Curator: Salwa Mikdadi
Commissioner: Vittorio Urbani, Director of Nuova Icona
Artists: Taysir Batniji, Emily Jacir, Shadi HabibAllah, Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti, Jawad Al Malhi, and Khalil Rabah
For this first historic participation, the artists were commissioned to create new works and chosen for their ability to bridge local and global themes through their art practice. As both emerging and established artists, they employ diverse techniques including sound and multimedia installation, performance, site specific work, animation, photography, and video. Collectively, they bring to the world’s attention diverse conceptual readings of space, memory, displacement, migration, nation, and the human condition.
Calendar of Events
Press Preview June 4, 2009 11:30 am
followed at 1pm with a performance by Khalil Rabah
Symposium June 5, 2009, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Location
Spazio Thetis
Arsenale, Sestiere Di Castello,
Vaporetto/Waterbus N° 41 / 42
Fermata/Stop “Bacini”
Opening Reception June 6, 2009, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Khalil Rabah Performance: 5:30pm
Ramallah Syndrome Sound-System Performance June 6, 2009, 10:00pm
By Sound Artists: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abourahme
S.A.L.E
Dorsoduro 265
Venezia boat stop: Zattere or Salute
Unless indicated all events will take place at exhibit ; detailed information below.
SYMPOSIUM:CONVERSATIONS
June 5th, 2009 9:30 until 5:00 pm
Free Admission. Early registration required & currently FULL.
Contact: info@palestinecoveniceb09.org, tel: 39 32 86 04 59 76
Issues to be discussed will focus on art in the time of perpetual crisis, the role artists play in civil society as activist and as catalysts of democratic discourse, and the artists’ activation of public spaces as alternative venues in the absence of museums and state support. Symposium participants include the artists, art historian and art professionals representing several Palestinian art institutions.
Program
10:00 am –until 12:30 (registration starts at 9:30am)
Ramallah Syndrome – A community based art project that explores the rise of Ramallah from a resort town into a de-facto capital of the future Palestinian State
Discussant: Salwa Mikdadi –Curator
Dr. Yazid Anani: Prof. of Architecture, Birzeit University, Birzeit, W. Bank
Dr. Alessandro Petti, Research Fellow at Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, University of London and Architect based in London/Bethlehem
Dr. Sandi Hilal, artist and architect. A visiting professor at the International Academy of Art Palestine, Bethlehem.
12:30 – 1: 30 pm :lunch served by Canteen (7 Euros)
1: 30 – 3:00 pm
Palestinian Art
Discussant: Dr. Vittorio Urbani, Venice
Speakers:
Kamal Boullata, artists and art historian, France, Jack Persekian, curator, artistic director of 7, 8 & 9th Sharjah Biennale and the Director of al Ma’mal Foundation for contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Dr. Tina Sherwell Director, International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah
3:15 – 5:00 pm
A Geography: 50 Villages – Riwaq’s 3rd Biennale, Ramallah
Speakers:
Khalil Rabah artist and Director of Riwaq Biennale for Art and Architecture, Ramallah
Dr. Suad Al Ameri, Director, Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation, Ramallah
Farhat Yousef, Head of Planning Unit, Riwaq, Ramallah
Khalil Rabah Performance: 5:30pm
Khalil Rabah, 3rd Riwaq Biennale 2009. A Geography : 50 Villages
Act Three,
Geography 102: 50 Local Pavilions, in four parts
Part D:
Geography 201: Press
Geography 202: A Case
Ramallah Syndrome SOUND-SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
June 6, 10:00 pm
S.A.L.E Dorsoduro 265
Venezia boat stop: Zattere or Salute
www.sale-docks.org
The sound system performance is part of the Ramallah Syndrome project presented at Palestine c/o Venice by Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti with Nasser Abourahme, Yazeed Anani, Laura Ribeiro, Reem Fadda, Omar Jabary-Salamanca, Yazan Khalili.
Sound Sytem by Aswatt (Basel Abbas) and Ruanne Abourahme
Ramallah Syndrome Sound-System collects materials as its initial starting point and then it is reworked for the sound installation presented at Palestine c/o Venice. The performance while a result of this process, is not intended as a replication but rather a re-examination of the material, picking up threads from the original piece in a dynamic exploration and experimentation of ‘found’ footage, archive sample, audio-video location recordings, and heavy electronic music.
Convento Ss. Cosma & Damiano,
Campo S.Cosmo, Giudecca Palanca, 30133 Venezia
Giudecca Vaporetto stop Palanca Lines #2, 41- 42
Free Admission
For more detailed information should you wish to feature this exhibition, please contact me on:
press-pr@palestinecoveniceb09.org
www.palestinecoveniceb09.org
Nuova Icona Associazione Culturale Per Le Arti, Giudecca 454, 30133 Venezia
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