DECADE

A video installation of chronologically arranged and edited found footage for news broadcasts, including remixed and sampled music, lectures, and political speeches from the last ten years. While cosmopolitical in perspective, the project nonetheless focuses on particular moments within environmental and liberation movements, feminist and LGBTQI struggles, indigenous and decolonial histories, and border politics. Its intention is to make speculative connections between histories that are often viewed in isolation rather than as part of an intersectional network of mutually reinforcing and global processes. 

On 28 January, you can attend a conversation prompted by DECADE between artist Nikhil Vettukatil and cultural worker Marijana Cvetković. Marijana will discuss the current student and civil movement in Serbia, with an emphasis on strategies to defend the res publica against authoritarian, proto-fascist and anti-democratic use of public goods, common resources, public institutions and public space. Following the experience of her sister Sourour’s death in police custody, Soumaya will articulate the dynamics between police, protesters, and families of victims. She will address the forms of pressure and violence that emerge at the moment of death notification—particularly injunctions to “calm the crowds”—as well as the shifting of responsibility onto families in the face of potential unrest.

Conversation in English and French, moderated by Bojana Cvejić.

During the other events on 27 and 29 January, you can also view the video installation with your ticket for that day. Click here for the full programme of Figures of Fascism and Antifascist Solidarity.

• Nikhil Vettukattil is an artist living and working in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, their practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in relation to lived experience. They studied at Central St. Martins in London and the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, London, and are a founding member of the Institute for Scene Experiments. Recent exhibitions include Four Dilations (2025) at MoMA PS1, New York; DECADE (2025) at AGIT, Berlin; designofthetimes (2025) at 3236rls/Le Bourgeois, London; Defund the Police (2024) at Arcadia Missa, London; and Stipendutstilling (2024), Oslo Kunstforening.

• Marijana Cvetković is a producer, curator and lecturer. She is co-founder of Station Service for Contemporary Dance and Nomad Dance Academy, self-organised platforms dedicated to the development of contemporary dance and performing arts in post-Yugoslavia. She is also active as a cultural activist within Serbia's independent cultural scene, where she co-founded platforms such as druga scena, Cultural Centre Magacin, Association of Independent Culture of Serbia and Platform for the Commons “Zajedničko”.

• Soumaya Phéline Abouda is a sound artist, curator, and researcher. Since the death of her sister Sourour following contact with the police, she has used her position within cultural institutions as a critical tool, developing artistic projects and fundraisers that address questions of power, transmission, and memory. Soumaya explores ways of making these realities perceptible to non-activist audiences, seeking strategies of transmission through art, language, and creative practice, while emphasizing the importance of being present in the streets, building collectives, and gathering together, grounded in the belief that the more we are, the more our voices can be heard, in resistance to logics of division. As a member of ‘Justice pour Sourour’ and ‘Justice pour tous•tes’ committees, she actively campaigns against police violence.