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: Witte de With - Event - Territories discussion 1: The Politics of Verticality
Milutin Labudovic: Shaked, Jenin Region, 2002 (courtesy of Peace Now)
Type: discussion Date: November 22, 2003 at 14:00 hours Location: Witte de With, Rotterdam
A discussion with (co-)curators and participants of the exhibition Territories and the director of Witte de With on the use of planning and architecture as a tactical tool in the strategy of the State of Israel.
Eyal Weizman speaks about the nature of Israeli architecture in the West Bank and gives a critical view on how planning and architecture act as extensions of political and military strategies.
Participants to the discussion after the introduction: Ariella Azoulay, Catherine David, Zvi Efrat, Anselm Franke, Sharon Rotbard, Efrat Shvily, Paola Yacoub / Michel Lasserre and Eyal Weizman.
BOOK PRESENTATIONS: New Homes in Israel and the Occupied Territories by Efrat Shvily Beirut is a Magnificent City. Synoptic Pictures by Paola Yacoub / Michel Lasserre
Efrat Shvily's New Homes in Israel and the Occupied Territories is a series of black-and-white photographs of houses and neighbourhoods made between 1992 and 1998. The series arose in reaction to the large number of new settlements that were realized in Israel in the 1990s, as a means to occupy territory.
Yacoub/Lasserre's Beirut is a Magnificent City. Synoptic Pictures is produced by Fundacio Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, as part of the Contemporary Arab Represenations series of publications.
In this book Yacoub / Lasserre focus on "the expressiveness of territories" and their aesthetical and political implications in Lebanon today.
