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New Gate, Old City
Jerusalem 91145
P.O.Box 14644
T: (+972) 2 6283457
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Museum of Contemporary Art – Palestine (CAMP):
The Museum of Contemporary Art (CAMP) was established to relate to one of the core Palestinian experiences – displacement; as well as to account for the growing collection of visual art that has been safeguarded by Al-Ma’mal over the past ten years. There was/is a need to create a lever for new opportunities, innovative thought, and dynamic multi-cultural activity within, and surrounding Palestinian art, culture, and environment. Our goal is to utilize CAMP to relate to Palestine and its rich and multifaceted textures (traditional/ historical backdrop embedded within contemporary ambitions), while encouraging and strengthening international communications as well. We believe that a contemporary art museum must be a flexible, living organism; an expanding space that will facilitate the realization of cultural projects, empower creative individuals of all nationalities, and avoid stagnation that might otherwise act negatively in like developments. For this reason, we envision CAMP’s essence not solely as a physical place (for that would undermine our working philosophy and limit creative potential), but as an authentic, accessible, and fluid entity, a nomadic site where dialogue, growth, and resourceful experimentation are encouraged.
Our project involves the biennial 'nomadic' movement of CAMP, its cumulative art collection and 'portable' structure. Every year, CAMP will find a temporary 'home' under the auspices of a 'host museum.' The 'host museums' – located across the globe – will be invited to interact with CAMP's presence and to initiate projects and exhibitions.
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| Alban Biaussat / Anne-Marie Filaire / Ayreen Anastas / Ayse Erkmen / Beat Streuli / Desiree Palmen / Emily Jacir /
Jananne Al-Ani / Jean-Luc Vilmouth / Jean-Marc Bustamante / Luc Chery / Mario Rizzi / Mona Hatoum / Nicolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen /
Peter Riedlinger / Phil Collins / Raeda Saadeh / Rineke Dijkstra / Rosalind Nashashibi / Samir Srouji / Scarlett Hooft Graafland /
Suzan Hijab / Zeyad Dajani / Zoe Leonard /
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Ayse Erkmen
work in progress-Qalqilya Zoo
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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