Francis Alys : sometimes doing something poetic can become political and sometimes doing something political can become poetic : The green line - Jerusalem 2004-2005 / a project by Francis Alys in collaboration with Julien Devaux, Philippe Bellaiche, and Rachel Leah Jones.

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David Zwirner (Gallery)

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Description:

100 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 21 cm + 1 DVD

Notes:
This project was first exhibited at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, as part of the Lindy and Ed Bergman Visiting Artists Program, August 11 - November 26, 2005.
This book / DVD is published on the occasion of the exhibition dated February 15 - March 17, 2007 at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York.
Parallel text in English, Hebrew and Arabic.

Summary:

"The exhibition presented a film by Alÿs in collaboration with Julien Devaux alongside a map of the artist's journey, photocollages, paintings, drawings, and a group of sculptures. The film shows Alÿs carrying a dripping can of green paint along the armistice boundary that Moshe Dayan marked on a map with green pencil after Israel's War of Independence ended in 1948. It questions the physicality and cultural relevance of the Green Line, its function as a social and spiritual division in the city of Jerusalem, and its role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. This trilingual exhibition catalogue features interviews conducted by Alÿs with eleven activists, academics, and journalists (Ruben Aberjil, Albert Agazarian, Yael Dayan, Jean Fisher, Rima Hamami, Amira Hass, Nazmi Jobeh, Yael Lerer, Eyal Sivan, Michael Warschawski, Eyal Weizman). Also included are a fold-out map and DVD of the film with options to listen to the recorded interviews."

ISBN:

0976913674
9780976913672

Subject:

Alÿs, Francis, 1959- Exhibitions.
Alÿs, Francis, 1959-

Form/genre:

Artists' books.
Exhibition publications.
Optical disks.
DVDs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Artists' books 21st century.

Added entries:

Devaux, Julien.
Bellaiche, Philippe.
Jones, Rachel Leah.
Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem)

Sometimes doing something poetic can become political and sometimes doing something political can become poetic
Green line - Jerusalem 2004-2005

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Location: Library main 255786
Call No.: BIB 186063
Status: Available

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