https://nouratafeche.com Noura Tafeche Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:57:01 +0000 https://nouratafeche.com en http://nouratafeche.com/Onomaturgia-per-un-Aspirante-Lotta-di-Classe Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:57:01 +0000 Noura Tafeche 459180 Onomaturgia per un’Aspirante Lotta di Classe Primizie 🍎&nbsp; Salgemma Precarietà, produttività, flessibilità, contratto a chiamata, CEO, burnout, smart working…Quante e quali parole definiscono oggi la nostra esperienza lavorativa?Quante parole abbiamo a disposizione per descrivere le strutture di potere che attraversano i sistemi economici, sociali e produttivi del contesto lavorativo contemporaneo?Entro quali geografie si muovono questi processi, e come si storicizzano nei corpi, nelle vite e nelle abitudini di chi lavora? Con quali termini lavoratrici, freelance, operatrici e operatori culturali e non solo raccontano le proprie esperienze, le condizioni materiali, o denunciano le disuguaglianze e le mancanze di tutela che definiscono la nostra epoca? Quali parole utilizziamo (o quali abbiamo perduto) per parlare di quella tensione collettiva che un tempo chiamavamo lotta di classe? Come definiremmo il ricatto dell’identificazione totale con la carriera? I ridicoli appellativi anglofoni delle gerarchie aziendali ? È un limite o un vantaggio che la maggior parte delle riflessioni critiche sul lavoro, sulla precarietà e sulle nuove forme di sfruttamento cognitivo ed economico, arrivi a noi attraverso anglicismi che spesso disinnescano il potenziale politico delle parole e ne smussano l’urgenza? Con il laboratorio di onomaturgia desideriamo accendere un dibattito in lingua italiana sul lessico del lavoro&nbsp;e sulla sua capacità (o incapacità) di nominare&nbsp;il&nbsp;conflitto, la fatica, la cooperazione e il desiderio di trasformazione.Attraverseremo ciò che accade dentro le grandi catene produttive globali alle periferie del lavoro precario, per rintracciare le parole — ancora da inventare — che possano restituire forza, intervento e dignità alle nostre esperienze lavorative, modellando con maggiore precisione i nostri diritti e i nostri desideri. Il laboratorio mira a individuare e nominare le asimmetrie, le posture di potere, le forme di sfruttamento e le strategie di resistenza&nbsp;che caratterizzano il&nbsp;lavoro contemporaneo, ma anche a&nbsp;immaginare nuove possibilità di alleanza e solidarietà.Un piccolo prontuario sperimentale di smontaggio e riassemblaggio: coniare parole nuove per&nbsp; rinnovare sensibilità e bisogni individuali o collettivi, diversificare strumenti di analisi, stimolare nuovi dibattiti, e smantellare comportamenti, discorsi o gerarchie ancora poco (o forse fin troppo) familiari. Onomaturgia per un’Aspirante Lotta di Classe Primizie 🍎&nbsp; Salgemma Precarietà, produttività, flessibilità, contratto a chiamata, CEO, burnout, smart... http://nouratafeche.com/Flora-Saraya Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:00:14 +0000 Noura Tafeche 459152 Flora Sarāyā 2024<img width="1772" height="3007" width_o="1772" height_o="3007" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3a68ab4cd455602d3021be67f00ff606ceee71d755c1a9ae968bf714a2c21baf/Noura-Tafeche---Flora-Saraya.png" data-mid="1432123" border="0" data-scale="100"/> &nbsp;المقاومة ستزهر دائمًا لأنها زهرة أرضنا Resistance will always bloom, because it is the flower of our land. Each flower depicted belongs to a species endemic (native) to Palestine, including Akkub, Rheum, Iris Faqqua, and Khubbez. <img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6177bc952073676c23e9da942ec84e1a712c71a131b6ddf4e4351a95f8c03abf/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1432128" border="0" /> <img width="1438" height="806" width_o="1438" height_o="806" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f3f7e718564beac4b4d39f3ca2cb2d76a17f7f2f0dfc49d69277622bd9657b72/Immagine-2026-02-13-155032.png" data-mid="1432127" border="0" data-scale="70"/>Still : Short documentary on women fighters in the DFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine), September 2022. Original videos posted by @anarcho.communism (deactivated/banned as of 2026) and @cheguwera Resistance News Network | Women’s units of the DFLP’s National Resistance Brigades (Martyr Omar al-Qasim Forces) carry out a military training exercise in the Gaza Strip on the 54th anniversary of the launch of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.A look into the women’s units of the National Resistance Brigades, also known as the Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.