New Natives at Kaunas in Art
July 9th, 2010 by nkatz22
New Natives will be screened at Kaunas in Art, in Kaunas, Lithuania from July 2 to July 10.
Glob (e) Scape
July 3rd, 2010 by nkatz22
Our video “Making Aliyah” and the artist book “Several Attempts at Drawing the Borders of Homelands and Promised Lands” Will be on exhibit, opening today at the Moscow Biennial for Young Art, in the exhibition «Glob (e) Scape» curated by Daria Pyrkina at the Design Center ARTPLAY on Yauza, Syromiatnicheskaya. st., 5/7
Several Attempts at Drawing the Borders of Homelands and Promised Lands
June 22nd, 2010 by nkatz22
The artist book that V and I sent to Moscow for the biennial.
Several Attempts at Drawing the Borders of Homelands and Promised Lands, 2010
A series of blind contour line drawings attempting to draw the borders of non-existant, unrecognized, wished for, or hoped for Homelands and Promised Lands.
olet lucernam
June 21st, 2010 by nkatz22
“So much for poetry, the Jezebel that kept me treacherous company all these years. Olet lucernam. Now it would be nice to tell a joke or two, but I can only think of one on the spot like this, just one. What’s more, it’s a Galician joke. Maybe you’ve heard it before. A man goes walking in the forest. Like me, for example, walking in a forest like the Parco di Traiano or the Terme di Traiano, but a hundred times bigger and more unspoiled. And the man goes walking, I go walking, through the forest and I run into five hundred thousand Galicians who’re walking and crying. And then I stop (a kindly giant, an interested giant for the last time) and I ask them why they’re crying. And one of the Galicians stops and says: because we’re all alone and we’re lost.”
-Roberto bolaño, The Savage Detectives, 421.
“Learning How to Milk a Cow from my Father” at Sherwood Festival
June 8th, 2010 by nkatz22
“Learning How to Milk a Cow from my Father” will be included in the Sherwood Festival as part of a selection of video art by the Fondazione March in Padova. The theme for the screening is “Territorial and Conceptual Dimensions”
imagined communities
June 2nd, 2010 by nkatz22
“Nationalists claim that some groups have an inherent or primordial right to live as a ‘nation’ in a state of their own because they share a common ancestry, ethnicity or destiny. Most modern scholars, however, view nationalism in a different light, seeing it as an attempt to create an ‘imagined community’ based on myths, language and culture – and exploiting the means of mass communication made possible by industrialization – to construct a national identity and consciousness.”
-Jonathan Cook, Disappearing Palestine