Reloading Images: Damascus: Tourists, Artists, Secret Agents'

“Damascus: Tourists, Artists, Secret Agents” concludes an artistic research project which took place in Damascus in October 2008 and through an online platform in the months before and after. The project “Reloading Images: Damascus / Work in Progress 2008” brought together cultural practitioners from Syria, Germany, Argentina, Spain, Italy, Turkey, USA, Egypt and Slovakia to discuss forms of artistic agency and work together on artistic projects taking the city of Damascus as a starting point.

'Damascus: Tourists, Artists, Secret Agents' is a pseudo-fictitious encounter of artists, dancers, secret agents, speculative writers, lovers, film-makers and photographers who come together to unravel the rumours, questions and traces of the mysterious disappearances that happen in the subconscious urban setting of one of the world’s oldest cities.

The narrative takes place in Damascus in 2008. Three people suddenly disappear: Zaat al-Abed, a presumed secret agent, Leena Kilkka, curator of the Damascus Biennial, an event that never happens, and a flâneur, whose diary is accidentally lost and found… It is a textual and visual narrative, that emerged out of the collaboration of more than thirty international artists and writers.

“Damascus: Tourists, Artists, Secret Agents” was edited by Kaya Behkalam, Paula Bugni, Beatrice Catanzaro, Roberto Cavallini, Azin Feizabadi, Carla Esperanza Tommasini, Sarah Rifky, Ashkan Sepahvand / Reloading Images

With contributions by Salina Abaza, Jan Ackenhausen, Woroud Ahdali, Isa Andreu, Kaya Behkalam, Omar Berakdar, Paula Bugni, Beatrice Catanzaro, Roberto Cavallini, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Azin Feizabadi, Soudade Kaadan, Sophia Krey-Kolios, Gabriel Martinez, Gabriella Micale, Sanna Miericke, Raqs Media Collective, Rania Mleihi, Ersan Ocak, Juergen Rendl, Sarah Rifky, Adel Samara, Manuela Scebba, Ashkan Sepahvand, Carla Esperanza Tommasini, Hanadi Traifeh, Kianoosh Vahabi and Wu Ming 4.

Graphic Design / Art Direction by Azin Feizabadi & Anja Lutz.

Project Management by Jan Ackenhausen & Kaya Behkalam.

Other Funders of this publication were:
The European Delegation to Syria, Damascus
www.delsyr.ec.europa.eu
the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Middle East Office, Beirut
www.boell-meo.org
the European Cultural Foundation (ECF)
www.eurocult.org

More information on www.reloadingimages.org

 

 

 

Details

Final Publication of the project Reloading Images: Damascus / Work in Progress 2008
Published by The Green Box in collaboration with the Prince Claus Fund Library. The book is available in colour, 244 pages, from the publisher and through selected distributors in Damascus.

Language: English
ISBN 978-3-941644-12-0.
You can also order the book online.