Territories
dal 14/11/2003 al 4/1/2004
Segnalato da
Nadav Harel
Nir Kafri
Joachim Koester
Milutin Labudovic
Armin Linke
Multiplicity
Sharon Rotbard
Rafi Segal
Eran Schaerf
Sean Snyder
Eyal Weizman
Anselm Franke
14/11/2003
Territories
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Territories examines the production of space, its conquest, occupation, defense, and control. It assembles works by architects and artists engaged in examining these strategic territorial features and questioning their mechanisms of representation.
Issues of Space
After its presentation at Kunst-Werke in Berlin this summer, Witte de With is
proud to present the exhibition Territories. Territories was curated by Anselm
Franke, in collaboration with the architects Eyal Weizman, Rafi Segal and
Stefano Boeri. Territories examines the production of space, its conquest,
occupation, defense, and control. It assembles works by architects and artists
engaged in examining these strategic territorial features and questioning
their mechanisms of representation. The projects reflect the increasing
interest in interdisciplinary methods and practices in the fields of
geography, architecture and the planning of space.
Participants: An Architektur, Ariella Azoulay, Amir Balaban, Sharon Balaban,
Yael Bartana, Daniel Bauer, Stefano Boeri, Zvi Efrat, Nadav Harel, Nir Kafri,
Joachim Koester, Milutin Labudovic, Armin Linke, Multiplicity, Sharon Rotbard,
Rafi Segal, Eran Schaerf, Sean Snyder, Eyal Weizman.
At Witte de With, the exhibition's main focus is the examination of the
political role of architecture in Israel and the Middle East. The territories
of Israel and Palestine provide an intense and violent "laboratory" for the
working of a territorial conflict of global significance. It presents us with
an arsenal of extreme conditions in which global and generic forms are
organized by national, religious and strategic imperative.
November 22, 2 - 6 p.m. TERRITORIES, DISCUSSION 1: The Politics of
Verticality. The West Bank as an Architectural Construction With: Ariella
Azoulay, Catherine David, Zvi Efrat (to be confirmed), Anselm Franke, Efrat
Shvily, Paola Yacoub / Michel Lasserre, Eyal Weizman. BOOK LAUNCH: New Homes
in Israel and the Occupied Territories by Efrat Shvily; Beirut is a
Magnificent City. Synoptic Pictures by Paola Yacoub / Michel Lasserre.
Witte de With Center
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Rotterdam