<img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6177bc952073676c23e9da942ec84e1a712c71a131b6ddf4e4351a95f8c03abf/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1432128" border="0" /> Drawing made on commission for my beloved uncle, who organized an exhibition in Damascus.Not for sale or anything commercial, it’s just here to celebrate what it deserves to be celebrated.💚 Back HOME Flora Sarāyā 2024 &nbsp;المقاومة ستزهر دائمًا لأنها زهرة أرضنا Resistance will always bloom, because it is the flower of... http://nouratafeche.com/Irelundi-prima-della-Tempesta Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:21:24 +0000 Noura Tafeche 459114 Irelundi prima della Tempesta Irelundi before the Storm 2025 Commissioned by Sprint MilanoDigital manipulation and internet appropriation Paper billboard 600x300cm <img width="3543" height="1813" width_o="3543" height_o="1813" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/81d8aff83022ebf7bc75ed3bf20f9c290fee681130c922ca422c8634b3e4a639/Irelundi-prima-della-tempesta---Noura-Tafeche.png" data-mid="1431658" border="0" /> Irelundi is a speculative neologism envisioning the voluntary extinction of human verbal language, both spoken and written. It represents a dystopian communicative collapse where speaking or writing causes more harm than understanding. A self-reflective word, Irelundi hypothetically decrees its own end. This artwork calls into question semiotics and the visual collapse given by an excess of images. <img width="2992" height="2992" width_o="2992" height_o="2992" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/de15993b6a8e4d9b81f38fbe3a47e0a5a93d4a12e9f88a93ede10c7c70757165/Irelundi-1.png" data-mid="1431661" border="0" /> <img width="2132" height="2132" width_o="2132" height_o="2132" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4b53e74e6abba3525efe0fc9e1f84f2dfc85a187c31d81fcb82df3a8b2ac98b3/Irelundi-4.png" data-mid="1431675" border="0" /> <img width="503" height="503" width_o="503" height_o="503" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fec3f952e6e64e58feac297bc1c828af001eb6964358706abb0b23af1328fb5e/Irelundi-3.png" data-mid="1431663" border="0" /><img width="2399" height="2399" width_o="2399" height_o="2399" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/241735d09d66310c0adf5ae3aaa86bb83aba477af7176f3658a83f5c209abf79/Irelundi-2.png" data-mid="1431676" border="0" /> ci dobbiamo dire la verità, le internet aesthetics sono necrotizzate indisturbata, si svolge una catastrofe comunicativa ci affezioniamo e stufiamo velocemente a slops, rots e cores. mi chiedo come non sia mai messa in discussione l&gt;appiattente, egemone, lingua franca di merda su internet, l&gt;inglese si merita di essere parlato male. l&gt;unica luce che mi restituisce immaginazione e vita é la Resistenza Armata Palestinese&nbsp; المجد للمقاومة الفلسطينية (Gloria alla resistenza palestinese) Tutto il resto, proprio come quello che compone questa grottesca folla sovraeccitante e megalomane, è solo rumore bianco che popola il vuoto mentre il collasso semiotico avanza We have to tell each other the truth:Internet aesthetics are necrotized without interference; a communicative catastrophe unfolds.We quickly get attached to—and bored of—slops, rots, and cores.I wonder how it has never been questioned:the flattening, hegemonic, shitty lingua franca of the internet,English deserves to be spoken badly.The only light that gives me imagination and lifeis the Palestinian Armed Resistance المجد للمقاومة الفلسطينية (Glory to the Palestinian resistance).Everything else, just like what makes up thisgrotesque, overexcited, megalomaniac crowd,is just white noise filling the void while semiotic collapse advances. <img width="7691" height="5130" width_o="7691" height_o="5130" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/df5f87dc32de6a137f7705c8f69503ed87478394e140b487bf301a26fc232003/SPRINT_2025_01.jpg" data-mid="1431644" border="0" /><img width="3543" height="2363" width_o="3543" height_o="2363" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6ab9df831aee1b29cacb8fa78bd16182f51628a39f962eda2c13a929263b4a2f/SPRINT_2025_03_edit.png" data-mid="1431671" border="0" /> Ph Riccardo Giancola &amp; Tiziano Ercoli <img width="3470" height="4337" width_o="3470" height_o="4337" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c9aff50b0b4a274b812de77f050bd6fe26f6f14ac8956ba0ace3a582384719fb/SPRINT25_SM.jpg" data-mid="1431625" border="0" /> Special thanks to SPRINT / artist–led project supported by the non–profit associations O’ and