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31/10/2012

Qalandiya International

Various cities, towns and villages across Palestine, Jerusalem

Qalandiya International (QI) is a biennial event that takes place across Palestinian cities, towns, and villages. It focuses on exhibiting contemporary Palestinian and international art, highlighting valuable architectural sites, and includes talks, walks and performances.
QI, in its first take, is a collaboration between A. M. Qattan Foundation, the House of Culture and Art, International Art Academy- Palestine, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Al-Ma'mal Foundation, Palestinian Art Gallery- Al Hoash, and Riwaq in an attempt to pool resources and work collectively towards showcasing and promoting contemporary culture in Palestine, locally and internationally. It is an attempt to engage the local public in programs that are not straitjacketed by realpolitik, and to allow them to look at art in a more imaginative and open manner. It is an attempt to join forces and resources and form links across a fragmented geography; a take on unity.

The QI program encompasses a diversity of newly commissioned projects and presentations as various as the institutions involved, it is inclusive rather than exclusive, interdisciplinary, and open allowing engagement, and even implication.

Why Qalandiya?
For the past decade, “Qalandiya” has been associated with the infamous Israeli checkpoint that continues to suffocate the West Bank disconnecting it from Jerusalem and the rest of the world. This checkpoint has been highly pervasive in the media and in the visual and literary works produced in and about Palestine. Countless stories about Palestinians’ daily suffering and subjugation take place there, offering sad but true glimpses of the oppressive regime of the occupation. However, “Qalandiya” suggests other connotations that have been deliberately smeared or totally erased over the years, but which, with a more intimate look, could be uncovered: the Qalandiya Airport, for example (or the Jerusalem International Airport as it was initially called), the Qalandiya refugee camp, and Qalandiya village (which the Wall has divided into two separate parts). Qalandiya is where many paradoxes meet. It was the point of connection with the rest of the world until 1967 and became today the symbol of disconnection, isolation, segregation and fragmentation in 2000.

Qalandiya International will utilize the name and its multilayered and contradictory meanings in an event that seeks to perpetuate the true Palestine brand on the international cultural scene, while allowing a taste of the experience embedded in the symbolic paradox of Qalandiya.

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PROGRAM

Thursday 1.11.2012

Inauguration of Qalandiya International, Qalandiya village

12:30 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah | Qalandiya International press conference.

17:00 | Qalandiya Village | Qalandiya International official inauguration: opening notes. View works by Dirar Kalash (audio-visual performance); Nahed
Awwad (film screening of Five Minutes from Home); and Khaled Jarrar (Concrete, 2012).
Buses leave for Qalandiya Village at 16:30 from Riwaq. To register, please contact Riwaq.

Friday 2.11.2012

14:00 – 16:00 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah | Palestinian artists portfolio presentation.

18:00 | The Centre for Jerusalem Studies, Al-Quds University, Old City | Gestures in Time – Jerusalem Show VI Opening and tour guided by exhibition
curators Katya-Garcia Anton and Lara Khaldi to Hammam Al Ayn and Hammam Al Shifa to view works by Rheim Alkadhi, Erick Beltran, Martin Soto Climent,
Julia Rometti & Victor Costales, Subversive Film, Wafa Hourani, and Uriel Orlow.

19:00 | The Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jerusalem Old City | Gestures in Time – Jerusalem Show VI. Performance by poet Quinn Latimer

20:30 | Al-Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem Old City | Gestures in Time – Jerusalem Show VI tour continues to view works by Ruanne Abou Rahme & Basel
Abbas, Amjad Ghannam, Shahryar Nashat, Tom Nicholson, Cornelia Parker, Amer Shomali, Ra’ouf Haj Yahia and Mohammed Al Hawajri.

21:00 | Al-Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem Old City | Jerusalem Show VI opening reception.

Saturday 3.11.2012

11:00 | Abwein Historic Centre | Gestures in Time – 4th Riwaq Biennale opening tour. View works by Jumana Emil Abboud (Eye of the Tiger: Hide,
performance), Marie Zolamian ( Les Cracs des Chevaliers, tour with six young boys from Abwein), Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh (presentation without title, a lecture
performance), Nardeen Srouji (Injection, installation) and Uriel Orlow (Specters in Stones, an audio walk).
Buses leave for Abwein at 10:30 from Riwaq, Al-Bireh. To register, please contact Riwaq.

16:00 | Al-Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah | Opening tour of The Young Artist of the Year 2012 – The Hassan Hourani Award. Tour continues to the French
German Cultural Centre, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center and Idioms Film, ending at the A. M. Qattan Foundation.

