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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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Phil Collins
They Shoot Horses
2004
Born in Runcorn in 1970.
Selected solo exhibitions: real society, Ormeau Baths, Belfast; baghdad screen tests, Meeting House Square, Dublin (2003). becoming more like us, Artopia, Milan; sinisa and sanja, The Wrong Gallery, New York (2002).
Selected group exhibitions: Mois de la Photo, Montreal; Undesire, apexart, NewYork (2003). Onufri, Tirana; Public Affairs, Kunsthaus, Zurich (2002). Conversations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (2001). Manifesta 3, Moderna Gallery, Ljubljana (2000).
In They Shoot Horses, Collins organized, executed, and filmed a dance marathon in Ramallah, exhibiting it afterwards as a real-time video. (Read more in The Artist-in-Residence section of this website).
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