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Paris Circle under Occupation!
[Paris Circle under Occupation]
[دوار باريس تحت الاحتلال]
Aramram:
في عالم مليء بالمصائب قام مجموعة من المصممين و الفنّانين المعماريين في مكان في جبل الويبدة
بتأدية مهمّة سريّة طالبت بها قطط عمّان من خلال فيديو مسجّل
إعادة إصلاح دوّار باريس
تغطية لعمل قيد الإنشاء مع تحيّات مجلّة
For more about Catatonia, read earlier blog posts;
http://interruptionsblog.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/interruptions-presents-cats-the-workshop/
Jordan Propety Aug/Sep 09 Issue29
Interruptions Catatonia featured on JP's Issue29
It was a very pleasant surprise finding Interruptions Catatonia workshop poster featured on the latest issue of Jordan Property.
We weren’t even notified by Jordan Property of this feature and it was only by coincidence that I found Cats:Workshop poster (designed by Ahmad Sabbagh) on a full page at JP‘s FYI with a beautifully written caption which reads,
[With our world busy with the complications of politics, aftermaths of wars, and financial market indices, a group of young designers and architecture graduates and students in Jordan are turning the public eye to a different corner in the dark. It's a secret design mission!
Trying to think outside the box, these young people have organized a week-long workshop with the participation of designers from multiple backgrounds, The activity is aimed at reforming an urban setting, not for people, but for cats!
The workshop symbolically calls for liberating the mentality of designers from prescriptive typologies. It also triggers professionals to explore potentials for multi-disciplinary design approaches.
Designing for parallel creatures and thinking differently, the workshop was organized and carried out by "Interruptionists" as they call themselves, referring to their interactive website.]
Interruptions is also going to collaborate with Jordan Property as a content provider for their upcoming releases as an attempt to extend reach through other platforms both printed and online based.
http://interruptions.ning.com
Too bad I missed this fantastic and surreal event, for I am a lover of cat and owner of many throughout my seven cat lives, the latest being an amazing Russian blue we called BAZZOON, also had the privilege of delivering three litters in one of the bedrooms of our country house, read one of the greatest literary work of the 20th century where one of the central characters is an outrageously funny and demonic cat. All that to say that my comments should hypothetically carry some weight!!!!! So here it is: Design all you want, you will never be able to get into the fantastic mind of a cat. When our cat delivered her litters, for more than 2 months we played hide and seek, the mother kept hiding her litters in places even the most creative or devious mind could not have imagined, (tearing the bottom padding of a a lounge chair and stuffing the litters inside the upholstery. When we asked our veterinarian in exasperation for advice, this is what she had to say: “A cat will hide its litters in places even the devil can’t find, and there is nothing yo can do about it!” Our pharaonic ancestors considered these creatures to be mini gods, and sentenced anyone who inflicted harm on them to the death penalty. So you folks have taken on a monumental task, IF YOU FALL SHORT in Catalonia, its population will revolt and cast its spell on all of you!
A toast to these fantastic creatures and any anyone who tries to get into their sublime mind, despite the futility of the feat.
Eman
بينما كثرت في الآونة الأخيرة البسبسات حول مخطط كتاتونيا الجديد, تعالت الأصوات بعضها متفائل و البعض الآخر حذر و مترقب أبعاد هذه الخطوة التاريخية حيث أن تمدن القطط هو خطوة تقدمية تجر تصعيداً للصراع الطبقي نحو حتمية الصدام التاريخية ما بين حركة القطط الشوارعية الأممية و برجوازية القطط المنزلية التي دأبت على احتكار مصادر الغذاء و أدوات الأمان, يالاضافة الى تواطئ البرجوازية التاريخي مع الحيوانات البشرية, العدو الأزلي لحركة القطط الشوارعية.
الرفاق من قطط أوروبا الشرقيا و النيبال دعوا الى الاسراع بتنفيذ مخطط كتاتونيا مشددين على أهمية بنائها على أسس النفد الفططي للتجربة البشرية مطالبين بضرورة قيام كتاتونيا على بناء واقعي علمي ينتصر لحقوق القطط الشوارعية الحرة و يؤمن لهم موارد العيش التي بقيت حتى ثورة كتاتونيا العظيمة مقتصرة على برجوازية القطط المنزلية من مأوى, ماء, مصادر الغذاء, عوامل الأمان الضرورية, الراحة و ثقافة القطط الجنسية المنفتحة.
