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Imagine inviting two of your favorite artists and writers to lunch in a Parisian bistrot, where they take out their paints and pencils and fill the square shaped paper tablecloth with a spontaneous work of art, a permanent record of their harmonious or disputatious encounter. |
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I, artist, traveler, peace activist, have done just that with over a hundred participants, artists, writers, analysts, filmmakers, and other people of good will, from Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Americas. Some of these collaborations are the results of face to face meetings. Others I engineered, asking artists, who never actually met, to collaborate at a distance, with me as referee and curator, even artist or writer, encouraging, sometimes erasing, or framing their imagery and texts, in eight languages (with English translations provided for most.). |
This
project is designed to
celebrate the meeting, this adventure of the Self, and to create new
ones.
A paper tablecloth of a bistro, the symbol of French conviviality.
I
offer this public place of freedom, lightness, surprise, and creativity
to play to two or three people, from here or not, artist, poet,
filmmaker, … This fragile medium, that preserves memory of
the slightest gesture, provides a space of expression for my nomadic
soul, my fantasies of ubiquity, and my dreams of peace and creation.
Water is a widespread secret,
Known only to the pure –
Those who before the birth pangs
Are born in glances, or
As though by chance, taking shape
In a chronic dream.
The pure have not yet been born
On the dark shores.
They have not played in the sand or
Tired of standing perplexed
On the riverbank.
The river is a lost land.
It won’t return to the mountaintops
Without passing through the sea’s womb.
It won’t avail the river to seek diligently
In the cracks of the earth for
Its orphaned family.
Salman Masalha
ReclusioniSono chiuso fuori, al freddo
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The Secluded The Secluded
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IS IT YOUR CHILD ? YOU SHOULD GO TO A CLAIRVOYANT
In other homes there's laughter joy the children arrive happy
cheerful mommy mommy
darling how beautiful you are today come on come drink a capuccino and
here here here ...
(she's crying)
is it your child ? you should go to a clairvoyant
you may be angry at me but I don't see any resemblance with you and now
sit down
LET'S EAT THE CAULIFLOWER SOUP
Léon listen to me where is your hairbrush Hair is the beauty of the man if you don't take good care of them you'll be bald like your father may the earth be light over him (she's crying)
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the name is the place / the place is the name
Abdul Kader El Janabi..
This is my place, your place too
Our place is here
The only place that acknowledges my name
Nowhere else to go
J.N
Light is part of the feast
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Take your time friend
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Lift it slowly
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Paris – Berlin – New York
JN
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alli donde el desierto y el viento
moraban |
"Over there, where the desert and
the wind stayed, |
Larry Abramson, peintre (Israël), Jermi Adani, peintre (Israël), Tzipi Adar, plasticienne (Israël), Ayman Agbaria, poète (Israël-Palestine), Marjorie Agosin, poète (Chili-Etats-Unis), Housni Alkateeb-Shehada, poète (Israël-Palestine), Itaï Altschuler, peintre (Israël), Naïm Araydi, poète (Palestine-Israël), Moïse Alain Arbib, photographe (France), Michèle Atchadé, plasticienne (France), Assad Azi, peintre (Israël-Palestine), Eric Banse, écrivain (France ), Barton L. Benes, peintre (Etats-Unis), Margalit Berriet, peintre (Israël-France), Joëlle Bordet, psycho-sociologue (France), Sarah Boreo, poète (France), Sophie Boursat, plasticienne (France), Luc Brévart, plasticien (France), Gérard Charrière, peintre, artiste du livre (Suisse-Allemagne), Béatrice Coron, artiste du livre (France-Etats-Unis), Henri Cohen Solal, psychanalyste (Israël-France), Eliahu Dallal, peintre (Israël), Marc Delouze, poète (France), Mireille Désidéri, peintre (France), Georges Didi-Huberman, écrivain, philosophe (France), Gérard Duchêne, peintre, écrivain (France), Avraham Eilat, peintre (Israël), Abdel Kader El Janabi, poète (France-Irak), Nabile Farès, psychanalyste, écrivain (France), Riccardo Garbetta, écrivain (Italie), Reuven Givati, peintre (Israël), Hubert Haddad, poète, écrivain (France), Miron C. Izakson, poète (Israël), Manuel Kleidman, peintre (Israël-France), Rachid Koraïchi peintre, (Algérie-France), Abdelatif Laâbi, poète, écrivain (Maroc-France), André S. Labarthe, cinéaste, écrivain (France), Boris Lehman, cinéaste (Suisse-Belgique), Yossi Lemel, graphiste affichiste (Israël), Malie Létrange, photographe (France), Lorentino, plasticien (France), Anne Juliette Malotaux, Hava Margol, graphiste (Israël), Suleiman Mansour, peintre (Palestine), Salman Masalha, poète (Palestine-Israël), peintre, poète (France), Pierre Merejkowsy, cinéaste (France), Sandi Milburn, poète (Etats-Unis), Zwy Milshtein, peintre (France), Kasia Misztal, peintre (Pologne-Belgique), Moti Mizrahi, peintre (Israël), Zakaria Mohammad, poète (Palestine), Taha Muhamad Ali, poète (Israël-Palestine), Paul Nagy, écrivain (France-Hongrie), Nadine Nahous, cinéaste (Liban-Palestine-France), Joëlle Naïm, peintre, auteur (Tunisie-France), Aïda Nasrallah, poète (Israël-Palestine), Salman Natur, poète (Israël-Palestine), Patricia Nichols, peintre (France), Issa Nyaphaga peintre, (Cameroun-France-Etats-Unis), Dimitri Parimèros, peintre (Grèce-Belgique), Luis Rivera, écrivain (Guatemala-France), Joel F. Rosell, écrivain, illustrateur (Cuba-France), Anne Rothschild, graveur, poète (France), Rami Saari, poète (Israël-Grèce), Boualem Sansal, écrivain (Algérie), Serge Saury-Poch, peintre (France), Bat-sheva Shapira, éditeur (Israël), Milos Sobaïc, peintre, sculpteur (France-Serbie), Ronny Someck, poète (Israël), Lucienne Valensi, historienne (France), Yael, peintre (Israël-France), Nesroulah Yous, peintre (France-Algérie), Natan Zach, poète ((Israël), Szymon Zaleski, cinéaste (Pologne-Belgique), Billie Zur, poète (Israël), Ouzi Zur, peintre, écrivain (Israël), Adek Zylberberg, peintre (France) et ses élèves, les enfants palestiniens et israéliens du kibboutz Genossar, des étudiants du séminaire de médiation interculturelle d'Henri Cohen Solal, les jeunes palestiniens et israéliens du YMCA, les habitués du café littéraire Le Petit Ney.