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Manifestation in the Hague, 23 February 2008 by Rashad Selim. Poster by Rashad Selim for Green Zone/Red Zone © Gemak 2008 | Explanatory text from Robert Kluijver, Curator of Gemak:
Next Tuesday February 26 at 1 pm Rashad Selim, Iraqi artist in
residence at Gemak, will deliver a petition to the Dutch
Parliament. This is the result of a public art project he has been
engaged in since October 2007.
On January the 26th, the action day of the World Social Forum,
Rashad stood alone before the International Court of Justice in The
Hague with his traffic sign and a megaphone, requesting
international law for Iraq. See the attached photographs. His
weapon is a traffic sign based on the ancient ‘Saba Ayoun’ (seven
eyes) symbol that is used in Iraq for the protection of the
innocent. His petition has been incorporated in a poster-sized
cartographic representation of what would happen to The Hague were
it submitted to the same pressures as Baghdad.
The Commission for Foreign Affairs of the Dutch Parliament has
accepted his request to submit a petition next Tuesday, at 13.30;
we will therefore gather on the square in front of the Parliament
at 13.00.
Come and join us. | Previous intervention at the International Court of Justice 26 January 2008:
This exhibition, which looked at the fragmentation of Baghdad and other cities under the pretext of security, ran at Gemak in den Haag from 20 October 2007 until 31 January 2008 | Some info in English here | Interview with Robert Kluijver, Gemak curator, about the gallery and the exhibition | some photos of Bram Esser’s work for the exhibition