GALATTICA and to The Models Resource. Given the declared appliance of appropriation of online material this artwork is not intended for any commercial-use. Credits of 3D sprites’ artists (in progress)&nbsp; : Fire flower by dogtoon64, Cloud flower by peardian, Banana flower peardian, Red flower by senjen,Aladdin (Prince) by aldern,&nbsp;Aladdin carpet by Centrixe the Dodo,&nbsp; Yasmine (lilac) by Centrixe The Dodo, Yasmine (aquamarine) by roxas358, Abu by roxas358 Aladdin by roxas358, Waluigi’s Rose by&nbsp;mremerald2006 <img width="448" height="511" width_o="448" height_o="511" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ad515d3e96ff7b24b540d3488fb8ad18a40e25f2332f2c66332d42f616e6e08c/Immagine-2026-02-09-231712.png" data-mid="1431674" border="0" data-scale="15"/> Back HOME Irelundi prima della Tempesta Irelundi before the Storm 2025 Commissioned by Sprint MilanoDigital manipulation and internet appropriation Paper billboard ... http://nouratafeche.com/Gijinka-Complex Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:29:28 +0000 Noura Tafeche 459113 <img width="591" height="250" width_o="591" height_o="250" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0f006a098c328cfe568a1c3b59e98a8f53dcc7fdbb99fb107473a58857f5499e/LOGO-COLORATO-per-banner-gioco.png" data-mid="1431608" border="0" data-scale="50"/>Visual Novel by Noura Tafeche &amp; Tobia Paolo Bettoni 2025 <img width="794" height="625" width_o="794" height_o="625" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/55b55e46a6008c74b05b47a7d6c49bb703226ace0546e502b21323be13715143/UZ52IA.png" data-mid="1431615" border="0" /><img width="794" height="625" width_o="794" height_o="625" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e4ac5cef72edf2dc5f82bd5092076061e2b3f373d5fbb7abc6d0a84629be4736/F7OQX4.png" data-mid="1431614" border="0" /><img width="794" height="625" width_o="794" height_o="625" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/26af3a633b766c775194ad6b3896aecce1d63586ad6721c860242bd2669716d3/6NBwHo.png" data-mid="1431613" border="0" /> A dating-sim parody where weapon systems become cute yet disturbing characters. Borrowing the shiny style of early 2000s galge, the game exposes the emotional and political entanglement of global military power by letting players date – or refuse – anthropomorphized weapons. Gijinka ComplexDEMO delves into how desire and institutionalized violence intersect, and how large-scale systems shape our perception through the visual codes of contemporary media culture. This project reinvents this complex as a biting parody of a Japanese dating sim, where weapon systems become seductive, unsettling, intensely eroticized characters. The player encounters anthropomorphized figures of military technologies—gijinkas, as they are known in otaku culture—whose attraction, ambiguity, or rejection become ways of experiencing the relationship to these power infrastructures. The player takes on the role of a UN observer tasked with reporting on these anthropomorphized weapons as they navigate “Israel” and the wider international economy of genocide. Through the gaming experience, we seek to make visible the networks of complicity that fuel the military-industrial complex, both in “Israel” and globally, and to provide a tangible and emotional experience of the usually abstract systemic mechanics. Gijinka Complex is conceived to be released on itch.io, a popular online gaming platform. Its NSFW content is deliberately used as a form of bait, attracting unaware users and functioning as a Trojan horse: a seductive entry point that subverts expectations and exposes players to genocide, its violations, leading to horrific reflection on desire, power, and militarized visual culture. Play Gijinka Complex DEMO Gijinka Complex DEMO by Noura Tafeche &amp; Tobia Paolo Bettoni <img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1101c68e1a247606e53bbd407349d76cc095112fc9dc03d260b2b042ee947a1e/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1431616" border="0" /><img width="3682" height="2477" width_o="3682" height_o="2477" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4fde925b4ce962090c36059dc4d39e5d1249538a3fcf06956748bf2b3507a658/TafecheandBettoni_GijinkaComplex_Adira_folderstyle.png" data-mid="1431618" border="0" /><img width="3682" height="2477" width_o="3682" height_o="2477" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d5f4b11bb71068d8fe3c02e4adb929ca1860007995832a24b540cf2187ee2d2d/TafecheandBettoni_GijinkaComplex_Barak_folderstyle.png" data-mid="1431617" border="0" /><img