Tightrope Walking Archives

The Architecture of Violence

July 30, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

The Israelian intellectual and architect Eyal Weizman follows the architecture across the West Bank as he analyses it´s central role in

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47SOUL in London

July 30, 2014 Thomas Büsch

47SOUL and OneTaste are hosting an event to raise funds for the children of Gaza. This event was born out

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Palestinian Art in New York

July 27, 2014 Thomas Büsch

Pro-Palestine Art Event Cancelled in NYC On Thursday July 24th, Whitebox Art Center in New York City opened No Exit,

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Forensic Architecture

July 26, 2014 Thomas Büsch

Forensic Architecture is a research project based at Goldsmiths, University of London. The project has assembled a team of architects,

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Flying Paper

July 18, 2014 Thomas Büsch

Flying Paper – a documentary by Nitin Sawhney and Roger Hill – tells the uplifting story of resilient Palestinian youth in the Gaza

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Susya – An Emptied Village in Palestine

July 17, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

The short film “Susya” from Dani Rosenberg and Yoav Gross premiered at the Berlinale in 2011. It tells the story

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No Exit

July 16, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

The Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrer is denied exit from his hometown Rammallah over Jordan to New York to attend a

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Here and Elsewhere

July 16, 2014 Thomas Büsch

In 1970, Jean-Luc Godard, along with Jean-Pierre Gorin and the Dziga Vertov Group, was commissioned by Al Fatah, the militant

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The Book of Destruction

July 15, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

The Berlin based photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer spend several times in Gaza taking photos that do more than underlining a story.

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.