Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou Rahme Noor Abed Bisan Abu Eisheh Lawrence Abu Hamdan Mounira Al Solh Paul Chan Beatrice Catanzaro Gustavo Ciriaco and Andrea Sonnberger Mette Edvardsen Mona Hatoum Bartolomé Ferrando Lan Hungh Rania Khalil Yazan Khalili Los Torreznos Maha Maamoun Tom Molloy Khalil Rabah Juliana Irene Smith Sharif Waked Young-­Hae Chang Heavy Industries

Nablus Municipality Library: The Prisoner’s Section a needle in the binding Installation by artist Beatrice Catanzaro. 200 books brought from The Nablus Library prisoners’ section to the Khalidi Library in Jerusalem. The Imprisoned Book. Talks on the Prisoners’ Library, curated and moderated by Esmail Nashif, Professor and researcher, who has published research on Political Imprisonment [...]

As part of the Jerusalem Show 2011 programme, On/Off Language: A series of talks held at the International Academy of Art Palestine, starting the 17th October 2011 – 27th October at 15:00 Aref el-Aref Building, behind the Arab Bank, Al Bireh Ramallah Monday 17.10 – Rania Khalil 15:00 Rania Khalil http://raniakhalil.net/ is an interdisciplinary artist working in [...]

Curated by Victoria Perez Royo Screening of documented performances related to issues of Language Performing language Educational Bookshop (27 October at 16:30) Language on stage is treated not a way of communication but a problem to solve. The videos of this screening are fragments of recordings of different theatre, dance and performance art pieces; some [...]

Soundline (performance 29 October at 19:00 , duration: 13 min.) Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family “I try to create connections between visuality and sound of language, and also parallels between line and voice. But the action tries to go beyond itself looking to propose to the listener-spectator a different reading of his/her own actions and everyday objects as [...]

The Zone (2011) (Built Structure, dimensions and material variable, 15 minute two channel video/four channel sound) Yabous Association “We will be reborn anew”- FATAH poster 1984 In one of the darkest moments in Palestinian lived history, a ‘dream-world’ has somehow emerged in the West Bank: a host of commodified desires, a semblance of normality, have [...]

Nablus Municipality Library: The Prisoner´s Section a needle in the binding (Installation, 2011) Commissioned for The Jerusalem Show, Al-Ma’mal Foundation Khalidi Library Project by Beatrice Catanzaro and Khalil Ashour, in collaboration with Niklas Fagerholm and with the contribution of Pedro Paiva. The prisoner’s book section of the Nablus Municipality Library hosts approximately 8000 books read [...]

I am human and I live in the city Public performance (2011) Al Zahra St.   I am no writer, no politician, no party supporter, and no sociologist. I am a human and I live in this city.   Bio Bisan Abu-Eisheh lives in Jerusalem and was born in 1985. A 4th year student at [...]

Neighbours Performance/Tour 28 & 29 October 14:00 – 18:00 Al Zahra Street Without even stepping outside your apartment or house, there they are, your neighbors. They frame your daily life as well as your domestic life through direct or indirect contacts with you, giving your surroundings its characteristic atmosphere, colors, endurance. Any single conglomeration of [...]

Part Three: Nobody Mourned (Site Specific Installation with Sound, 2011) The Swedish Christian Study Center Part Three: Nobody Mourned is a multi-layered project, which includes sound and two sculptural elements. The sound is American children aged 8 – 12 learning the revolution song Unadikum. It was the first song I learned in Arabic, a love [...]