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New Gate, Old City
Jerusalem 91145
P.O.Box 14644
T: (+972) 2 6283457
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The Artist-in-Residence Program:
The Artist-in-Residence program provides local and visiting artists accommodation and studio facilities in Jerusalem for the creation, presentation, development and exchange of creative projects. This program serves as a meeting place for artists, facilitating creative encounters and discussion forums that are open to the public community, thus activating communication between Palestine and the international world. In order to further encourage this exchange, we invite the artists in-residence to contribute to the Al-Ma’mal Workshops program, working primarily with youth on creative projects.
We provide the artist with accommodation, materials and fabrication assistance, a living fee, the round trip ticket to Jerusalem, 24 hour access to a work space as well as access to a darkroom, workshop facilities and office equipment to enable artists to produce and present their work in Jerusalem. Furthermore, we engage local institutions from Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Ramallah in cooperative activities with relation to the artist-in-residence program.
Upon prior agreement with the artists, selected artworks produced are safeguarded and form the Collection of Al-Ma'mal Foundation, which we aspire to develop as the nucleus of a Contemporary Art Museum – Palestine (CAMP). |
| Beat Streuli / Ayreen Anastas / Ayse Erkmen / Emily Jacir / Jananne Al-Ani / Luc Chery / Peter Riedlinger /
Phil Collins / Raeda Saadeh / Rosalind Nashashibi / Scarlett Hooft Graafalnd / Sobhi Zubaidi / Zeyad Dajani / Zoe Leonard /
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Ayse Erkmen
2003/1994
Ayse Erkman proposed to work with the Qalqilya Zoo, particularly with the stuffed/taxidermic animals there. What interested her, was the transformation of the Zoo into a natural history museum by freezing and saving life along with stories that are unfortunately/ sadly funny; "Brownie the giraffe dying while fleeing from the sounds of a gunfire, falling down and breaking his neck and ten days later his pregnant partner Rudi having a miscarriage because of sorrow and Brownie and his unborn giraffe son being stuffed to stand together in a special exhibition space inside the zoo."
Unfortunately, due to the political situation at the time and the impossability of entering Qalqilya in 2004 because of seizures and imposed curfews on Qalqilya by the Israeli army, Erkman could not realize this project. The project was therefore postponed to a later date.
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