Summer 2010
Ursula Biemann
By Ursula Biemann Summer 2010 | ArteZine For the longest time we have thought of extra-territoriality as a designated space or status that lies outside territorial boundaries and either benefits or suffers from the suspension of jurisdiction overruling the national territory. Embassies, refugee camps, free trade zones are a few cases in point. In recent years,…
By Ursula Biemann Summer 2010 | ArteZine In an observation about the city of London – as part of the ‘Urban Age’ initiative, the sociologist, writer and academic Richard Sennett noted that: We need to better understand how to legitimise certain forms of conflict. We can only assume that we have the ability to resolve conflict,…
Spring 2010
Beshara Doumani, Ursula Biemann
By Beshara Doumani and Ursula Biemann Spring 2010 | ArteZine Ursula Biemann: We have had an ongoing discussion about the possibility of designing and experiencing post-territorial forms of a Palestinian cultural and political life. Half of the Palestinian population, about five million people, live outside of their home territory as refugees, mostly in adjacent states, but also scattered across…
Ursula Biemann, Oroub El-Abed
By Oroub el Abed and Ursula Biemann Spring 2010 | ArteZine In 1997, the U.S. established several Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) in Jordan and Egypt, where labor-intensive production (such as textiles and garments), were manufactured for tax-free export to the U.S., under the condition that the financial operation involved an 8% Israeli input. This neo-liberal initiative, aimed at…
