Bahaleen

Palestinian research group

Bahaleen is a group of friends, sometimes colleagues, and often collaborators who are Palestinian artists, architects, surveyors, calligraphers, and researchers based in Jordan. Together, they are a research group dedicated to exploring the emancipatory potentials of arts practice through a constellation of acts, projects, and productions.

In recent years, Bahaleen has been engaged in several multi-year independent research projects that circle around notions of temporality, crossing borders, and impermanent-permanent infrastructures. Through a series of roaming residencies, they search for, name, and subvert narratives around water bodies, tourist projects, nature reserves, privatized property, and the commons through the practice of creating databases of projects, laws, and political agreements that have commercialized, privatized, and militarized the soil.