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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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Emily Jacir
2002
Born 1970. Lives and works in Ramallah and New York
Living between Ramallah and New York, Jacir’s residency time in Jerusalem in 2002 was utilized to create an artwork inspired by the very personal idea of displacement that so many Palestinians endure. Where We Come From/(Im)mobility is based on the artist’s “freedom of movement” as a Palestinian with an American passport. Jacir utilized her passport to access Palestine for Palestinians who are denied the freedom to go to their own homeland and/or to move freely within it. She asked them to send her their requests of what they wanted her to do for them, and with her “golden ticket” (her U.S. passport), Jacir was able to move freely, circumventing barriers and connecting people to their homeland, their wishes, their dreams. In the very act of connecting people to their homeland by fulfilling their requests, Jacir’s work ascertains and documents their disconnection as well.
Jacir’s desire is to shed light on the absurdity of displacement by showing the adversities exiles suffer over things that most of us take for granted, and in so doing, the artist reassembles the fragments of diaspora. Jacir identifies with the subjects by acting out their wishes (gestures), thus becoming an extension of their will: becoming them even, and it is in this way that her work reflects on the mobility of exile itself as a shifting form of identification, drifting from geographical displacements to psychic splits to moral contradictions. (Jack Persekian)
Jacir’s solo exhibitions include, The O-K Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria in 2003, and at the University Gallery in Sewanee Tenasee in 2000. Jacir has participated in several group exhibitions that include, Veil, The New Art Gallery Walsall, England; The Museum of Modern Art Oxford (2003). Unjustified, Apex Art, New York; Submerged, Kunstbunker Nuremberg, Germany (2002). Made in Transit, Vacancy Gallery in New York (2001). Ekbatana, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (2000).</P>
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