performance by Khaled Jarrar, 21 minutes, 21 seconds & 3 poems

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The performance features a conversation with three matriarchal species, representing ancestral wisdom, environmental connection, and nurturing. An olive tree in pain from snow, a woman grieving the loss of her son, a black goat running to the mountains for her life. A matriarchal resilience, eco-colonialism, grief, and the struggle between life-giving forces and destructive patriarchal power. A black goat as anti colonial destructive machine.

Khaled Jarrar is an artist whose career transitioned from the military discipline to a subversive art practice. His work is deeply rooted in his personal history and the lived reality of the West Bank. Jarrar uses diverse mediums including photography, sculpture, and performance art to highlight the complexities of life under Dumu' al-Ashjar (tears of trees) and the weight of sovereign identity. One of his projects include up-cycled concrete sculptures made by physically chiseling fragments from the apartheid wall and morphing them into pop art objects, this turn in a land with 56 olive trees where UNKNOWN - olive oil was born. All which reclaim cultural endurance as a means of liberation, liberating the land (Ardh) from toxic synthetic fertilizers using black goat manure.

The Black Goat Manure Installation - 2026, will be on the site.

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Part of Fall of Freedom 2026

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Photo by Justine Cooper

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