Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Basma Alsharif
Ayman Alazraq
Knut Asdam
Nasrin Abu Baker
Kaya Behkalam
Neil Beloufa
Nicholas Brooks
Karen Mirza & Brad Butler
Phil Collins
Fahed Halabi & Ala Farhat
Ihab Jadallah
Yazan Khalili
Alexander Kluge
Jumana Manna & Sille Storihle
Melanie Manchot
Mohammed Musallam
Peter Snowdon
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Mike Crane
28/5/2014
UHF42
Wattan TV, Ramallah
The month-long screening series broadcast is comprised of twenty recent works by local and international artists, with one film screening every weekday in between the stations regularly scheduled programs. The films resonate with Wattan's syndication through their respective use of cinematic and televisual modes of production.
Organized by: Mike Crane
UHF42 is a month-long screening series broadcast through the live
frequency of Wattan, an independent television station based in
Ramallah, Palestine. The program is comprised of twenty recent works
by local and international artists, with one film screening every weekday
in between the stations regularly scheduled programs. Wattan has
been raided twice and had their frequency shutdown five times by both
Palestinian and Israeli authorities since it was established through the
telecommunications agreement of the Oslo 2 Accords in 1996. The
station continues to provide daily coverage of education, politics, culture,
and sports despite undergoing a destructive raid in February 2012.
The films in this program resonate with Wattan’s syndication through
their respective use of cinematic and televisual modes of production,
which range from documentation of political events, interviews
and geographic settings to fictional depictions of historical figures
and athletic exercises. These works have been selected based on
recommendations by local artists and filmmakers who are familiar with
Wattan and it’s programming. Each film will feature a brief introduction
by Wattan’s daily news anchor. The goal of this series is to initiate
an ongoing program of artist film and video work on Palestinian TV.
UHF42 employs Palestine’s first independent frequency as an exhibition
platform to engage with the moving-images being produced in the
region today, drawing upon the vitality of the television medium under
precarious circumstances.
Featuring work by:
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Basma Alsharif
Ayman Alazraq
Knut Asdam
Nasrin Abu Baker
Kaya Behkalam
Neil Beloufa
Nicholas Brooks
Karen Mirza & Brad Butler
Phil Collins
Fahed Halabi & Ala Farhat
Ihab Jadallah
Yazan Khalili
Alexander Kluge
Jumana Manna & Sille Storihle
Melanie Manchot
Mohammed Musallam
Peter Snowdon
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Mike Crane (b.1982) is an artist raised in Bogota, Colombia, and based in Brooklyn, NY. He earned
his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art.
apexart’s exhibitions and public programs are supported in part by the Affirmation Arts Fund,
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Greenwich Collection Ltd.,
Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Image: Basma Alsharif, Home Movies Gaza, 2013 (video still)
For more information please contact Julia Knight at julia.knight@apexart.org or visit apexart.org/exhibitions/crane.php
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 29: 6-8 pm
Wattan TV
PARC building, Al-Ma’ahid Street - Ramallah, Palestine