Sometimes Doing Something Poetic Can Become Political and Sometimes Doing Something Political Can Become Poetic Tapa dura - 2007

Very good condition hardcover, pencil underlinings on one page else clean and unmarked. Includes DVD and fold-out map; unpaginated. Texts in English, Arabic and Hebrew languages. Includes a film in collaboration with Julien Devaux as well as a map of Alys's journey, photocollages, paintings, drawings, and a group of sculptures. Exhibited in part at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2005. The film, which revisits the artist's 1995 work entitled The Leak, shows Alys carrying a dripping can of green paint along the armistice boundary that Moshe Dayan marked on a map with green pencil after Israel's War of Independence ended in 1948. The piece questions the physicality and cultural relevance of the Green Line, its function as a social and spiritual division in the city of Jerusalem, and its role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. With this work, Alys asks: Can an artistic intervention truly bring about an unforeseen way of thinking, or it is more a matter of creating a sensation of… Leer más

David Zwirner, New York, 2007. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 100 pages. Illustrated boards. Text is in English, Hebrew and Arabic. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from David Zwirner Gallery, New York NY February 15-March 17, 2007. Interviews by the artist with Ruben Aberjil, Albert Agazarian, Yael Dayan, Jean Fisher, Rima Hamami, Amira Hass, Nazmi Jobeh, Yael Lerer, Eyal Sivan, Michael Warschawski, and Eyal Weizman. Included are a fold-out map and DVD of the film with options to listen to the recorded interviews..

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.