Image:Young girls at the Women's Activity Centre in Qalandiya playing a game of basketball during the 1950. Courtesy of UNRWA Archive.
QALANDIYA INTERNATIONAL
Public Symposium
Palestine Biennial, Jerusalem
Oct. 22 – Nov. 15, 2014
Qalandiya International
New Gate, Old city
Box 14644
Jerusalem 91145
Palestine
THU, NOV 13, 2014
10:00 TO 16:00
The International Academy of Art, Palestine , Aref Al-Aref Building, Behind Arab Bank, Al-Bireh Branch, Al-Bireh – Ramallah.
Lecturer(s)
Public Symposium: “Location, Location, Location”
Four International academic speakers / artists in a 4 hour session for public audience will examine the tired language of “centers versus peripheries”, the challenges of institutional agency, as well as the representational burdens and blessings of contemporary art.
Can an intelligent definition of the “local” escape the quandaries of representation? How can a local institution be proactive within this debate, at this moment in time? How can a given town stake a claim? And also: how is an urban “location” to be accounted for in the first place.
A city is an abstraction, just like an era or a decade, but we rarely acknowledge it as such. Accounting for the catachresis that is a city, and for the quiet developments mentioned above, is what underlies the idea of “location”.
Organized by: The International Academy of Art, Palestine
For further information:
http://themetropolitancomplex.com
www.qalandiyainternational.org/events/public-symposium-“location-location-location”
