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.MED.NEWS
11-05-2007
Beirut, Lebanon
GEO ART - Re-Thinking Beirut. Reconstruction, art et société, by Claudia Zanfi.
source: babel med
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09-05-2007
London, England
07 May 2007 - National Day of Action & Celebration - rally in support of 'illegal' migrants in London.
'Strangers into Citizens' is a campaign by the Citizen Organising Foundation and London Citizens.
source: strangers into citizen
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07-05-2007
Fortress Europe - April Report
April 2007 report: 28 victims at the border, 3 in Greece, 2 in Algeria, 2 on the coast of Malaga, in Spain, and 21 on the way to Canary islands. Concern over deportations in Morocco and Libya, while Eu approved rapid border intervention teams.
source: Fortress Europe
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06-05-2007
Lampedusa, Italy
Italian Government opens for the first time to journalists the CPT in Lampedusa.
source: melting pot
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04-05-2007
Sangatte, France
Reportage from 'Il Manifesto': journey in the woods near a former CPT close to Calais where still hundreds of migrants live waiting to get to the UK.
source: melting pot
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.EXHIBITIONS.
B.I.S. has initiated its activity with two long-term projects that will be carried out through artistic practices (site-specific and interactive installations, video and short films, urban interventions) and theoretical investigations that will be published on the website.
AL-BUNDUQIA: the last venetian souvenir
at Site^Insight Exhibition, A+A Gallery, Venice, 2006
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This is what we have: In Arabic 'AL-Bunduqia' is the name used for the City of Venice. It's a unique case because the word in Arabic has no resemblance to 'Venice' (Venezia in Italian) and it's maybe the only city name that has a word of its own in Arabic.
The word 'AL-Bunduqia' has two meanings: A possible explanation of why this word is used for Venice in Arabic is due to the vibrant trade that took place between the city of Venice and the Islamic Empire.
Traces of memory. And language. Or memory as trace; if every work of memory is a work of recollection but at the same time a work of forgetting. Here is what we have: hazelnuts, a rifle (with its bullets and gunpowder), a city (in the background): Venice. Memory turned towards the past: a souvenir. Memory turned towards the future: a promise. This is what we have: the last souvenir as it was the first one.
b) hazelnuts sweets (from Bunduq=hazelnut).
CORPORATE BOMBER
at The Rider Project 06, New York City, 2006
The project aims to tackle the politics of fear spread around our western societies within the strategy against the international terroristic movements. Laymen, normal people, the next to us, will be displaied as suicide bombers in unexpected sites, as they've just missed they're target, landing by chance in your backyard.
The idea is to bring together the fear appeal, which wants the next to us as the terrorist, and the image of the suicide bomber, which seems to be a shadow walking around our western metropolis.
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