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Monday 17th of October, 2011 @ 17:00
at Al Mahatta Gallery,
Ramallah (near Bank
of Palestine)
Artist-in-residence
Juan Delgado in conversation with Dr. Yazid Anani
ArtSchool Palestine in
cooperation with Birzeit University
Museum and Al Mahatta Gallery are pleased to invite
you to a conversation between artist-in-residence Juan Delgado and architect and
planner Dr. Yazid Anani.
Juan Delgado gained
his Master in Contemporary Media Arts at the University of Westminster in 2001.
His work has been included in major exhibitions & media festivals
worldwide. Delgado’s
work explores urban territory; focusing on the physical and psychological
impact it has upon human beings. Focusing on the traumatic experience the city
affects in the individual such as violence, displacement and alienation,
Delgado has developed a body of work that includes The Wounded Image
(1997 – 2003), a photographic series that questions how we relate to issues
such as trauma, homophobia, misogyny and child abuse. He has also produced
several works such as Don’t Look Under the Bed (2001), Who Are You
Entertaining to? (2002) and Suspended Reverie (2006) in which he
continues his enquiry into trauma and dislocation. http://www.juan-delgado.com
Dr. Yazid Anani is an architect, planner and spatial critique. He studied
Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the Birzeit University and the
University of Live Sciences in Norway. He obtained his Ph.D. in 'Spatial
Planning' from the Universitaet Dortmund in Germany. Anani currently works as a
professor at both the Department of Architectural Engineering and the Master
Program of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture at the Birzeit University.
He also lectures on topics in 'Spatial Politics' at the International Academy
of Art Palestine. He was recently engaged in several spatial projects such as
'Decolonizing Architecture' and 'Ramallah Syndrome', which were exhibited at
the 53rd Venice Biennial. He also curated several projects such as 'Urban
Cafes', 'Critical Landscapes' & 'Decolonizing Architecture: BZU
Experience'.
The artist’s talk is
programmed alongside the upcoming 3rd edition of Cities Exhibition Between Ebal and Gerzim curated by Vera
Tamari and Yazid Anani. The exhibition
is produced by the Birzeit University Museum in partnership with the ArtSchool
Palestine and the Nablus Municipality.
The exhibition is
supported by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and sponsored by: RIWAQ,
Goethe Institute and French Cultural Center and in Cooperation with British
Council.
For further information
please contact: info@artschoolpalestine.com
The ArtSchool Palestine residency
is supported by Ford Foundation
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ArtSchool Palestine International Residency
Programme Fall 2011
ASP is pleased to host - this fall 2011 - six
distinguished artists from around the Globe. These are: Anna Sherbany,
Juan Delgado, Tom Bogaert, Nasser Soumi and Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia
Tkacova.
The artists
will pursue new projects and research in locations throughout Palestine, in the
process making links with artists and art organisations and contributing to
building a network for the exchange of ideas.
This years’
residency programme is organised in cooperation with Birzeit University Museum,
and the invited artists will take part in cities exhibition "Between Ebal and Gerzim" produced by
Birzeit University Museum in partnership with Nablus Municipality and ArtSchool
Palestine. Some of the invited artists will research and produce art works to
be exhibited in Nablus city; others will take part in the creative encounters
series organized around the exhibition.
The exhibition will open on the 12 of
November 2011 in Nablus city and will be accompanied by a series of
creative encounters which includes:
6th – 12th of of
October: 5 days photography
workshop for the students of the Fine Arts Department at An Najah delivered by
Anna Sherbany. The workshop is organized in cooperation with British Council –
Palestine.
Monday 17th October at 17:00, Juan Del Gado in conversation with
Yazid Anani at Al-Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah
Monday 31st October at 14:00, Nasser Soumi in conversation with
Khaled Hourani at Franco German Cultural Center, Ramallah
Monday 14th November at 17:00, Lucia Tkacova & Anita Mona in
conversation with Vera Tamari at Al-Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah
The residency programme is supported by Ford
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Artists’ Biographies:
Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová
Anetta Mona Chişa, born in Romania, and Lucia Tkáčová, born in Slovakia,
have been working together since 2000. They both graduated at the Academy of
Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and currently live and work in Prague. They
explore gender relations as well as their role of Eastern European artists in a
Western-dominated art world. Their projects are often based on contextual
interpretation of art from Eastern Europe and its stereotypical mode of
representation, derived from a grid of geopolitical relations. Playing with the
concept of access to different forms of power, the artists refer to the typical
situation in post-communist New Europe, while, on the other hand, they are
deconstructing society’s icons and habits, revealing their basic economic
fundamentals and functioning. Lately
they focus on formulating methods that can be applied to forgotten segments of
historical facts and events. The social, personal, historical and political get
ultimately unified while memory and oblivion are paired, forgotten moments of
life awarded and the sense of the whole lot discredited. With
videos, installations, textual works, and performances they refract consumer
expectations and trigger processes of reflection about gender questions, the
art market, and making art. http://www.chitka.info
Anna Sherbany lives and works in London, UK
Issues of migration and dislocation have been
Sherbany’s concern and have informed the direction and content of her artwork. Sherbany
experiment with installation, exploring the relationship between wall/screen,
space and audience, seeing the gallery as a formative part of the work and
actively engaging the viewer. Much of her artwork moves between the political and
the emotional; from history to the present, reflecting on memory and its
significance in our lives.
She works with the “memory gaps” that inevitably occur
in the transition from one culture to another culture through language, song,
story, tradition etc. http://www.annasherbany.com
Nasser Soumi, works and lives in Paris
Soumi
was born in 1948 in Palestine, and studied fine arts in Damascus and Paris. He
has had a number of personal exhibits in France, Jordan and Palestine, and
participated in a number of group exhibits, notably at the Tokyo Museum, the
Madrid National Museum, and the Paris Institut du Monde Arabe. Soumi’s works
can be found in public collections such as the Tunis Museum of Modern Art, the
French National Fund for Contemporary Art, the Paris Bibliotheque Nationale,
and the Baghdad National Museum. He participated in the French Palestinian
spring exhibit at the Paris Institut du Monde Arabe in 1997. http://www.nassersoumi.com
Tom Bogaert lives and works in Amman,
Jordan
Before dedicating his life to art, Belgian artist Tom
Bogaert documented genocide and human rights abuses in Africa, Europe and Asia.
He worked as a lawyer for Amnesty International and the UN refugee agency. The
artist does not see his artwork as an extension of his refugee work, although
it does directly confront the intersection of human rights, entertainment and
propaganda. Bogaert stopped practicing law in 2004 and
participated in the Elizabeth Foundation Studio Center in New York City. He had
his first solo exhibition in NYC in 2008 with Jack the Pelican Presents gallery
and he has widely exhibited in Europe, the Middle East and the US. Bogaert’s
work has been written about in publications such as The New York Times,
Al-Akhbar, JO-magazine, NY Arts Magazine, Baladna, Artist for Artist and The
Miami Herald. http://tombogaert.org
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