19:00 | A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah | The Young Artist of the Year 2012 – The Hassan Hourani Award, reception for the announcement of the winners
of the award.

18:00 | YMCA, Gaza | The Young Artist of the Year 2012 – The Hassan Hourani Award opening ceremony and reception. Gaza exhibition curated by
Mohammad Musallam.

Sunday 4.11.2012

10:00 – 15:00 | Al-Quds University Modern Media Center, Al-Bireh | Symposium: Modernity, Architecture and Urban Life in the Arab Region. Organized by
Riwaq and the Studio-X Global Network from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.

14:00 – 16:00 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah | Palestinian artists portfolio presentation.

16:00 | Birzeit Historic Centre | Artists in Residence exhibition opening and tour of works by Marie Zolamian, Roberta Gigante and Laure Deselys. A
collaboration between Riwaq and Centre Wallon d'Art Contemporain - La Châtaigneraie.

18:20 | Yabous Cultural Center, Jerusalem | Gestures in Time – film screening of Ciprian Muresan’s Untitled (45 mins).

19:00 | The International Academy of Art – Palestine, Al-Bireh | Disarming Design from Palestine exhibition opening. Tour continues to Ramallah Gallery,
Karmel Building, Irsal St; and Firas Woodwork and Decor, Ramallah Industrial Zone. Works by Khaled Jarrar, Samir Salhi, Ma'mon Shretih, Amer Amin,
Khaled Hourani, Annelys Devet, Rudy J. Luijters, Wafa Meri, Jawad Malhi, Sami Liftawi, Majd Abdel Hamid, Sami Musa, Bashar Hasuneh, Majdi Hadid, and
Dina Khalil. As well as Nahed Awwad (Five Minutes from Home, film screening), and Mohamed Abouelnaga (Four Trees from Tahrir Square, installation).

Parallel Events:
15:00 | Harb House, Ramallah | City of Mirages: Baghdad 1952 – 1982 exhibition curated by Pedro Azara.
17:00 | Yabous Cultural Center, Jerusalem | The Palestinian Counselling Center, Al Irshad presents Face to Face, Nasser Zalloum solo exhibition

Monday 5.11.2012

11:00 | Hajja and Jamma’in historic centres | Gestures in Time – 4th Riwaq Biennale tour. Works by Jumana Emil Abboud (Eye of the Tiger: Wound,
installation), Poster Sculpture 3 by Matias Faldbakken, and Collective Knotting Together of Hairs by Rheim Al Kadhi.
Buses leave for Hajja and Jamma’in at 10:00 from Riwaq, Al-Bireh. To register, please contact Riwaq.

18:00 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center | Book launch for Dispositions edited by Adania Shibli. Publishers: Welfare Association, A.M Qattan Foundation,
Consulate General of France in Jerusalem and Ministry of Culture – Palestine. Event organized by A.M Qattan Foundation.

20:00 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center | Music in the Attic: Tasarruf I, Collective music performance with musicians Samer Jaradat, Mohamed Najem, Ibrahim
Najem, and Basel Zayed.

Tuesday 6.11.2012

10:00 | Arafat Mausoleum, Al-Bireh | Walk Ramallah! a guided tour by Khaldun Bshara. Tour passes through the city center and ends in Ramallah Old City.
Organized by Riwaq.

14:00 – 16:00 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center | Palestinian artists portfolio presentation.

18:00 | Al Hoash, Jerusalem | Mustafa Hallaj: Diasporic Meanings, A Retrospect, with a film screening and opening address by the curator, to be followed by
a reception.

18:20 | Yabous Cultural Center, Jerusalem | Gestures in Time – film screening of Ciprian Muresan’s Untitled (45 mins).

19:00 – 22:00 | Educational Bookshop Café - Jerusalem, Beit Aneeseh - Ramallah and at Radio Beirut, Lebanon | Gestures in Time – Jerusalem Show VI.
The Pessoptimist Marathon: contemporary encounters with Saeed. A live streaming audio performance by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Marwa Arsanios at
the Educational Bookshop Cafe, Salah Eddin St., Jerusalem and Beit Aneeseh Restaurant and Bar in Ramallah and at Radio Beirut, Lebanon, 18:00 – 22:00

21:30 | Beit Aneeseh Restaurant and Bar, Ramallah | Gestures in Time – Jerusalem Show VI. Palmystery, palm reading and tattooing performance by Wafa
Hourani.

Wednesday 7.11.2012

11:00 | Dhahiriya historic center | Gestures in Time – 4th Riwaq Biennale tour and viewing of A Cave in Dhahiriya by Socratis Socratous and O Rinoceronte
de Dürer (Dürer’s Rhinoceros) film by Javier Telléz.
Buses leave for Dhahiriya at 9:00 from Riwaq, Al-Bireh. To register, please contact Riwaq.