width="3682" height="2477" width_o="3682" height_o="2477" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c9d97907b377595de632b4fe2e55861ecfd6d59a8cb2a9d8f8de5b7adc72ba6e/TafecheandBettoni_GijinkaComplex_Kochavit_folderstyle.png" data-mid="1431623" border="0" />Game Direction – Noura Tafeche &amp; Tobia Paolo Bettoni Game Illustrations – Silvia Anna Gnocchi Character Design – Tobia Paolo Bettoni, Noura Tafeche &amp; Silvia Anna Gnocchi Logo Design – Pierfrancesco Asuni <img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1101c68e1a247606e53bbd407349d76cc095112fc9dc03d260b2b042ee947a1e/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1431616" border="0" /> <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b085e469203edfd3d5aeb121037d3466d321288f2080faffeb0305a2de753f3a/2025_EXPO-LE-COMMUN_FOR-THE-WIN_0128.jpg" data-mid="1431818" border="0" /> Ph Sandra Pointet Gijinka Complex is originally commissioned for the 2025 edition of the Art, Jeu &amp; Société BiennaleSide Quest for the Real by For The Win, curated by Christian Bili and Samuel Wagen-Magnon. On show 2 – 21 December 2025, Le Commun, Geneva. <img width="1918" height="867" width_o="1918" height_o="867" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f5dccc8aa7fd23d7187ec88292e0524afad3a5d8fe64a3271ad5fd52211bdcfc/Immagine-2026-02-09-193251.png" data-mid="1431607" border="0" /> Featured at the 7th edition of the Wrong Biennale as part of The Chatroom &amp; The Dollhouse, curated by Sarah Khadra Hasni and Joshua Esser.Hybrid pavillion (Online/SomoS Berlin 3 – 14 March 2026).<img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1101c68e1a247606e53bbd407349d76cc095112fc9dc03d260b2b042ee947a1e/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1431616" border="0" /> Please note that this is an EARLY demo developed between the second half of October and November 2025. The game resolution (800:600) was chosen for technical AND artistic reasons. While in its "installation version" the game cannot be displayed in full-screen mode—because the desktop also contributes to the artwork by containing interactive elements— this web port has the afromentioned option enabled for enhanced accessibility. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="3508" height="2481" width_o="3508" height_o="2481" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/40fb842dfe8ea4047d20e365476ce0900c34a2f88ab399c9c5ef9abc7d2a5afa/IMG_0176.png" data-mid="1431609" border="0" data-scale="30"/>Back&nbsp; HOME Visual Novel by Noura Tafeche &amp; Tobia Paolo Bettoni 2025 A dating-sim parody where weapon systems become cute yet disturbing characters. Borrowing the shiny... http://nouratafeche.com/Corso-Accelerato-di-Degrado-Visuale Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:29:35 +0000 Noura Tafeche 457814 Corso Accelerato di Degrado Visuale Accellerated Course of Visual Degradation commissioned by Short Theatre Key visual and visual identity design for Short Theatre, an international performing arts festival held in Rome from September 5 to 14, 2025, marking its 20th edition. Pencils on paper, digital manipulation <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f68b036ee85acae5b04b5c76544c47b85e40dc571e245d81df59851278d96ef4/Carosello-IG-0.png" data-mid="1431595" border="0" />&nbsp; Every image is a slow re-chewing of what has already been impulsively produced, posted, shared, archived, or forgotten by someone else. We live in the most image-saturated moment in history, and the images in this work do not claim to be new — and who knows whether we will ever truly be able to produce new ones again. Their re-staging adds nothing; rather, it proposes a recomposed overcrowding of a common experience: scrolling alone through an infinite feed and being overwhelmed by it. It is a landscape thick with unresolved presences: afflicted emojis, fires, holograms, desires waiting to be fulfilled, memories of lost screenshots, warnings of justice, desperate attempts to grasp a zeitgeist.It neither represents nor asserts: it is an infestation.It does not seek synthesis, it lets certain invisible connections emerge on their own. This work has been built over time, through concealment, revelation, and accumulation, in the effort to hold onto an intuition, in the same way one tries to remember what remains at the end of an endless scroll. <img width="1772" height="2217" width_o="1772" height_o="2217" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7251f07815eba44657e63f4949f6fab938f368c0a77033620d7d10dd80a51c64/Carosello-IG-1.png" data-mid="1431599" border="0" /><img