Decolonizing Architecture: 1000 THOUGHTS IN 1 BETHLEHEM NIGHT - Aug 6th

1000 THOUGHTS IN 1 BETHLEHEM NIGHT

A series of informal meetings designed to open up a space for the exchange of thoughts and project developments.

6 August 2008, 08.00 pm location: Beit Sahour, Beit Hilal Petti

Habitance: Parasitic Colonies with Kegham Djeghalian

Kegham Djeghalian is a london based practicing visual artist, born and bred in Cairo. Ethnically, he originates from Armenia and Bethlehem. He is currently a graduate student at Goldsmiths College, University of London in the Visual Culture, Visual Art and Design Departments as well as a freelance lecturer in different insitutes. His art, research and practice revolves around discourcs of inhabitance and habitation, as well as the genealogy of identy and culture. He is th founder and general manager of the cultural insitute Habitance to be opened in London , Paris, Cairo and Bethlehem. The pesentation will be about the rizhomatic network of his practice and his dissertation “(un)inhabitance” that is about Lifta, the exPalestinian village in the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Decolonizing Architecture
Decolonizing Architecture is a collaboration between the haudenschildGarage and London-based architect and theorist Eyal Weizman and Bethlehem-based architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. Giorgio Agamben is among the consultants for this project. The project takes the settlement of Psagot, overlooking Ramallah, and redesigns it for a post-evacuation time and context. A scale model, architectural plans and a public event will be produced around plans for turning the fabric of this settlement/suburb into a Palestinian public institution. Decolonizing Architecture was originally conceptualized and produced with the support of the haudenschildGarage, Spare Parts.

In 2008, the project was selected for the 11th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale and will be exhibited in Brussels at the BOZAR Center for Fine Arts.

The haudenschildGarage is a cultural platform that stands somewhere between a salon and an alternative space, the goal of which is to be a home away from home for cultural experimentation, play and conversation. It routinely presents symposia, lectures and film screenings to the public.

Whether international projects, dialogs or commissions, the haudenschildGarage collaborates with institutions, alternative spaces and emerging artists. The hope is that through providing a permissive context for opinion and production, new ideas and visions will have an opportunity to take shape.

In 2006, the haudenschildGarage launched SPARE PARTS, a renewable 3-year cycle of projects commissioned and produced by Director Eloisa Haudenschild and Commissioning Editor Steve Fagin that encourages the juxtaposition of the crucial, the trivial, and the arcane. Projects include A Crime Has Many Stories in Argentina, Decolonizing Architecture in Palestine/Israel and The Last Book in the US.

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