El Ashaa’—The Banquet
Pascal Hachem
The «Banquet» took place at Saha Hashmia, in Downtown, next to the Roman Theatre; a tourist place with poor neighbourhood in close proximity.
With this intervention he questioned the act of being generous as well as the act of receiving donations.
The table was set for a perfect classical banquet, reminiscent of the «Last Super» and the Iftar-tables during Ramadan (first meal at sunset after fasting during the day. Charity organizations and wealthy people offer food to the needy), welcoming people who just happened to be around, but this time, no food or drinks were served. Instead, the artist was going around the table, writing «laws» on people’s plates – that was, what he offered. These «laws» were directly linked with a certain mind frame, with daily routine, all context sensitive: e.g.
— do not listen to the Lebanese people, listen to Fairuz
— do not put the portrait of Che Guevara everywhere
— watching football for 90 minutes is very good
— stillness / laziness is very good
— do not show your feelings, keep them to yourself
— live from laws
— appreciate what you are being served
— do not always say NO
At the end Pascal Hachem was distributing local bread, on which he stamped the words:
«Aish il Qanun»– the bread of the law
playing with the word Aish – which means in Arabic «bread» and also «life», as for: «living the law»
All photographies by «No Condition is Permanent», Amman 2007
→ No Condition is Permanent
→ The Bench
→ Call for Job
→ Counting Years
→ The Dice
→ DIWAN
[ → more ]
[ 2nd May ]
[ Al Kheimah—The Tent ]
[ Al Maq’ad—The Bench ]
[ Altelefon Alkharban—Téléphone Cassé ]
• El Ashaa’—The Banquet •
[ Ez-zahr—The Dice ]
[ Flatlands Av. ]
[ Here I Stand ]
[ In Memory of Protest ]
[ In the Shadow of the Pyramids ]
[ Mels - A Pause For Thought ]
[ Schaffhauser Rheinufer ]
[ Shwayet mayy—Some Water ]
[ urbaninform ]
FEATURED THEME ON CITY SHARING
by LERATO SHADI
-
My performances deal with absence and presence. They trace the absence of the presence, along the question where is here …
by MALAK GOMAA
-
When I started my journey to develop this work, Egypt was going through its historical and memorable Revolutionary path …
by BAHIA SHEHAB
-
The streets of Cairo have become an open gallery to many artists wishing to express their views, dreams and hopes for a …
by SULAFA HIJAZI
-
Drawings are lying in front of me
Black on white
Their vibrations sting my attention
They look familia …
by SYRIA _ FILES
-
passionate documentary filmmakers and autodidacts are the film collective Abou Naddar based in Damascus. in 2010 they released …
by SYRIA _ FILES
-
when demonstrations started in Mid March 2011 throughout Syria, a group of friends in Homs took their cameras to photograph …
by SYRIA _ FILES
-
the citizens of Kafranbel, a town with a population of approx. 15.000 and belonging to the Idlib Governerate, are well …
by AKRAM AL HALABI
-
This “visual text” consists of words written on images of people or places . .
in and from Syria .... Calling things …
by RAYELLE NIEMANN
-
A visual and contextual reflexion on images of women, in Egypt and beyond, in Arabic and English …
MORE CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE FOLLOWING
