Reaching Boundaries
Military strategists ....
Experts on war .... Experts on belligerent expressions ....
Specialists in solutions ....
.... Human Studies, Social Studies, Anthropology, Psychology, History, Middle
Eastern Studies, Post Colonial Studies, Political Science ....
.... The tragedy of some is the career of others ....
Canon reassessed, rewritten ....
It cannot be about numbers, casualties, as they say ....
It is about the gesture ....
new common era after the Second World War
.... - X - .... - X - .... - X - .... - Vietnam – Biafra - 1967 War – Korea -South Africa – Cambodia - X - Ethiopia – Somalia - 1973 Yom Kippur War – Chile - X - Iran-Iraq War - Nicaragua - Sabra and Shatilla – Uganda – Burundi – Tibet - X - Repression of the Kurds - 1st Intifada – Kashmir - Rwanda – X - Angola – Sri Lanka – Iraq – Kuwait – Congo - Chechniya - Tiennamin Square - X - War in Yugoslavia – 2nd Intifada- Darfur – Iraq - Afghanistan – X - Zimbabwe - Jenin – Lebanon – Burma – Gaza – X - ....
Guernica, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; tapestry copy on wall of UN in N.Y, at entrance to Security Council Room. On 5th February 2003 blue curtain put up to cover image when Powell + other US diplomats argued for war in Iraq at press conference.
Geneva Conventions?
The International Criminal Court in The Hague?
Human Right Laws?
How will we ever sleep well again?
Did we ever?
The next generation will make documentaries, while eyewitnesses are still alive.
Feature films.
Books will be written.
Theatre plays.
Maybe.
Photography exhibitions.
Video installations.
Articles.
Books.
Analyses
New areas of
expertises.
Investigations.
Hearings.
Testimonies.
Lectures.
Think-tanks.
For now, war diaries on the internet.
Good morning,
Hope this message finds you well
Do not really know what to say
How are the children?
How are you coping?
All the best for you and your families
..... Dissociation ..... Alienation ....
What language do you speak?
Politics?
Logics?
History?
Economy?
Philosophy?
Surgical strikes interrupt the flow of thoughts
photography Rafah, Gaza, May 2005 and words Febr. 2009 by Rayelle Niemann
OTHER PROJECTS ON CITYSHARING
→ Accessible Approach
→ In the Shadow of the Pyramids
→ Moving on – Moving back – Moving on
→ Fragmented Letters
→ Coincidental Destinies
→ Palestinian Dictionary
→ What remains and Things to come
[ A Rug - Post-orientalism ]
[ Cairo Divided ]
[ City of Events: a Close Look at Al Abdali Bus Terminal and Beyond ]
[ DADA Houses & Bucharest Strip ]
[ DIWAN ]
[ Die letzte Buche - The last beech ]
[ Leerstand ]
[ Model Citizens ]
[ Mukhattat mabdaee lilmustaqbal—Blueprint of the Future ]
[ Presence ]
[ Psychogeography ]
[ R I C O R S O ]
• Reaching Boundaries •
[ up the hill down the hill - Bird Cages - an installation ]
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