On November 4, 1995, Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a man opposed to the peace treaty with Palestine. The aftermath was defined by incitement by the opposition: withdrawal from “Jewish” land amounted to heresy. This moment brought about a fracture. “Jamal, who is working on his doctorate in mathematics, is struck by […]
in 1995, I was invited to exhibit at the obala Art Center, Sarajevo. its director, who came to visit me in my Base studio to select the material for the exhibition, had to pass through the Sarajevo tunnel under the airport and over Mount Igman. in November, I traveled to the besieged city of Sarajevo […]
“A Fiesta for Life against Death, 11th September 2001,” photographed by me (sic) sometime in 2003 in Hackney, East London.
I was doing the Planetary Dance at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on election night, and hundreds of us were dancing our hearts out, hoping Obama would be elected. In the midst of our dance a news bulletin appeared on the screen – Obama was elected. Our first black president […]
Exact dates are not very significant. It is about a different duration – periods of time and space where surveillance is absent. I observe areas for long periods to determine in which manner to respond and how quickly – minutes or seconds. I made this image (sic) during the Chinese New Year holiday, under the […]
One of my main influences, filmmaker, artist, and taroist Alejandro Jodorowsky, says about death, “If you run too fast, you’ll find her. If you go too slow, she’ll find you. But it you walk next to her, she’ll offer good company.” I obtained the necklace I am wearing in the photo [sic] at Akumal, a […]
Mining development started on this site [Khan Copper mines, Namibia] 1908; photographed (sic) the remains April 17, 2015, at 16:33.
On April Fools Day last year (sic), I learned from various news pages and extremely angry Facebook posts that at least seventy-six women, mostly Syrians, were detained near “Chez Maurice” in Jounieh – a town of “prostitution” north of Beirut, near the sea – as prisoners of sexual abuses. They were tortured and not allowed […]
All the things I know but cannot stop thinking about. Athens, July 31, 2016, 10:22am Warm greetings to RB.
On questionable grounds, Sámi reindeer herders in Norway, like Jovsset Ánte Sara, have been labeled environmental criminals. A myth of overstocking reindeer and the ecological destruction they cause to the arctic tundra has become an official, political truth. The Norwegian government uses this myth to impose forced slaughter of the reindeer population, reducing the Sámi’s […]