Merge Conflicts
System, 2022.
Staged as a series of video tutorials, Merge Conflicts engages a process of unlearning settler colonial pedagogy through using Git, a software tool for managing multiple versions of digital documents.
Pieces on this page
| Title | Image | Image Description |
|---|---|---|
| Merge Conflicts: init | Screenshot of a code editor with two split panes and a command line interface at the bottom. The right pane displays monospace text that says, Unsettling timelines. In the left pane is an photograph of a book with a drawing depicting a sequence of figures from baby, to toddler, to student, to soldier. The image is captioned "On the Timeline" with archival source. The terminal at the bottom is empty with the exception of the text merge-conflicts in teal. | |
| Merge Conflicts: commit | Screenshot of a code editor with two split panes and a command line interface at the bottom. The right pane displays monospace text that says, What history are we committing to and when? In the left pane is a photograph of an Israeli history textbook spread against a black background. The pages on the right are all cut to reveal the background. The left pages are cut to reveal a photograph of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba. The image is captioned "The Historian's workshop: Childhood and youth in Eretz Israel" with loose source. Near the book's spine is a part of the current page's photograph showing a person, their head and body framed by the cuts. | |
| Merge Conflicts: branch | Screenshot of a code editor with multiple split panes and a command line interface at the bottom. The right pane displays monospace text that says, Move through parallel histories. On the left is a zoomed in crop of a cut into the cover of a textbook showing a photograph of the 1948 Palestinian Nakba. Above it is a circle cropped zoomed in photo of a partial Hebrew word related to Resident. A few lines of logged git commands are on the bottom. A closed caption reads, "Let's look at another branch of history." | |
| Merge Conflicts: log | Screenshot of a code editor with multiple split panes and a command line interface at the bottom. The right pane displays monospace text that says, What is missing from the log of history. On the left is a zoomed in crop of a rectangular cut into the pages of a textbook showing a black background. Above it is a still from a black and white video of a wave covering or receding away from a stony terrain . A git log line is on the bottom. A closed caption reads, "What is in the gaps?" |
Bio
Or Zubalsky makes paintings, drawings, scores for viewing, and systems: encounters with silence and hope. They are a 2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and were previously a resident at Pioneer Works (2023), NEW INC incubator member (2023), and C/Change R&D Lab fellow (2023).
Contact
I like getting messages at or@myawesomestudio.com.
Index (incomplete)
| Title |
|---|
| * Recent Paintings |
| Select Works on Paper |
| Select Works on Panel |
| * Unseen |
| Decentered |
| * When a Reference to a Name is Lost |
| * Merge Conflicts |
| Request Deferred |
| * Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East |
| Meeting Table |