14:00 | Hebron Old City | tour with the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee.

14:00 – 16:00 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center | Palestinian artists portfolio presentation.

18:00 | Al Kasabeh Theatre and Cinematheque, Ramallah | film screening of Picasso in Palestine presented by the International Academy of Art - Palestine.

Thursday 8.11.2012

11:20 | Yabous Cultural Center, Jerusalem | Gestures in Time – film screening of Javier Telléz’s O Rinoceronte de Dürer (‘Dürer’s Rhinoceros’, 41 mins,
Arabic subtitles).

16:00 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah | Art Publications Production Panel with Adila Laidi Hanieh, Nicola Gray, Khaled Hourani, Jack Persekian,
Adania Shibli, Rawan Sharaf, and Mahmoud Abu Hashhash. (event will be in English and Arabic)

19:00 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center | Book launch for The Architectonics of Loss: The question of Palestinian contemporary culture by Esmail Nashif.

22:00 | Beit Aneeseh Restaurant & Bar, Ramallah | Unfold the Plan – dance party by Ashkan Sepavahand with Discodromo, the DJ-duo consisting of
Giacomo Garavelloni and Giovanni Turco. and local DJ (TBA) - as part of the project unfold the plan by Ashkan Sepahvand organized by Khalil Sakakini
Cultural Center in collaboration with Goethe institute Ramallah.

Parallel event
10:00 – 18:30 | Columbia Global Center - Middle East, Amman | Symposium: Modernity, Architecture and Urban Life in the Arab Region. Organized
by Riwaq and the Studio-X Global Network from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.

Friday 9.11.2012

14:00 – 16:00 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah | Palestinian artists portfolio presentation.

17:00 | Educational Bookshop, Jerusalem | Presentation, panel discussion and book launch of Bashir Makhoul a retrospect monograph, Editors: Dr. August
Jordan Davis, Prof. Jonathan Harris. Published by Al Hoash.

19:00 | Beit Aneeseh Restaurant & Bar, Ramallah | Unfold the Plan lecture performance by Ashkan Sepavahand. Organized by Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

in collaboration with Goethe Institute Ramallah.

Saturday 10.11.2012

14:00 | Tour of Nazareth by Sharif Safadi. Buses leave from Jerusalem at the Jerusalem Hotel at 11:00. To register please contact Al-Ma’mal.

16:00 | Mahmoud Darwish Cultural Center - Nazareth | Fragments of an Image curated by Manar Zuabi, Exhibition opening. Works by Ameera Zeyan, Layali
Qhawish, and Nardeen Srouji.

18:00 | The House of Culture and Art, Nazareth | Annual exhibition for Nazarene artists – 1948 1967 curated by Farid Abu Shakra, Works by Samir Srouji,
Raafat Zreiq, Ruba Salameh, Rashad Deek, Michael Halak, Fatima Abu Rumi, Ashraf Fawakhry, and Ammar Younis.
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20:00 | Sudfe Gallery & Restaurant, Nazareth | Video Dance curated by Manar Zuabi and texts exhibition Topography of the Body curated by Raji Bathish.
Participating writers: Alaa Hlehel, Lana Edwan, Wisam Gibran, Mustafa Qasqasi, Maya Abul Hayyat, Saleem Albeik, Asmaa B. Atawna, Mona Daher, Faris
Maqbaa, Muhammad Jabali, Husni Al Khatib Shehadeh. Opening reception and Music concert.

18:00 | International Art Academy, Ramallah | Mustafa Hallaj: Diasporic Meanings, panel discussion on story telling, myth and folklore in Palestinian art.
Organized by Al Hoash.

Sunday 11.11.2012

11:00 | Hajja and Jamma’in historic centers | Gestures in Time – 4th Riwaq Biennale tour. Works by Jumana Emil Abboud (Eye of the Tiger: Wound,
installation), Poster Sculpture 3 by Matias Faldbakken and Collective Knotting Together of Hairs by Rheim Al Kadhi.
Buses leave for Hajja and Jamma’in at 10:00 from Riwaq, Al-Bireh. To register, please contact Riwaq.

20:00 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center | Music in the Attic: Tasarruf II, Collective music performance with musicians Samer Jaradat, Mohamed Najem,
Ibrahim Najem, and Basel Zayed.