width="1772" height="2208" width_o="1772" height_o="2208" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4eda6937b5d87312dce1c78de5dc6c0d3645a7c8143daea7c3b428dd7132f16d/Carosello-IG-3.png" data-mid="1431596" border="0" /><img width="1772" height="2212" width_o="1772" height_o="2212" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4410d071bcde78825c2b44b25846f04783f6699d15c01b144673dacb2511ec18/Carosello-IG-5.png" data-mid="1431600" border="0" /> <img width="1772" height="2232" width_o="1772" height_o="2232" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/25b3779476157bcab65fdaedd3301e69769b877843ac142ee2ac91e5e2fe1985/Carosello-IG-2.png" data-mid="1431597" border="0" /><img width="1772" height="2204" width_o="1772" height_o="2204" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/54b559345bc19cf740070c32e534bfdc9746d8d15bf4505f9f1c2796534f3ee0/Carosello-IG-4.png" data-mid="1431598" border="0" /> <img width="1772" height="2204" width_o="1772" height_o="2204" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/404f95d0d037111732bf99ce103799c18dec1ac6f662e982dd396f3b3e6e9bbb/Carosello-IG-6.png" data-mid="1431601" border="0" /> “In 2025 Short Theatre invents another space, besides the stage, to host the work of Noura Tafeche, visual artist, onomaturge and independent researcher. Noura Tafeche is working on an iconosphere that emerges from a dialogue with the festival, starting with shared words and desires, which ST25 takes as its own visual statement. A table full of presences from the digital and material world, taken from the web and drawn by hand, is emerging, which will gradually be revealed” City of Rome official&nbsp;press <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1addbea02f75fb67a430ce3ab43f255d6d7d7bc671ecb264567366cf1c350119/Short-5_9_2025-8212.jpg" data-mid="1431606" border="0" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d5c099108fa459a8b688abd83d5aec324d2ec0d1ed826202d8ba16ea97f7fd35/Short-5_9_2025-8207.jpg" data-mid="1431605" border="0" /> Ph Credits : Claudia Pajewski / Short Theatre 2025 Alongside the visual identity, Tafeche presented a lecture performance as part of the festival programme, expanding the graphic project into a live, discursive format. The text of the lecture performance was later published by Nero Editions IMMAGINI CHE FANNO AMMALARE. <img width="478" height="102" width_o="478" height_o="102" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/61b0ecc9ffcbe9e868b37222d2016e26d19cdfbf8ba9c4bba0e6eb1bf2ea36d4/Noura-Tafeche---temperatura.png" data-mid="1431602" border="0" data-scale="30"/> BackHOME Corso Accelerato di Degrado Visuale Accellerated Course of Visual Degradation commissioned by Short Theatre Key visual and visual identity design for Short... http://nouratafeche.com/The-Kawayoku-Inception-video-essay Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:05:57 +0000 Noura Tafeche 457188 The Kawayoku Inception&nbsp;video-essay Released on September 26th, 2023 THE VOID | Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam <img width="1536" height="775" width_o="1536" height_o="775" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/89b291a216318712c3a0932ea465eeb6218356ce8d1569cdaae7a196d8816b9a/kawayoku3-1536x775.png" data-mid="1411470" border="0" /> Directed: Noura TafecheEdited: Tommaso CampagnaPublished by THE VOID (Insitute of Network Cultures), Amsterdam 2023.This video is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.) Watch on THE VOID <img width="1520" height="790" width_o="1520" height_o="790" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5aa4bc6a6d05bfd027658aa2c46399f76f10e7352da648fac73eecfded6bdf5e/Immagine-2025-06-23-211552.png" data-mid="1411465" border="0" /><img width="1520" height="790" width_o="1520" height_o="790" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1ddaf01070ec2e90fc531ca63d9506b0087e49faacc51892e179779e57134c53/Immagine-2025-06-23-211552.png" data-mid="1411468" border="0" />Stills from video <img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/94c5174cd346068e06a4ef29f6209e3713867e6e3ebe068dd1b2b142ca5f7c06/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1411472" border="0" /> A limited edition video-essay recorded on vintage VHS has been released on Metalabel <img width="3616" height="3508" width_o="3616" height_o="3508" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0f2affe56cffb4a3867c81330e5e46c2a7b9e73717c353c69ed8520d981a83f7/QmZ87GXmot6dZjY3Q1VBV43tZ2MCrcq3jrBkUk9DWKxVbv.jpeg" data-mid="1411469" border="0" data-scale="50"/> BackHOME The Kawayoku Inception&nbsp;video-essay