Biography Ariella Azoulay (Tel Aviv, Israel, 1962)
Ariella Azoulay is Academic Director of the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv and teaches visual culture and critical theory at Bar-Ilan University. After graduating in Cinema and Literature from the University of Paris VIII in 1985, she studied Semiotics, Philosophy, and Museal Economy. Her publications include Death’s Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy (2001). She wrote and directed a trilogy of documentary films: A Sign from Heaven: a Film in 22 Letters Arranged in Alphabetical Order (1999), The Angel of History (2000), and Do not Open the Door (2001).
Acting against the current spatial conception that imagines political territory as an endless flat surface that is cut into coherent territorial units by linear borders, this project investigates the fragmentation of contemporary political space. The idea of ‘territory’ has been …Read more
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