30/04/2026
Feras Shaheen is a Palestinian artist, curator and community organiser currently based in Nipaluna.
Feras is also the co-president of TPAN (Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network).
Born to Palestinian parents (Gaza/Al Lid), and moving to Western Sydney at age 11, Feras engages with his practice as a way to reflect and examine how he views the world, addressing local and global issues.
Since we filmed this interview in December 2025, the Bondi shooting happened; the tentacles of the greater *sra el project has infiltrated Australian legislation, seeing over 20 people arrested so far for saying “from the r*ver to the sea” or “global*se the ant*fada”; and along with the continued genoc*de of Palestinians and now over a million displaced in Lebanon, our great wet-towel of a Prime Minister, Anthony, decided it was a good idea to welcome the very architect of that genocide to this country, in some vapid attempt at ‘cohesion’ of this emotionally-constipated society.
“I believe there has always been loss and massacre, but as humans now we are in a unique time… this sentence is used a lot now, but I really do believe in it: “We are not freeing Palestine; Palestine is freeing us”; because anyone that’s following the issues in Palestine closely is waking up to a lot of things that are also causing different environments to collapse and different people to be killed.
There is momentum now, including from people you wouldn’t usually see in activist spaces—like myself. I struggle to say I’m an activist because I’m just an artist that has woken up, but that puts me in the activist bubble.
With this momentum, something has to be done.
Now is the time to disrupt the pattern.
LAMA disrupts just by existing, because there is no category for a space like it, which means it will force things to adapt to that disruption.
If we create spaces like LAMA, then we can really interrupt and disrupt this cycle.”
Feras’ words are timeless because resistance is timeless.
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