Mirna Bamieh's Lecture at Tate Modern

Saturday, 15 November | 18:30–19:30

Lecture-Performance
The Empty Seat at the Table: Reflections on the Work of Palestine Hosting Society

 

Presented as part of the Tate Modern Conference
Ancestral Knowledges: My Grandmother is My School
14–16 November 2025

 

This lecture-performance by Mirna Bamieh weaves together storytelling, archival research, and acts of radical hospitality. Emerging the artist’s long-term projects Palestine Hosting Society and Sour Things, it reflects on food as a site of disappearance and endurance. Bamieh invites audiences to consider how cooking, preserving and remembering can open a space for mourning, resilience and the imagination of a different future.

Followed by an audience Q&A moderated by Nabila Abdel Nabi, Senior Curator, International Art (Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational).