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Transferprojekt Damaskus
urban orient-ation
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Editors: Christian Reder and Simonetta Ferfoglia
Institute for MediaArt / Art and Knowledge Transfer
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Edition Transfer at Springer Wien New York 2003
402 pages, in German and Arabic language
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Catalogue-Presentation and Exhibition
Kunsthalle Wien Project Space Karlsplatz (March 8 -
16, 2003)
Beit Baroudi Damaskus (June 7 - 10., 2003).
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"Transferproject Damascus" is a reader combining
audiovisal research on urbanity, views of artists and
essayists,
Transcultural work on elements of social behaviour,
as experimental approach in dealing with complexity.
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"Transferproject Damascus" follows views
on the alien and the similar, on cities in a global
world - like an unusual guide, like a cartography. Published
in German and Arabic both cultures of language and writing
are present. Texts and visual dimensions lead into many
directions.
Discussions with the Syrian philosopher Sadik J. Al-Azm
and the Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf touch Middle East
realities. The city historian Nazih Kawakibi summarizes
the urban development of Damascus, the philosopher Burghart
Schmidt argues on the miscellaneous, the real one and
those in the mind. Ernst Strouhals story irritates through
overlapping realities. Dana Charkasi's subject is the
ecology of the region, Sead Zimeri's the situation of
women. Jamal Chehayed explains his way of thinking while
translating Proust into Arabic. Christian Reder takes,
additional to his interviews, the local sanctuary for
Cain and Abel, to question traditional images of urbanity
and migration.
On the visual level about twenty projects of young artists
represent there view, developed during a research program
of the University of Apllied Arts Vienna, which included
intensive stayings in Damascus and close cooperations
with local partners. Exhibitions in Vienna (Kunsthalle
Wien / project space Karlsplatz, March 2003) and in
Damascus (Beit Baroudi, June 2003) complete such summaries
of the results.
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Christian Reder, Simonetta Ferfoglia / Edition Transfer
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