[spectre] DEEP EUROPE AND DISPLACED IDENTITIES

[KINGA ARAYA]

Tamar,
Great inspiring message. I hope to see some of your artwroks somewhere (in
Canada?).
Take care,
Kinga (the 'other' displaced 0/1...)


On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, tamar s wrote:

>  DEEP EUROPE AND DISPLACED IDENTITIES
>  A silent voice comes to life triggered by the deep Europe concepts to
> comment about its identity.  I speak from an immigrant country, my ancest=
ors
> came from Poland, I have friends whose origins are from all over the glob=
e.
> I leave in a mixed village by the sea where Moslems, Christians and Jews
> leave together. 15 minutes from Tel-Aviv, Israel. The Muasine =96 Muslim
> narrator, prays 5 times a day, this sound is overwhelming and punctuates =
the
> days.
>
> I cook Arab food with recipes I get from a woman I know at the local mark=
et,
> mixed with Eastern European recipes I have from home. The language of my
> trade is English, my syntax is weird, but my sense of poetry comes from t=
he
> bible, which is written in my mother tongue.
>
>  Life hazards, due to local terrorism attacks, is being reported daily on
> tv, Our sense of a safe geographic map had shrunken during the last year,
> but my real window is window's nt. The internet had always served as a
> strong displacement tool, through which my displaced identity found fello=
w
> voices that shared and enhanced my new media enthusiasm.
>
>  Internet communities like real life communities are always trying to def=
ine
> an `other`, a bad guy, in order to map their boundaries. I find the lost =
of
> boundaries thrilling. My web sites design, net.art projects and interacti=
ve
> installations I dream up, trying hard to realize in a place where the
> infrastructure for such a venture is scarce, are all strengthened by info
> bubbles the travel through my mailbox, for I'm an artist who found the
> virtual reflections a hell of a place to be.
>
>  Tamar Schori
>
>
>
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