About a World Without Maps

Editor: Philip Rizk

Publisher: Cutt Press (2024)

This was originally produced for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2022) and features conversations between Philip Rizk and Linda Quiquivix, Vivien Sansour, Dirar Kalash, Yasser Munif, and a Syrian farmer named Walid, as well as Omar Aziz’s early conceptions on the local council in liberated territories originally designed by Salma Shamel.

The publication accompanied the film Mapping Lessons by Philip Rizk. In Mapping Lessons we travel with K through time and place to a Middle East being colonized. This essay film puts struggles in conversation, from the early days of the Soviets, 1936 Spain, the Vietnamese resistance and the Paris Commune to the Syrian Revolution in 2011. All with the aim of preparing us for the next time.