Al-Ma'mal - Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem...

Artist in Residence Workshops Presentations & Creative Encounters Exhibitions

New Gate, Old City
Jerusalem 91145
P.O.Box 14644
T: (+972) 2 6283457
F: (+972) 2 6272312

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 /

Rosalind Nashashibi

2003

Born in London in 1973. Lives and works in Glasgow.

Nashashibi participated in Al-Ma�mal�s artist-in-residence program in 2003, executing a video work concentrated on the Dahiet al-Bareed neighbourhood, a small Palestinian neighbourhood outside of Jerusalem. In Dahiet al-Bareed, Nashashibi was interested in capturing the rhythm of a usual afternoon in the Arab suburb by giving attention to a particular sense of place, reflecting on the area as both hectic and slow, with a nervous and unpredictable energy; the burning piles of rubbish for example, are the most visible signs of such neglect mirrored by the fact that the filmed neighbourhood is a kind of no-man�s-land, without any real jurisdiction.

Nashashibi�s technique is a kind of watching and waiting, with the films being a testament to the presence of the watcher, as well as a record of what took place before the artist�s eyes. Her film work is always directed to her environment and the people in her immediate surrounding. She is concerned with developing an interesting relationship between the moving and the static on film; a relationship through time as well as space. Her subjects are pedestrians, cars, buildings, trees, and litter disturbed by the wind.

Exhibitions include: Palestine International Video Festival, Beirut (2002). Global Economy, Les Recontres de Video Arts Plastiques, Centre d�Art Contemporain de Basse Normandie. Getting Closer, La Centrale, Montreal. Oeuvres d�etre -works of being- opera d�essere, Temple Gallery, Rome (2001). True Matter, Constantine Bokhorov, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow (2000). New Work, Lime Gallery, CalArts, California (1999).

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