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New Gate, Old City
Jerusalem 91145
P.O.Box 14644
T: (+972) 2 6283457
F: (+972) 2 6272312 |
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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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Zeyad Dajani
2004/2003
In the mid-1960’s King Hussein of Jordan began building a royal palace in Jerusalem. The structure was conceived as two rectangles, intersecting at right angles, forming a cross along the North-South, East-West axes. Designed as a two-storey building, it was to allow for vast panoramic views from all directions. Strategically located on an elevated hilltop on the road to Ramallah, the palace would give a clear and uninterrupted line of vision across the Dead Sea and Jordan Valley to the Jordanian capital Amman, a sightline that symbolically bridges the two cities, crossing and uniting the landscape in between. Construction on the building stopped when Jordan was defeated in the 1967 war. The palace, the King’s ambition and desire to leave a legacy in Jerusalem, now stands abandoned and unfinished, out of time and place. It is an anomaly, iconically overlooking the city.
Out of Place came about during my residency with Al-Ma’mal in 2003. This was my first visit to Palestine having grown up a Palestinian in Jordan. (Zeyad Dajani)
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