Monday 12.11.2012

11:00 | Abwein historic center | Gestures in Time – 4th Riwaq Biennale tour. Works by Jumana Emil Abboud (Eye of the Tiger: Hide, performance), Yasmine
Eid-Sabbagh (presentation without title, a lecture performance), Nardeen Srouji (Injection, installation) and Uriel Orlow (Specters in Stones, an audio walk).
Buses leave for Abwein at 10:30 from Riwaq, Al-Bireh. To register, please contact Riwaq.

Tuesday 13.11.2012

11:00 | Dhahiriya Historic Centre | Gestures in Time – 4th Riwaq Biennale tour. View A Cave in Dhahiriya by Socratis Socratous, and Javier Telléz’s film O
Rinoceronte de Dürer (Dürer’s Rhinoceros)
Buses leave for Dhahiriya at 9:00 from Riwaq, Al-Bireh. To register, please contact Riwaq.

Wednesday 14.11.2012

11:20 | Yabous Cultural Center, Jerusalem | Gestures in Time – screening of Javier Telléz’s O Rinoceronte de Dürer (‘Dürer’s Rhinoceros’, 45 mins, Arabic
subtitles).

18:20 | Yabous Cultural Center, Jerusalem | Gestures in Time – film screening of Ciprian Muresan’s Untitled (45 mins).

19:00 | French Cultural Center, Salah Eddin St. Jerusalem | Gestures in Time – Jerusalem Show VI tour with curators Katya Garcia-Anton and Lara Khaldi.
View works by Julia Rometti & Victor Costales. Proceed to Hammam Al Ayn and Hammam Al Shifa, Old City, to view works by Rheim Alkadhi, Erick Beltran,
Martin Soto Climent, Julia Rometti & Victor Costales, Subversive Film, and Uriel Orlow. Tour continues to the Tile Factory and Al Ma’mal Lab in New Gate
to view works by Ruanne Abou Rahme & Basel Abbas, Amjad Ghannam, Wafa Hourani, Ciprian Muresan, Tom Nicholson, Cornelia Parker, Amer Shomali,
Ra’ouf Haj Yahia and Mohammed Al Hawajri.

Thursday 15.11.2012

19:00 | Qalandiya International Closing Event.

Contacts

Riwaq
Nablus street, Al Sharafeh
Al Bireh
tel 02-2406887
info@riwaq.org
www.riwaq.org

Al-Ma’mal
New Gate, Old City
Jerusalem
tel 02-6283457
info@almamalfoundation.org
www.almamalfoundation.org

Al Hoash
Azzahra street
Jerusalem
tel 02-6273501
info@alhoashgallery.org
www.alhoashgallery.org

A. M. Qattan Foundation
Al Jihad street
Ramallah
02-2960544, ext. 201
yaya@qattanfoundation.org
www.qattanfoundation.org

Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre
Al Hajal street
Ramallah
02-2987374/5
admin@sakakini.org
www.sakakini.org

International Art Academy – Palestine
Al Nahdha street
Al Bireh
02-2967601
info@artacademy.ps
www.artacademy.ps

The House of Culture and Arts
Al Mutran square, Old City
Nazareth
04-6576322
info@daraart.org
www.daraart.org

On-going exhibitions:

The Young Artist of the Year Award 2012, the Hassan Hourani Award:
November 3 - 15
Open daily except Fridays
Opening hours: 10:00 - 18:00
Venues:
Idioms Film (Ramallah)
A. M. Qattan Foundation (Ramallah)

Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre (Ramallah)
The French German Cultural Centre (Ramallah)
Al Mahatta Gallery (Ramallah)
YMCA (Gaza)

Gestures in Time
In Jerusalem
November 2 - 15
Gallery Anadiel, Al-Ma’mal LAB, The Tile Factory, Centre for Jerusalem Studies - Al Quds University
open daily, opening hours 18:00 – 21:00

Gestures in Time
In Abwein and Dhahiriya
November 3 - 15
open daily except Fridays, opening hours 10:00 - 16:00

In Hajja and Jamma’in
November 5 – 15
open daily except Fridays, opening hours 10:00 – 16:00

Mustafa Hallaj: Diasporic Meanings, a retrospect
November 6, 2012 – February 28, 2013
Al Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem
open daily, except Sundays
1-5 November 10:00 –17:00
6-15 November 10:00 – 20:00

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November 2, 2012 to February 28, 2013
The House of Culture and Arts, Nazareth

Monday through Thursday and Saturday, open 10:00 - 15:00
Friday, open 10:00 - 17:30

Fragments of an Image
November 10 to 30
Mahmoud Darwish Cultural Center
Monday 9:00 – 13:00
Tuesday 9:00 – 13:00
16:00 – 19:30
Saturday 13:00 – 19:30

Parallel events
Face to Face, Nasser Zalloum solo exhibition
November 4 to 6
Yabous Cultural Center presented by The Palestinian Counseling Center – Al Irshad
opening hours 10:00 – 18:00

City of Mirages: Baghdad 1952 – 1982
November 4 to 15
Harb House, Ramallah
open daily 12:00 – 18:00

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As part of QALANDIYA INTERNATIONAL Al Ma'mal Foundation and Riwaq present ‘GESTURES IN TIME’

An international exhibition curated by Katya Garcia-Anton and Lara Khaldi, featuring 30 participants who explore the individual gesture as a motor for aesthetic and social creation.