د. قطوان البسابسة
*Extracts from [CATS: Rough Exhibition] (work-in-progress) @Makan
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Woke up an hour late! Rushed to the car and gunned through Amman’s serpentine streets leading to Makan.
The past few days were quite productive for the team handling the Catatonia Account.
Time to produce a collective blog post…
It was decided that we will hold a rough exhibition, a.k.a. “A Work in Progress,” at Makan between Tuesday and Wednesday. The opening is at 8:30 p.m.
What have we done so far…?
Dana created cat-related commercial product logos…they are quite innovative and will soon adorn Makan’s wall.
The room on the left at the far end of Makan is turning into quite a visual sanctuary thanks to Dina and Rula, who have been working on it non-stop.
While Rula drew Elevations Dina worked on Perspectives that included an aerial shot of Paris Circle. Soon someone will be caught in the red 
The perspective wall is quite amazing and will blow people out of their minds—then again the overall idea of Interruptions’ Cat Workshop will undoubtedly have the same effect.
Someone attending the exhibition on Tuesday might say, “What were those guys and girls on cause I want to have the same?”
Needless to say it was imagination followed by inspiration and teamwork.
Hadi produced the Catmobile for Orange Tubby that is hovering above the ground at the same room, where Rula, Yazan and Rula are working. Just saw Hadi and learned that he and Toleen are about to start working on the cat products that were thought of in the past few days: Cat Watch, Cat Eyes and Cat-Mobile.
Rula is also start working on the urban wall at Makan’s entrance.
Yazan has been working on sketches that will be dubbed either (Urban Cat-gets) or (Pipeology). The sketches demonstrate a number of cat orientated city details: Chat rooms, watchtowers and restrooms.
A cat acquaintance of Khaled inked two articles for a Cat Gazette about the buzz surrounding Catatnoia. You got to read it when you visit Makan on opening day.
As for me I created a comic rendition of the Cat Workshop story. Ahmad digitized it and gave it an artistic feel. I also worked on a three panel rendition after being inspired by a piece written by Nader Gammas.
Ahmad also created an artistic wall called Catatonia (بنت عم الدنيا), which is situated next to Yazan’s project.
All in all: Papers have been cut, stories printed, stencils were created, walls sketched on and collaged, ideas conceived on paper, lines intersecting to create sketches and above all cats remembered.
Interruptions’ Cats Workshop is about the collaboration between architects, designers and writers [An All Star Team of Creative Individuals].
Everyone is still working hard to meet the August 25th and 26th deadline that will reveal to the world a Catatonia like no other…
Some more slogans for the propaganda, and visual communications around catatonia/cat city
…
paws more, see more
letting the cats out of the laptop bag
curiousity saved the cat!
support all bird feeders.
catfish are miserable, fish hate them, cats eat them!
…
Intro for the catalogue: (product brochure)
cats are faced with the catastrophic categorization of them as cattles of street cats that shouldn’t be catered to in any way…
a catalogue of newly categorized cat products will act as a caterwauling catalyst that will catapult cats into a new era…
…
Arabic:
بس بوسة وحده
بِس بلاش
بس خلص
قطة صغيرة (short story)
…
Hello, I’m sick at home today couldn’t make it to the first of the last two and most important days… but it’s fine i guess, we all agree that we have so many goo ideas, and no one will rest until they are all visualized…
So, a car is now in the making, the catmobile is sitting there on my screen mocking me, but believe you me it’s getting done whether she likes it or not!
Ahmad was last seen working on a dumpster (a visual on his computer!)
Tuleen is committed to giving cats a more luxurious and spacious place for hang outs.
Khaled walked around in circles just loving his megaphone..
Rula, Dina, Yazan,.. and Khaled whenever he wasn’t megaphoning, all worked on turning the 2d space on the wall into a visual statement, a complete set of pipes in different sizes and materials so people can get the full experience of cat city…
i wonder what’s going on now…