Released on September 26th, 2023 THE VOID | Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam Directed: Noura TafecheEdited:... http://nouratafeche.com/The-Internet-is-a-Horrible-Place-and-I-m-Here-to-Make-it-Worse Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:42:24 +0000 Noura Tafeche 457185 The Internet is a Horrible Place and I’m Here to Make it Worse Series of Laboratories 2022 - ongoing The workshop takes inspiration from The Kawayoku Inception, a project delving into the political-artistic value of cuteness and the permanent status of performativity and hypersexualization on social media, as agents of a growing trend of aestheticization of violence. The project aims to shape under new taxonomies contemporary digital evanescence, visual reformulation of violence, unconventional recruiting strategies and militarized entertainment. Areas of research explore Israeli and US military propaganda and recruiting strategies translated into dance choreographies and challenges, weeb alt-right incel imaginary intertwined with cute manga fan-art and gaming and 2nd Amendment, pro-gun, war enthusiasts or armies employing anime and kawaii aesthetics. Out of this research, accomplished over three years on popular social media and remote online micro communities, an ongoing archive was built to catalogue nearly 30.000 files (screenshots, memes, posts, videos, etc) with a “geographic map” of digital platforms where the phenomenon proliferates. The workshop aims to provide a strategic toolbox to investigate and analyse fringe internet communities that are involved, in different ways and to different extents, in the production and reproduction of online violence. The workshop exposes participants to a wide array of investigative methods including digital geography and participant observation of such online communities, and qualitative interviews to their members (e.g. channel admins, etc.). <img width="1080" height="1058" width_o="1080" height_o="1058" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a788dbb03dd88f44c6f98936b7ba181e28c3efa8dda58c92639a6f9c3b55d37e/a3828aad7e69274881ac8b026d2a9060fa24532a66eeee8285bc2c615a84c451_1.jpg" data-mid="1411463" border="0" data-scale="50"/> Laboratory’s case studies include the cute imaginary of Israeli Offence Force’s soldiers micro-celebrities and hypersexualized Zionist propaganda’s influencers on major digital platforms, the case of former Military police officer awarded certificate for promoting the reputation of the IDF on TikTok, or the intertwining weapons glorification and anime body pillows, as a hyper-niche fetish that visually and culturally convey suprematist values such as female submission, 2nd amendment magnification and rape culture. Noura Tafeche will guide the participants through an intricate net of a variety of social media like hyper niche telegram channels, discord servers, popular subreddits, official and bogus accounts and user base. The workshop aims to create collaborative strategies for a net of journalists, artists, researchers to share knowledge and methods of analysis to bring to light issues related to the depths of the Internet and directly interface with its community and its pathway to a radicalized ecosystem, with a subversive/investigative slant. This workshop aims to include artists, activists, students, teachers, mixed teams of students and teachers, investigative journalists, researchers, emergent artists, art collectives, cyber-flaneurs and groups of people who are joining forces for the occasion. <img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8510689412cb268a2522b108254adc5b95736503151b92c69fc4c92e4c27c901/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1411437" border="0" /> The Kawayoku educational tool <img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8510689412cb268a2522b108254adc5b95736503151b92c69fc4c92e4c27c901/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1411437" border="0" /> The laboratory aimed to provide participants with tools to •&nbsp; Explore and archive extreme areas of contemporary visual cultures•&nbsp; Learn documentation tactics of ephemeral digital materials•&nbsp; Develop critical reflection on new forms of propaganda•&nbsp; Using found materials for performance or speculative design <img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8510689412cb268a2522b108254adc5b95736503151b92c69fc4c92e4c27c901/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1411437" border="0" />The laboratory has been hosted under different names in a span of 4 years around Europe amonsgt