Ramallah/Jerusalem: Qalandiya International, Palestine contemporary art event to take place between 1 to 15 November presents the exhibition, Gestures in Time featuring 26 art projects that embrace the fields of dance, design, poetry, theatre, performance and the visual arts, in order to expand the possibilities of their work.

Of these, 17 participants are from Palestine, the Middle East and its related Diaspora (Iran and Iraq included); 13 are from further afield internationally. 21 new commissions have been specially created for the exhibition through a series of urban and rural residencies taking place in the lead up to the biennial in different locations.

The exhibition which is produced by Riwaq Biennial and The Jerusalem Show and supported by the European Union, the Representative Office of the Federal Republic of Germany Ramallah, the British Council, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, The French Consulate, Jerusalem, IKON Gallery, Pro Helvetia, and Rana Sadik & Samer Younis, takes place in urban and rural locations in Birzeit, Abwein, Dhahiriya, Hajjah, Jamma’in, Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Starting with the questions “what does gesture mean to you?” and “do you live in the present moment?” the exhibition is being developed through a particular understanding in the polis as a series of individual, interconnecting, stages of immediacy and engagement. As a result of this the public space and performative strategies will feature strongly in the project. “Gestures in Time” relies as much on the works presented by the artists to activate the significance of the contemporary.

Katya Garcia-Anton, the co-curator explains: “‘Gestures in Time’ was conceived as an opportunity to invite a group of artists local and international to conduct local discussions and research trips, in order to open up a dialogue around aspects of their work which find echo with “Gestures in Time”, within and beyond the region. The exhibition is anchored to the precise geographic, historic, poetic and political location of Palestine. Yet Palestine’s imbrications in the wider international perspective gives the project an overall international resonance. All the questions addressed by local, regional and international artists resonate within and beyond this geography. “

She adds “From this expanded perspective, artists in “Gestures in Time” consider the urgency to ‘intervene’ the visual and textual present by fracturing the everyday forms that defined the world in the recent past, enabling a radical re-interpretation and reconstruction of the present moment.”

From this expanded perspective, artists in “Gestures in Time” consider the urgency to ‘intervene’ the visual and textual present by fracturing the everyday forms that defined the world in the recent past, enabling a radical re-interpretation and reconstruction of the present moment. The affirmation that the present is incomplete and that, therefore, it falsifies the construction of future History, is a pivotal notion within this exhibition. For these artists the very notion of “historical progress” is a cruel illusion. The gesture becomes a form of poetic and performative unbinding of progress; a force of construction and individual creation.

Participants
Ruanne abu Rahme,&Basel Abbas, (Palestine), Jumana Emil Abboud (Palestine), Erick Beltrán (Mexico), Martin Soto Climent (Mexico), Julia Rometti (France) & Victor Costales (Ecuador/Belorussia) & MatiasFaldbakken (Norway), Amjad Ghannam (Palestine), Marwa Arsanios (Lebanon/USA)& Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Lebanon/Great Britian), Mohammed Al Hawajri (Palestine), Wafa Hourani (Palestine),Rheim AlKadhi (Iraq/USA), Quinn Latimer (USA/Switzerland) & guests, Bruno Munari (Italy),Ciprian Muresan (Romania), Sharyar Nashat (Iran/Switzerland),Tom Nicholson (Australia), Uriel Orlow (Switzerland/Great Britian),Cornelia Parker (Great Britian), Yasmine Eid- Sabbagh(Palestine, Lebanon, Germany), Amer Shomali (Palestine), SocratisSocratous (Cyprus), Nardeen Srouji(Palestine), Subversive Film (Palestine), Javier Telléz (Venezuela), and Ra’ouf Haj Yahia (Palestine).

Image: Ra’ouf Haj Yehia, Untitled, 2012, rifle made out of cotton, live twitter streaming

For Media enquiries:
Email: press@qalandiyainternational.org
+972-2-2429105
+972-599782995

Various cities, towns and villages across Palestine

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