6+ is pleased to announce our participation in the upcoming exhibition at Exit Art in New York, with a new installment of “Turning our Tongues, Audio Journals from Dheisheh Refugee Camp”.
Exit Art presents “Sultana’s Dream” More on that here
More on Turning Our Tongues here
SAWCC’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition
August 4- September 1
Opening Saturday August 4, 7-10 pm
Public Programs Thursdays August 9, 16, 23 at 7pm
SAWCC (South Asian Women’s Creative Collective) is an organization dedicated to the advancement, visibility and development of emerging and established South Asian women artists. SAWCC provides a forum for South Asian women artists to profile their creative and intellectual work, and network with other South Asian women artists, educators, community workers and professionals.
ARTISTS
Samira Abbassy, Jaishri Abichandani, Fariba Alam, Mouna Andraos, Siona Benjamin, Anjali Bhargava, Anna Bhushan, Mareena Daredia, Sharmila Desai, Chitra Ganesh, Asha Ganpat, Mariam Ghani, Rajkamal Kahlon, Emily Jacir, Mona Kamal, Jesal Kapadia, Sarita Khurana, Swati Khurana, Yamini Nayar, Vicky Moufawad-Paul, Carol Pereira, Sreshta Premnath, Fatima Al Qadiri, Mona Al Qadiri, Sadia Rehman, Prerana Reddy, Ela Shah, Asma Ahmed Shikoh, Shahzia Sikander, Sonali Sridhar, Anahita Vossoughi, 6 + women’s art collective, and SAFED STUDIO.
“Turning our Tongues: Audio Journals from Dheisheh Refugee Camp”
Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the Occupied Territories of Palestine was established in 1948 as a temporary living solution for 3,000 refugees, forcefully displaced from 46 villages west of Jerusalem and Hebron. Today, 11,000 people live in an area less than ½ square kilometer, straining an always incomplete infrastructure.
Dheisheh has been the site of great suffering and resistance. It has played a key role in the intifada, and suffered extensive military reprisals – sieges, arrests, killings, destruction, humiliation. Yet it remains one of the most active and inspiring communities in the struggle for refugee Rights of Return.
In the spring of 2006, the 6+ collective began a series of workshops in the camp, involving 18 young women ages 16-18. Developed in close cooperation with Naji and Suhair Owdah, and the Al Feneiq Center at Dheisheh, the project bears witness to the strength and creative vision of these young women. Each workshop participant made her own hand-made journal and wrote a story from personal experience. Each story became re-interpreted through successive transformations. The young artists then worked together to choreograph digital recordings combining voice and ambient sound – in under 60 seconds, they “performed” their stories for direct (unedited) recording, exploring the relationship between environment, narrative and body.
For more information on Dheisheh, please see
IBDAA Center at Dheisheh Refugee Camp
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