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CONFERENCE
Date:
10 - 12 March, 2006
Location:
Qalandiya / Jerusalem / Ramallah
www.liminalspaces.org
www.grenzraeume.org
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Idea
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Liminal Spaces is an eight-month international art project which aims at
refuting the realities of occupation and its dynamics by examining notions
of urban spaces, borders, mental and physical segregation, cultural
territories and the possibilities of art within political frameworks. In light
of the ever-growing hardship endured by Palestinians under Israeli
occupation; persistent loss of land, deprivation of freedom of mobility, as
well as basic political and civil rights, this international cooperative
project takes as its starting point the spatial borders that characterize
Israel’s colonial project. Frontier cities like Jerusalem have become
laboratories of an urbanism of radical ethnic segregation. Since the Second
Intifada and Israel's unilateral construction of the Wall, declared illegal
by the International Court of Justice at the Hague, this situation has
intensified to an alarming degree and the urban fabric has disintegrated
into a spatial and mental archipelago. This radical separation affects
Palestinians in diverse ways; they suffer the loss of basic freedoms,
restrictions on travel and severe surveillance that endanger the future of
their society.
Context
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The Israeli project of territorial and demographic control has been
deeply inscribed into the physical and social fabric of the intersecting
regions of Israel and Palestine. Urban frontier zones like Jerusalem
have become laboratories of an urbanism of colonial expansion and
ethnic segregation that are unique in their extremes: a spatial matrix
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