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New Gate, Old City
Jerusalem 91145
P.O.Box 14644
T: (+972) 2 6283457
F: (+972) 2 6272312 |
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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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Desiree Palmen
The Old City Suit
2006
Maintaining a special interest in biology, in particular, the strange forms and behavioral traits exhibited by mimics within the animal and plant kingdoms, Palmen participated in the artist-in-residence program at Al-Ma’mal with a proposal to develop her “universal suit” project (development of her 2002 Streetwise series), working in direct relation to the security surveillance cameras tightly placed within the old city of Jerusalem. Designing a suit especially made to be ‘camouflaged’ into two particular public spaces within the old city stone walls, Palmen recorded herself modeling the suits (within the public spaces they were made to be camouflaged into) posing with acute stillness for extended periods of time while all along documenting these set-ups from the perspective eye of the surveillance cameras. The Old City Suit is a project encompassing photography and video documenting Palmen's modeling of the suit on location in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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