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New Gate, Old City
Jerusalem 91145
P.O.Box 14644
T: (+972) 2 6283457
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Museum of Contemporary Art – Palestine (CAMP):
The Museum of Contemporary Art (CAMP) was established to relate to one of the core Palestinian experiences – displacement; as well as to account for the growing collection of visual art that has been safeguarded by Al-Ma’mal over the past ten years. There was/is a need to create a lever for new opportunities, innovative thought, and dynamic multi-cultural activity within, and surrounding Palestinian art, culture, and environment. Our goal is to utilize CAMP to relate to Palestine and its rich and multifaceted textures (traditional/ historical backdrop embedded within contemporary ambitions), while encouraging and strengthening international communications as well. We believe that a contemporary art museum must be a flexible, living organism; an expanding space that will facilitate the realization of cultural projects, empower creative individuals of all nationalities, and avoid stagnation that might otherwise act negatively in like developments. For this reason, we envision CAMP’s essence not solely as a physical place (for that would undermine our working philosophy and limit creative potential), but as an authentic, accessible, and fluid entity, a nomadic site where dialogue, growth, and resourceful experimentation are encouraged.
Our project involves the biennial 'nomadic' movement of CAMP, its cumulative art collection and 'portable' structure. Every year, CAMP will find a temporary 'home' under the auspices of a 'host museum.' The 'host museums' – located across the globe – will be invited to interact with CAMP's presence and to initiate projects and exhibitions.
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| Alban Biaussat / Anne-Marie Filaire / Ayreen Anastas / Ayse Erkmen / Beat Streuli / Desiree Palmen / Emily Jacir /
Jananne Al-Ani / Jean-Luc Vilmouth / Jean-Marc Bustamante / Luc Chery / Mario Rizzi / Mona Hatoum / Nicolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen /
Peter Riedlinger / Phil Collins / Raeda Saadeh / Rineke Dijkstra / Rosalind Nashashibi / Samir Srouji / Scarlett Hooft Graafland /
Suzan Hijab / Zeyad Dajani / Zoe Leonard /
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Ayreen Anastas
Pasolini Pa* Palestine
2004/2005
Anastas was born in Bethlehem, Palestine, after the Israeli occupation. She is living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
Exhibitions and activities held in cities including New York, Berlin, Chicago, Rotterdam, and Gallery Anadiel, Jerusalem, 2004.
Ayreen Anastas' art practice engages with issues of public and political space, language, and the question of Palestine. She was an artist-in-residence at Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in 2004 where she conducted research about the Italian director Pasolini and his visit to Palestine in 1962 to make his film 'Seeking Locations in Palestine for the Gospel According to St. Matthew'. The film project she produced titled 'Pasolini Pa* Palestine' turns Pasolini's script into a roadmap superimposed on Palestine's current landscape, creating contradictions between the visual and the audible, the expected and the real.
'Pasolini Pa* Palestine is an attempt to repeat Pasolini's trip to Palestine in his film 'Seeking Locations in Palestine for the Gospel According to St. Matthew' in 1963. It turns Pasolini's script into a roadmap superimposed on Palestine's current landscape, creating contradictions between the visual and the audible, the expected and the real. The video explores questions of repetition - for Heidegger repetition, retrieval, are terms for an appropriate attitude toward the past - and establishes a dialogue with Pasolini. The term discutere (to smash to pieces) is the Latin source for dialogue and discussion. The video does not criticise Pasolini but rather reveals the possibilities in his thought and works back to the 'experiences' which inspired it.' (Ayreen Anastas)
Video, 51 minutes
Produced by Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, and Ashkal Alwan/Lebanon.
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