BORDER ART
ARTISTS
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EMILY JACIR
Emily Jacir is a New York based Palestinian-American artist. She employs her freedom of movement as a conceptual method to create works that call attention to the plight of Palestinian people.
SEXY SEMITE 2000-2002
Jacir and 60 Palestinians published ads to the Village Voice Personals Section seeking romantic liaisons with Jewish readers. The ads invited them to marry Palestinians, so that the Palestinians could return to their homeland using the Israeli Law of Return.
ARTISTS
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EMILY JACIR
Emily Jacir is a New York based Palestinian-American artist. She employs her freedom of movement as a conceptual method to create works that call attention to the plight of Palestinian people.
SEXY SEMITE 2000-2002
Jacir and 60 Palestinians published ads to the Village Voice Personals Section seeking romantic liaisons with Jewish readers. The ads invited them to marry Palestinians, so that the Palestinians could return to their homeland using the Israeli Law of Return.
WHERE WE COME FROM
Her series Where we come from is an installation project that consists of photographs, video and related texts. She asks Palestinians living in exile this question,
"If I could do anything for you, anywhere in Palestine, what would it be?". Using her American passport, she fulfills these wishes/favors given to her by them, documenting her actions and the places/people that were requested.
This project contemplates the lost homeland.
"Go to Haifa and play soccer with the first Palestinian boy you see on the street."
"Drink the water in my parents' village."
"Go to Bayt Lahia and bring me a photo of my family, specially of my brother's kids."
"Go to the Israeli post office in Jerusalem and pay my phone bill."
"Go to my mother's grave in Jerusalem on her birthday and place flowers and pray."
"Do something on a normal day in Haifa, something I might do if I was living there now."
Jacir's work investigates the boundary between art and life. She contemplates the notion of global mobility and political exile, with an emphasis on Israel's impact on Palestinians. Although her work remains politically provocative and has been controversial due to her portrayal of Israel, she states that her work is " not so directly about Palestine, but about me wandering through space and time".
SAMSON YOUNG
LIQUID BORDERS
SAMSON YOUNG
LIQUID BORDERS
LISTEN TO LIQUID BORDER, SOUND FILE
Artist Statement"
Hong Kong and Mainland China are physically separated by the Shenzhen River and a great wall of wired fencing. South to the border are restricted zones known as the Frontier Closed Area. Entry into the Frontier Closed Area without an official permit is strictly forbidden. In October 2005, the then chief executive Donald Tsang announced a proposal to drastically reduce the Frontier Closed Area. In February 2012, 740 hectares of land were initially opened up for public access. The proposal will be implemented in phases, and other areas will soon follow suit. Liquid Borders is a sound project that seeks to sonically archive the Hong Kong-China border. Since July 2012, I had been systemically collecting the sound of places and/or objects that separate the two regions. I recorded the vibration of the wired fencing with contact microphones, and the water sounds of the Shenzhen River with hydrophones. I rearranged these recordings into sound compositions. I then re-transcribed these sound collages into graphical notations. I started with the newly opened up Tsim Bei Tsui and Sha Tau Kok, what you see / hear on this page are the results of the field works done in these areas.
WEBSITE:
http://cargocollective.com/samsonyoung/
Artist Statement"
Hong Kong and Mainland China are physically separated by the Shenzhen River and a great wall of wired fencing. South to the border are restricted zones known as the Frontier Closed Area. Entry into the Frontier Closed Area without an official permit is strictly forbidden. In October 2005, the then chief executive Donald Tsang announced a proposal to drastically reduce the Frontier Closed Area. In February 2012, 740 hectares of land were initially opened up for public access. The proposal will be implemented in phases, and other areas will soon follow suit. Liquid Borders is a sound project that seeks to sonically archive the Hong Kong-China border. Since July 2012, I had been systemically collecting the sound of places and/or objects that separate the two regions. I recorded the vibration of the wired fencing with contact microphones, and the water sounds of the Shenzhen River with hydrophones. I rearranged these recordings into sound compositions. I then re-transcribed these sound collages into graphical notations. I started with the newly opened up Tsim Bei Tsui and Sha Tau Kok, what you see / hear on this page are the results of the field works done in these areas.
WEBSITE:
http://cargocollective.com/samsonyoung/
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ADRIAN ESPARZA
WAKE AND WONDER 2013
Adrian Esparza is a Texas based artist of Mexican descent.
He uses Sarape, a traditional Mexican blanket, to symbolize the Mexican cultural identity. By deconstructing and transforming this blanket into new geometric shapes, he uses this material to signify migration and transformation.