which:The Internet is a Horrible Place and I’m Here to Make it Worse, Nuits Sonores Festival, Hotel71, Lyon (2025) Investigative Tactics To Dismantle Supremacist Cuteness, Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquatier Bethanien, Berlin (2023) Scuola Decoloniale, TWIZA Festival , Milano Mediterranea, BASE Milano (2023)75 Tbps of (✿◠ω◠) ︻╦╤─ (75 Terabits per second of tender violence)...Or, how the next war is going to be super kawaii,DONE6 Festival, Fotocolectania, Barcelona (2022) Academic teaching amonsgt which : The Academy of Fine Arts and Design, UL, Video, Animation and New Media, Ljubljana (2025)War, Terrorism, Violence in Visual Culture, hosted by prof. Donatella Della Ratta, John Cabot Univeritys, Rome (2024)The (✿◠ω◠) 【╦╤─ side of digital ecosystem, Process Design, HyperWerk, FHNW, Basel (2024)New Media Dept. hosted by prof. Claudia D’Alonzo, Accademia di Brera, Milan (2024) <img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8510689412cb268a2522b108254adc5b95736503151b92c69fc4c92e4c27c901/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1411437" border="0" /> <img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4eaf604f79f90d96c5d3718a241ad61cfdbbda8f488214a3c3bdef5a81125980/Workshop_Noura_Tafeche_005.jpg" data-mid="1411445" border="0" /><img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4a16492f89d494a8f88b64c28f88fae691187d5e0fa18967d01f119c39eb9213/Workshop_Noura_Tafeche_015.jpg" data-mid="1411446" border="0" /><img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d454dffb4cb1d09958f1d932f6c8f850922e6e698cab377cd04f1736b7448a92/Workshop_Noura_Tafeche_013.jpg" data-mid="1411448" border="0" /> Photo by Domen Pal | Aksioma <img width="5906" height="240" width_o="5906" height_o="240" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8510689412cb268a2522b108254adc5b95736503151b92c69fc4c92e4c27c901/linea-sito-rosa-chiaro.png" data-mid="1411437" border="0" /> Back HOME The Internet is a Horrible Place and I’m Here to Make it Worse Series of Laboratories 2022 - ongoing The workshop takes inspiration from The Kawayoku... http://nouratafeche.com/Corso-di-Lingua-Incomprensibile Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:05:04 +0000 Noura Tafeche 457153 http://nouratafeche.com/HORROR-PLENI Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:04:51 +0000 Noura Tafeche 457152 HORROR PLENI Il festival della Peste! 2024 Horror Pleni è un intervento d’arte partecipata creato a partire da un laboratorio, fruito in forma di installazione e culminato in una festosa parata in luoghi pubblici.Una ricerca che incrocia il tema del mostruoso attraverso una domanda: di cosa abbiamo davvero paura?Le nostre inquietudini individuali e le ansie sociali spesso si normalizzano, a volte al punto da essere nascoste o rimosse, in altri casi si esasperano per essere affrontate e demolite apertamente.Alcune ci spaventano troppo, altre non abbastanza come dovrebbero.Alcune ce le teniamo strette perché la loro presenza è necessaria, altre non hanno ancora trovato un nome.Temiamo a sufficienza l’estinzione delle orche? Ci terrorizza di più la dichiarazione dei redditi, il numero di notifiche non lette o le mail spam con oggetto “clicca qui per confermare il tuo indirizzo”? E che dire degli algoritmi di TikTok, i CEO della Silicon Valley, e delle risposte dei chatbot? Nei mesi prima del festival, impiegando metodi ludici e partecipativi, sono emerse conversazioni trasformate in alleanze e rappresentate attraverso bandiere e vessilli. Durante il Festival della Peste 2024 è tempo di esplorare come il ‘mostruoso’ si manifesta dentro o fuori di noi mettendolo in mostra attraverso l’installazione site specific negli spazi del Lazzaretto e, l’ultimo giorno del Festival, con una parata collettiva in strada. Holotono Ismael Condoii 10 novembre 2024 Il Lazzaretto HORROR PLENI Il festival della Peste! 2024 Horror Pleni è un intervento d’arte partecipata creato a partire da un laboratorio, fruito in forma di... http://nouratafeche.com/She-s-Evil-Most-Definitively-Subliminal Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:13:42 +0000 Noura Tafeche 455008 She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminal Collaborative performance with ⋆｡‧˚ʚ&nbsp;Alex Quicho ɞ˚‧｡⋆ Two-channel projection with found subliminalpure subliminal audio, 50 mins She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminal sees Alex Quicho and Noura Tafeche enter the theatre of psychological operations online – because physical wounds heal – and lay out the girl artillery, from IOF e-girls to DIY subliminals.