Idea
One Architecture
- SaLoN DAda
It might have been necessary to have a population well-trained in modern European art and literary movements such as Dadaism, Surrealism and Absurdism to engineer an alternate reality in Palestine in a way more successful than even Disney. We think that, in order to construct yet another reality, a Palestine in which democracy is more important than the ‘Jewish State’, art can play a similar role in changing perceptions.
Therefore, we propose a new exhibition in Ein Hod’s Janco Dada Museum. It features such artworks as:
THE CLOWN
where zoning as a political instrument is abolished and a new zoning developed
THE BRIDE
in which the project of the death and birth of a nation is made into a recycling machine
ETANT-DONEES
a play with temporality by redressing the refuge of a displaced population in Jerusalem Stone to show it has always been there
READY-MADE
which asks if an ordinary object (a century old Palestinian village) can elevate itself to an art project
We believe that the Dadaist project of Ein Hod should continue. We believe that, like in medicine, where you can often cure by having the symptoms of the illness provoke the immune system, prolonging or maybe mirroring the absurdity can eventually generate a new condition.
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PROFESSION: Architecture
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