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Baghdad: City of Walls | video by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on guardian.co.uk | some wall art on bbc.co.uk | short video posted by multi-national (occupying) forces in Iraq | they have been sponsoring works on the walls… discussion by Mark Vallen | Mark Vallen’s excellent strand on artists and the Iraq war | piece in Foreign Policy in Focus on proliferation and role of walls in US policy in Baghdad | theatre: Berlin/Palestine-Israel… memory
work by Athena Tacha 2008 | 1 drop = 1 dead | link
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:
Documentary on work of Hana Mal Allah and Rashid Selim.
An exhibition of work by Peter Kennard including collaborations with Cat Picton-Phillipps runs from 30 January to 30 March 2008 at the Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park, London | Article by Tom Lubbock in the Independent, also about the Rodchenko thing at the Hayward
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
Interviewed by Iwona Blazwick at Tate Modern, London on 29 September 2007. mp3 here. | Since 2005 Martha Rosler has made her personal library available at a series of galleries: article here :: it’s at the Stills gallery in Edinburgh (until November 2008); was previously in Liverpool
22 June – 12 July 2007 at the Leonard St gallery, London. Link. Peter Kennard interviewed about the exhibition.
This work, by Michael Sandle, won the Royal Academy’s Hugh Casson prize for drawing in 2007.
Exhibition that ran 23 May to 27 June 2007 at the ICA. 26 artists were invited to submit proposals | Jeremy Deller did a great sketch on the wall of two outline maps (UK and Iraq) with key place names (e.g. Aberdeen; Kirkuk) transposed… but I didn’t get a picture and I can’t find one online. Let me know if you have one…
Ran 2nd October to 2nd November 2006 on the South Bank, London. Link.
Exhibition of works by Peter Kennard and Cat Picton-Phillipps, PhotoFusion gallery, London, 27 January-18 March 2006 | link