&nbsp; At this intersection of asymmetrical warfare and individualistic self-development, the battle is fought via seduction, influence, disruption, and confusion. Commissioned for transmediale 2024: You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie.&nbsp; Reviewed by Spike Magazine.Special thanks to Nóra Ó Murchú, Jade Barget and Kasia Wlaszczyk Performed at : you are doing amazing, sweetie, transmediale 2024, Silent Green, Berlin (2024) A*LIVE: Radical Cuteness | A* Desk, Museu de l’art Prohibit, Barcelona (2024) Are You A Software Update? conference |&nbsp;Aksioma, Kino Siska, Ljubljana (2025) <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8646c6043e1b6565c6291d11e557446ce726975a2bb58f8c71703ed5c11ac4ef/240201_Transmediale2024_Silent-Green_028_1401.jpg" data-mid="1386107" border="0" data-scale="90"/><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8decf2aa95033b54f98111be0093d6fa16f17b52eb1edbeabfaade425d81459a/tm24_AlexQuicho_ShesEvil_silentgreenKulturquartier_Betonhalle_0188_CCBYNCSA_LauraFiorio_008.jpg" data-mid="1386103" border="0" data-scale="90"/><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fc78fc092069a9d7027c40fe65b50843a789fdf081226fe2eca91d8593385ae9/tm24_AlexQuicho_NouraTafeche_ShesEvil_silentgreenKulturquartier_Betonhalle_1411_CCBYNCSA_LauraFiorio_003.jpg" data-mid="1386102" border="0" data-scale="90"/><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/428a6923bf666a9c934d491610231d2168c0146d25c850d840510494c6d86fd1/tm24_NouraTafeche_ShesEvil_silentgreenKulturquartier_Betonhalle_0171_CCBYNCSA_LauraFiorio_005.jpg" data-mid="1386104" border="0" data-scale="90"/><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4a4cd4f074b723f35f80eb8f91022e528b0ff6333854127ebf8fd04ef5caa660/tm24_AlexQuicho_NouraTafeche_ShesEvil_silentgreenKulturquartier_Betonhalle_1427_CCBYNCSA_LauraFiorio_004.jpg" data-mid="1386105" border="0" data-scale="90"/><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1bdc85128ca10499cdedc2e982d2565374dcf04acc1f1e58073d962a0fe0fbc6/tm24_AlexQuicho_NouraTafeche_ShesEvil_silentgreenKulturquartier_Betonhalle_1390_CCBYNCSA_LauraFiorio_000.jpg" data-mid="1386106" border="0" data-scale="90"/> transmediale 2024, Silent Green, Berlin (2024). Photo by Laura Fiorio<img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2c6b95f7fc4a22781660e770bf03d030335df4a194258d32d3df19654538765b/Are_You_a_Software_Update_032.jpg" data-mid="1411420" border="0" /><img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ec027891ec59933eee21e65e4043f7280d89cb1e2b73d68d703516975e68920b/Are_You_a_Software_Update_045.jpg" data-mid="1411423" border="0" /><img width="8214" height="5476" width_o="8214" height_o="5476" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9bae4e729adf13088c53bb7b128d6005202e9c7fe66530a200388b89e9acca99/Are_You_a_Software_Update_044.jpg" data-mid="1411425" border="0" /><img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/dfb3bebea7fb9860f5efa9e486e7bee842c29f3eca9e18d5d0ca18d06321f3a3/Are_You_a_Software_Update_036.jpg" data-mid="1411427" border="0" /><img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/990de17bf947f4cd41bb1e9c182927699711c2065dc38cd4eb3f16e794e09d95/Are_You_a_Software_Update_035.jpg" data-mid="1411421" border="0" /><img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/35b37e5dfd37ebf039879dc9e5bd3fda5f4e3e082a245ab5cfcb920f7dd8d39c/Are_You_a_Software_Update_041.jpg" data-mid="1411424" border="0" /><img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9d55fe1d24a753148961c27ed6cfd9e86b3ae5f9e4e72e23bc1e53ebf2a27be2/Are_You_a_Software_Update_027.jpg" data-mid="1411426" border="0" /><img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/02e9f3ecf2589f146eaa527fb4426eb24f7e8ee21b001b67cdcb4d5336fa9e43/Are_You_a_Software_Update_028.jpg" data-mid="1411428" border="0" /><img width="8256" height="5504" width_o="8256" height_o="5504" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1e2ea3f86959e0848acd240a7f929210b6752f6b03d5b3d72b79f0f9da1321b4/Are_You_a_Software_Update_039.jpg" data-mid="1411422" border="0" /> Are You a Software Update? Kino Šiška, Ljubljana. (2025)Photo by Marijo Županov / Aksioma&nbsp; CC-BY-NC-SA <img width="1402" height="700" width_o="1402" height_o="700" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0b9051d7e245af4142af3d83b690389af601adc2d63e57648b5fa8f29e20083a/scritta-rosa.png" data-mid="1386113" border="0" data-scale="49"/> BackHOME She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminal Collaborative performance with ⋆｡‧˚ʚ&nbsp;Alex Quicho ɞ˚‧｡⋆ Two-channel projection with...