By Nadim Karam, Atelier Hapsitus, Beirut (www.hapsitus.com)
I always felt it important to go public.
Maybe as a need to reach the world around me and exteriorize myself. Also as a necessity to address the city culturally, especially the emerging post war cities like (Beirut & others) were the financial issues are first addressed while the city’s […]
Entries Tagged as 'geopolitics'
What is a city?
August 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: cities · communities · boundaries · geopolitics · public art · contested spaces
An opening platform for conversation
June 5th, 2007 · No Comments
Report by Ofri Cnaani (Israel/NYC) and Jenny Vogel (Germany/NCY), artists
What are the daily issues one is confronted with?
What are the misunderstandings, frustrations, challenges one is confronted with?
Due to several circumstances like the instability of the political situation in the Middle East, the lack of budget available to us, we had to stay flexible […]
Tags: cultures · geopolitics · cooperation · creative process
For an expanded network
March 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
Report by Achilleas Kentonis, artist
Director of Artos Foundation, Nicosia Cyprus (www.artosfoundation.org)
What are the daily issues one is confronted with?
I would focus on two key words on this question: daily and confronted. Human nature deals with these two “codes” in an opposite way. “Western” people as part of a social group always try to keep on […]
Tags: languages · cultures · communities · geopolitics