manifestoes, sound, film, and other aesthetic forms.
The study sessions will require some prior reading before the beginning of the session and collective reading during the sessions.
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