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“Let’s play to wonder”
We cannot turn a blind eye to rising extremism, the normalization of hatred and lies, the spread of genocide and the urgency of climate catastrophes. Guided by Camus, as we have been for nine years, in 2024, we committed ourselves to “Rethinking the World,” in pursuit of greater fraternity and the patient forging of a “modest utopia”—fulfilling what Camus called a “man’s work.”
DAGENS ETC
I väntan på att Gaza en dag ska bli fritt från krig och israelisk ockupation har konstnärskollektivet Hawaf Collective byggt det virtuella museet Sahab Museum där Gazas konst och kulturarv visas upp med hjälp av VR-teknik.
Dagens ETC har pratat med den palestinska konstnären Salman Al-Nawati som är en av museets grundare.
Mikaela Blomqvist: Gazas första konstmuseum är virtuellt
KulturPå årets Clandestino festival uppmärksammas kriget i Gaza med en nyutgiven bok och en virtuell konstutställning. Ingen ska kunna hävda att de inte visste vad som pågick, skriver Mikaela Blomqvist som har besökt festivalen.
with Salman Nawati, Rasha Salti, Elias Sanbar and Marion Slitine
For a country engaged in a relentless struggle for recognition and legitimacy, for a country populated by communities that have endured multiple internal displacements, the Palestinian territories (as defined by the Oslo Accords) lay claim to a surprisingly large number of museums.
Sahab Museum från Gaza flyttar till Clandestino Festival i Göteborg. I Filmstudion byggs det virtuella museet upp med konst från palestinska konstnärer som just nu finns ”i molnet” och i Paris.
Visionen är att en dag bygga ett fysisk konstmuseum i Gaza, men inte heller 2021 då konstnärskollektivet Hawaf Collective började jobba med det virtuella museet, var det möjligt, berättar Salman Al-Nawati. Han är palestinsk konstnär från Gaza och en av grundarna. Efter ett konstnärsresidens i Paris bor han numera i svenska Tanumshede.
BARRA -OFF-SITE
Founded in 2021 between Paris and Gaza, the HAWAF collective aims to (re)build a besieged community through an imaginary museum – the Sahab Museum (English translation The Cloud Museum). In this interactive virtual reality headset experience, users find themselves in a partially destroyed lunar terrain, facing a tigress who will guide them throughout the experience. Following the tigress, the user is invited to collect and contemplate artworks lost and/or damaged, then return them to the Sahab Museum, where they belong.
Art Explora – Cité internationale des arts Residency
Salman Nawati talks about the Imaginary Museum of Gaza, a collective project of the Hawaf group. In collaboration with artists Mohamed Bourouissa, Mohamed Abusal and architect Sondos El Nakhala, Salman Nawati is working on a virtual museum that will house ancient objects, relics and works of art, some of which are completely imagined, presented as digital copies. The museum will be presented at the Palais de Tokyo in 2023.
Palestinska konstnärerna Majdal Nateel och Salman Nawati lämnade för två år sedan Gaza i Palestina och flydde till Sverige. Den här kvällen möter vi dem i ett konstnärligt samarbete där Salman framför musikaliska minnen på det arabiska stränginstrumentet Oud och sång. Samtidigt ser vi Majdal måla live till musiken. Ett nytt verk växer fram, vilket också är en ny början för hennes storskaliga oljemåleri. Ett stort antal av hennes målningar har förstörts i samband med bombningar av Gaza City.
Sahab Museum: Det imaginära som en plats för överlevnad
Svävandes uppe i luften fritt från väggar, ett museum som bryter sig ur isolering i form av ett moln från vilket det har fått sitt namn, ett bevis på Gazas rika historia. Sahab Museum är ett virtuellt rum och en plattform skapad för att förmedla Gazas dåtid, nutid och framtid. En plats för spridning av konstnärligt minne, historia och arv för att övervinna marginalisering. Det är utformat som en virtuell verklighet för att möjliggöra för alla besökare, från Palestina och hela världen, att vandra igenom det var de än befinner sig.
HAWAF Collective
Artists and engineer
Wednesday, Jan. 15 → Sunday, Jan. 19 2025
In this issue of “Thaqafa,” Liana Saleh hosts Palestinian artist Salman Al-Nawati to learn about his artistic project, which explores concepts of domination and conflict in the closed space of Gaza…
The idea was to establish a reflective educational online program on contemporary art practice and theory with international, regional, and local practitioners and scholars. Guided by the principle of building connections, reading, and discussing in Arabic, the program assembled select participants living and working in Gaza over the course of six to eight months in a process-oriented and result-open digital knowledge platform and virtual free space. after the turn – art education beyond the canon tasked the participants with developing a new project or body of work based on the knowledge gained and reflections documented during the program. Work was presented in open-studio critique sessions and will be shown in a group exhibition in the Gaza Strip and abroad.
Gaza – When Beyond the Norm Becomes the Norm
PODCAST byAlia Rayyan, Alaa BarghouthiEpisode 10 of the TIMEZONES podcast series, co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut. This episode features a group of artists from the Gaza Strip, a territory suffering from the Israeli blockade established in 2007. This podcast episode reflects the digital reality of being together as a people and thus sheds light on the enormous challenges of working as a Palestinian artist today.
The exhibition project Eyes of Gaza عيون غزه opens the door to digital encounters between young people from Gaza and Gütersloh. In addition to the photography project on site in Gaza which is facilitated by the Qattan Child Center Gaza, it establishes a student exchange between the group of 10 in Gaza and students from a school in Gütersloh, Germany. The group of German students, which is led by two teachers, thus gets a first-hand impression of life in Gaza in pictures and in writing. The participants in Gaza will be supervised on the ground by the photographer Amjad Al Fayoumi, who will help the participants to visually document their everyday life.
The Ink drawings embodies the state of a quarantine imposed by the outbreak of the Coronavirus, and how It impact people , as a room stuck in o’clock to stop the wheel of the accelerating life of a human, and gives him the possibility to meditation on himself and his reality, and reveal to him the secrets of his subconscious, affiliations, and thoughts, which constitute his world and daily practices, and give him the opportunity to imagine his future as a part of the future of humanity, and the restoration of his relationship with nature, taking into account the individual cases of each person.
Why Gender Matters in Humanitarian Action in Gaza
The Gaza Strip remains in a protracted humanitarian crisis due to an Israeli blockade, successive rounds of conflict, and the ongoing internal Palestinian divide. A deteriorating humanitarian situation, high unemployment, food insecurity, electricity blackouts, and sanitation disasters have increased poverty and overwhelmed social and humanitarian services. Seventy-one percent of Gaza’s 2.1 million residents are thought to be in need.
In a small studio on a back lane in Gaza City, Salman Nawati hosts his first solo exhibition of paintings, accompanied by an art video installation.
The works centre around life in the Gaza port, encompassing at the same time feelings from life under siege and from the Israeli massacre of Gaza. The colours are vivid, as are the images and ideas.