This Place

The interviews for “THIS PLACE” were conducted in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Beit Neqofa, Kufur Yasif, and Bethlehem; some took place in the summer of 2007, the majority in February of 2008. The spatial installation serves both to present our personal approach to the issues and to illustrate the complexity we experienced. Listening only to this small group of Israelis and Palestinians (with the sole exception of the Palestinian-Austrian musician Marwan Abado, who lives in Vienna) – most of them are our friends – one can get a sense of how different the approaches to this land are, how diffe-rent the narratives. Every individual story makes perfect sense; once one hears the voices as an ensemble, things begin to get extraordinarily compli-cated. It takes about 13 hours to hear all interviews in their entirety. The interviews are available on DVD.

The art project ritesinstitute is an independent institution devoted to free edu-cation, research, and the production of associations, variant ideas, events, and actions. We inquire into the production of identities. We focus on the points of contact between what is different. We examine and manipulate ima-gery. We subvert and posit actions. We inspect, open, and research borders. Our central method in this context is the creation of international and a-national connections between artists, activists, and theorists.

INTERVIEW PARTNER
DENIS MASHEVICH, AMAL MURKUS, KAIS BAKRI, ESTHER EILLAM, MARWAN ABADO, ILANA SCHMUELI, MITRI RAH EB, JASMIN AVISSAR, NISSIM MOSSEK, MARIE JOSE KANGA, SALMAN MASALLAHA, RUSLANA LICHTZIER, YAKOV STIASSNY, SHLOMIT LIR, YUVAL BLANKOVSKY

IDEE, KONZEPT UNO INTERVIEWS/ IDEA, CONCEPT AND INTERVIEWS
Friedemann Derschmidt und Karin Schneider

VIDEO
Friedemann Derschmidt, Karin Schnelder, Richard Reisenberger

SOUND POST PRODUCTION
lngo Pusswald