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Needled by a Rainbow

July 7, 2015 Thomas Büsch

Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar is currently struggeling with his country once again. After not being allowed to exit Israel in

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Politics and the Production of Space

April 17, 2015 Thomas Büsch

The exhibition Written City at the Bruges Cultural Centre, Belgium, looks at the spatial organization of the city and the

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Banksy in Gaza

February 26, 2015 Thomas Büsch

The British graffiti artist Bansky has taken his politically charged message to the bombed-out neighborhoods of Gaza, where a series

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Loss is loss – Pain has no Nation

October 11, 2014 Thomas Büsch

Nothing replaces the loss of a son, not even another son. Those are the haunting words of Safia Abo Zour,

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The same area before&after Israeli attack

September 5, 2014 Thomas Büsch

The Palestinian independent documentary film production company – Media Town – based in Palestine published aerial views of Gaza before and after

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Checkpoint Helsinki

August 17, 2014 Thomas Büsch

A Performative Action by Khaled Jarrar (Palestine) curated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen commissioned by Checkpoint Helsinki as part

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What Art can do for Real Politics

August 14, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

Open Call to Participate in an Art Project by Khaled Jarrar The Istanbul based team of InEnArt is reviving an

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مُقاطَعَة Boikutt – Ramallah Underground & Tashweesh

August 8, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

This Revolution is my revolution / and I say this from my alternative hometown / let’s learn the lesson from

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Return to Nature – Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency

August 5, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

Decolonizing architecture is a collective of architects running a residency program based in Beit Sahour, Palestine. It is the result

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As tensions and violence escalated in Palestine, our thoughts are with the Speed Sisters, their families and friends, and all others at risk of harm.

Tightrope Walking refers to the funambulist Philippe Petit crossing illegally the space between the two towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. This act of walking on a line (funambulist means tightrope walker) is an act of subversion of the traditional role of the line/wall which normally splits two milieus from one another and organizes the bodies in space.

The outcaster, writer, thief and prostitute Jean Gene became as well a funambulist when he witnessed to the wreckage and slaughter in the Palestinian refugee camp of Chatila in 1982 reffering to it in his essay Four Hours in Chatila.

French architect Léopold Lambert as editor of The Funambulist online platform examines the inherent characteristics of architecture that systematically makes it a political weapon specifically in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.