Reaching Boundaries

 

iron wall between Gaza, Israel and Egypt

Military strategists ....
Experts on war .... Experts on belligerent expressions ....
Specialists in solutions ....
 

devastated houses on sandy ground

.... Human Studies, Social Studies, Anthropology, Psychology, History, Middle
Eastern Studies, Post Colonial Studies, Political Science ....
.... The tragedy of some is the career of others ....
 

devasteted houses on sandy ground, plastic bags with

Canon reassessed, rewritten ....

It cannot be about numbers, casualties, as they say ....

It is about the gesture ....
 

2 boys and man in front of house wall

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 - ....
 

blue canvas
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.

 

vast land, tree and housewall covered with saftey net

Geneva Conventions?
The International Criminal Court in The Hague?
Human Right Laws?
 

neighbourhood, semi devastated houses

How will we ever sleep well again? 

palmtree in the middle of rubble

Did we ever? 

white facades of residental houses, blue tinted balconies, with bullet holes

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.
 

palmtree in front of demolished houses

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
 

2 demolished houses

..... Dissociation ..... Alienation ....  

mattress on iron stand, protecting a young tree, in front of demolished house

What language do you speak?
Politics?
Logics?
History?
Economy?
Philosophy?

Surgical strikes interrupt the flow of thoughts 

a garden with plants on sandy ground surrounded by devastated houses




photography Rafah, Gaza, May 2005 and words Febr. 2009 by Rayelle Niemann 

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MORE CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE FOLLOWING

A
Akram Al Halabi ]
Atelier für Sonderaufgaben ]
B
Baggenstos/Rudolf ]
Basam Baroni and Jeremy Beaudry ]
Taysir Batniji ]
Hannes Brunner ]
Sarah Burger ]
C
Francisco Paco Carrascosa ]
D
Dector Dupuy ]
Erik Dettwiler ]
Ala’ Diab ]
Dlungwana & Gumbi ]
E
Egypt - 25th January ]
Sherif El-Azma ]
Shady El-Noshokaty ]
Mohamed Elshahed ]
Fawzy Emrany ]
F
forget 2 forget ]
Abrie Fourie ]
Anselmo Fox ]
G
Lamya Gargash ]
• Gaza - scattered mosaic •
A Gentil Carioca ]
Heiner Goebbels ]
Malak Gomaa ]
Nigist Goytom  ]
Adrien Guillet ]
H
Inas Halabi ]
Here I Stand ]
Sulafa Hijazi ]
I
Saba Innab ]
K
Ulrike Kuschel ]
L
Gabriela Löffel ]
Heinrich Lüber ]
Christin Lahr ]
Mariann Landolt ]
Jason Larkin ]
Björn Larsson ]
Yasser Abdel Latif ]
Emanuel Licha ]
Marcelo Lima ]
M
Made In Musina ]
Laura Martin ]
moddr_ ]
Naeem Mohaiemen ]
Asuncion Molinos Gordo ]
N
Mimi Cherono Ng’ok ]
Rayelle Niemann ]
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi ]
No Condition is Permanent ]
O
Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis ]
P
Pilgrimages ]
Silvia Popp ]
R
Youssef Rakha ]
S
Raeda Saadeh ]
Lina Selander ]
Lerato Shadi ]
Bahia Shehab ]
stadt.labor ]
Vassiliea Stylianidou ]
Syria _ files ]
T
Treibsand ]
U
urbaninform ]
V
Laurence Vale ]
Costa Vece ]
W
Lee Wen ]
Z
Margot Zanni ]
Michel Zayat ]

 

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