Ronen.Dvarim — Deuteronomy – projects, pictures and words

I’m participating in a great project in Warsaw,  for those who cant make it i will post pictures and a description next week.

The opening is on Sunday, 30th August 2009, at 5.30 pm, Prozna Street 7/9. The exhibition is open from 31st August 2009 to 6th August 2009. Hours: 2 pm — 8 pm

Prozna Street is the only street in Warsaw which survived the destruction of the ghetto. Deserted, ruined, deprived of any inhabitants is still the evidence of war crimes and post-war indifference. The exhibition, which takes place in Prozna Street for the fifth time, aims to show how the modern language of art refers to Polish-Jewish history, common memory issue, intolerance and xenophobia, anti-Semitism as well as directly history and the condition of the place, where it is held.

The Prozna Project 2009 exhibition is probably the last one that will be organized in this place. There is a project of rebuilding of the building in Prozna Street pending to be realized. It is going to be a modernized version of the interior of the present building. Other conversions are likely to follow this one. In a few years it will be a completely different street.

The following artists were invited to participate in the Prozna Project: Hubert Czerepok, Inga Fonar Cocos, Oskar Dawicki, Daniela Deutelbaum, Wojciek Doroszuk, Ronen Eidelman, Zuzanna Janin, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Krystyna Piotrowska, Katarzyna Podgórska-Glonti, Jan Rusiński, Stanisław Wójcik, Ewa Stawecka, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, Waldemar Tatarczuk, Wojciech Wilczyk.

Curator: Krystyna Piotrowska

Photos of works from previous editions are available at the website: www.projektprozna.pl

Exhibition of Ronen Eidelman, Gergely László, Laurent Mareschal, Tami Notsani, Simcha Shirman and Gergely Somogyvári.
June 29 – August 1 2009
www.pipacs.hu/2b/

kontroll

The Maarav website was hacked resulting in a lot of damage. The site was hacked by French speaking hackers, probably connected to the Israeli Attack on Gaza. This situation brought us to build a temporary website so we can continue posting.

We also seized this opportunity to build an all new website with new features and design. So, I’m happy to announce that in March we will launch a new and improved, English and Hebrew, online art and culture magazine from Israel. The new site will be launched with our new issue titled, “Whose Voice Is This Anyway?” (see call)

We will also fix all the damage and install better security on the old site, which will function as an archive.

The temporary site is still only in Hebrew, but for those who don’t read Hebrew you can still browse through and look at the pictures.

The gate to the European Union (looking towards Slovakia)

Last week I was in Ukraine attending the No-Border camp. It was held in Transcarpathia the main region of transit and labor migration to the European Union. (You could read more about the camp and its motivations here)

The camp was really interesting and also a lot of fun. I have many stories and observations but until i get around to writing them you could see pictures of my travels in my flicker. There are almost no pictures of the camp itself because people asked not to be filmed but you can get a feeling of west Ukraine. In a few days I will ad more detailed pictures of the actions.
You can also read reports from some British activists who were at the camp here and here, And if you read German here.

You should really check out these pictures of the camp here (text in Russian).

My dear freind Charlotte Misselwitz who has worked as a journalist in Israel, Palestine and Russia is now back working in her home town of Berlin. She joined us in the Anti-Nazi demo on Mayday. 

Hello friends in Russia, Israel and Palestine,
We beat them! This is what I told my colleague from the politics desk, after having come back from the Anti-Neonazi demonstration in Erfurt this first of May. The thin, tall super model type turns her beautiful head striking her dark long hair out of her face. She gives me one of her usual radiant and irritated smiles. Of course, surrounded by the morning light, the amazing view over the city from the rooftop palace that we share as an office, words like Nazi, demonstration or even Erfurt (a town in Southern Germany) are ghosts for her. They make her shiver but at the same time they don’t belong to reality. So I spare her the rest, just say there were 600 Neonazis from all over Germany and about 2000 regional demonstrators. And her world is back in order.
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