Hewar with Riwaq @ Masra7 al Balad

Riwaq’s – Interruption encounter

Hello morning crowd and distant ones,

Thanks Mais for logging down some of the ideas we shared today down. Your contributions was very valuable, for indeed Interruptions strength stems from the multidisciplinary outlook of its consortium of creative minds, no particular discipline holds a monopoly of intellect over others. So here is to tearing down the boundaries!

I re-framed the ideas we touched on today in a slightly different way. We could expound on them more during our meeting tomorrow evening. I don’t think we need to include this part in the invitation though.

-Narrating places – cities and memory (Bilad al Sham).
-Reflection on themes of : Homeland, Belonging and Exile.
-Living and re-inacting states of siege: Artist under occupation/ Artist is diaspora.
-The question of Identity & Citizenship in “Liquid Times”.*
-Language and community as space of recovering and maintaining a denied homeland.
-The question of artistic freedom and responsibility when a is nation is under siege.
-Free minds under occupation, censored minds in diaspora; Learning from Riwaq’s expererience.

* Zigmunt Bauman

Possible projects:

Web based initiatives; (Art/ Architecture/ Text) to explore and utilize virtual space as the a means of countering occupation. We could even propose a project under the title of “Un-Occupied Territories”. A space where hypothetically unbound freedom exits and the citizen artist (in the larger sense of the word) have an opportunity to re- create a new reality.

Exploring cross-border collaboration, points of intersection or simultaneous installations in multiple and distant locations stretching the concept of a nationhood across the boundaries.

Proposed modification to invitation text:
You are invited to join a candid encounter between Riwaq (Ramallah based organization representing the first Palestinian participation ever at the Venice Biennale) & Interruptions ( Amman based architecture- art- culture) Initiative. The informal “Hiwar” will be an evening of unedited exchanges, reflections and interruptions within the framework of art & architecture on the themes of Homeland, Exile, Belonging, Citizenship, Identity and Collective memory among other topics.

Do we need to have more text for the invitation than what is in the paragraph in the italic?

Eman, 30.05.09

Riwaq & Interruptions encounter

Hey guys,
Just like Khaled was watweting…. Eman, Daria and Rula met… and I was the writer to document their work ( You know because i’m not an architect to speak!) :p so i tried not to interrupt their intellectual communication… and be the usual passive person i am (smiling face)… so here is a draft of what we propose as outline… please feel free to edit language… comment … amend … delete parts… suggest parts… it’s all subject to interruptions… from all sorts….
words & phrases that were raised :

EXILE

city Narratives

Third Space in terms of virtual mental escapes

question of HOMELAND Space BELONGing

Question of Citizenship

Palestinian Art Unconcious pain

the exile conference of 2010 in montereal – Montereal- Jordan- Palestine exile project

Freeing artists freeing art

Free Minds Interrupted thoughts

talking Cliche

crazy Distance & Time?!!


and here is a proposed invitation

Join an encounter between Riwaq from Palestine & Interruptions Inititaive. An invitation to Interrupt the cliches & cross new borders in observing how we view culture, architecture, identity, mobility, belonging, homeland, and citizenship differently.
an attempt for Riwaq to inspire interruptions…. and for the interruptionists to interrupt thought & wondering ideas….


please suggest names to invite people….
suggested list already
Samar dudin- important for the identity & exile part
Dr. Rami Daher
ISmail Tahhan
Bilal
Dr. Farouk Yaghmour
7iber- to exchange the 3rd space concept


and khaled will be responsilbe for creating an event on interruptions group on Facebook… since he has the monopoly of the administration there… :p

i will be responsible for booking Alballad theatre
Rula will bring the data show
Daria & Khaled will prepare interruptions presentation

I added mobility (smiling face) it comes with the package of safar suggesting this encounter…. do you mind? anyhow… there’so much of safar’s influence on the draft above… added to the fact that the above is coming from a non architect ;p so please go ahead and revise…



hugs,
Mais irqsusi