"Emily Jacir adopts visual and linguistic strategies to investigate and create the recurrent themes addressed in her work, which are borders, issues of movement, dislocation, radical displacement, and resistance." Steve Sabella on Emily Jacir and Palestinian Conceptual Art.
"There are often parallel elements in my work, side-by-side projections or juxtaposed subtitles running simultaneously. I don’t think it’s about sewing doubt or confusion though. I like to hope it’s appropriate to the subjects I’ve sought: persons whose story is somewhere between an experience and its reenactment, the push and pull between historical time, personal time and dramatic time".
Omer Fast gives an interview to Flash Art.
Heb.TV: Live broadcast from the occupied areas in Hebron H2 areas. They now broadcast consistently from houses opposite the site of the violent new settlement (The disputed house). This project is a collaboration between Israeli artist
Mich’ael Zupraner and Palestinian activists Issa Amro, Fawaz Abuaisha, Hani Abu Haykal, the families participating in the camera project, and numerous other creative contributors from Israel and Palestine.
The Hebrew School. The New York Times published another article about the Tel Aviv contemporary art scene in the travel section. Ok, Tel Aviv is cool travel destination and has great cafes, but can't the NYT write a serious article about Israeli art?
VideoZone4, The Forth International Video Art Biennial in Israel to be held between November 25th – and December 1st. 2008. Opening is on Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 8:00 p.m., at the Israeli Center for Digital Art with the exhibition "
Speed of Light".
During the event’s six-day duration, 34 different programs of experimental films, video and digital art, video clips and AV works will be screened in the auditorium of the Center for Contemporary in Tel Aviv and at Tel Aviv Cinematheque. The program will comprise a unique selection by about 150 Israeli and international video artists.
"I understood that when I use photographs that are not mine, I am actually involved in curating photographs, I can talk about the subjects that are important to me, the urgent ones, without the viewers being able to escape into compliments about taste, about beauty, or complimenting the artist."
Michal Heiman Talks to Haaretz following her new exhibition, 'Attacks on Linking,' at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
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