[spectre] IN-BETWEENITY - Iraqi culture project, Rotterdam

[Witte de With]

www.inbetweenity.com


Witte de With invites Iraqi cultural producers to participate in the 
project Contemporary Arab Representations, In-betweenity, by 
submitting existing or ongoing work.

In-betweenity is a work program questioning the cultural practices of 
Iraqi authors working inside and outside Iraq's borders. 
In-betweenity indicates a hypothetical terrain in which Iraqi 
intellectuals have had to practice the culture of necessity, the act 
of salvation, over the past three decades, an era marked by political 
upheavals, dictatorship, wars, embargo and exile. It is a culture 
that does not belong to any aesthetic, ethnic or political category; 
but to its moment. This terrain is imposed on the Iraqi intellectual 
because of his realization of the degree of complexity and 
criticality, as well as commitment to his historical role. This 
terrain should not be understood as producing only a culture of 
necessity, but also as a cultural product that reflects the 
intellectual, mental and aesthetic level of Iraqi cultural 
practitioners.

A bilingual Arabic-English website,<http://www.inbetweenity.com/> 
www.inbetweenity.com, and a related application form provide a 
structure for individuals to present their work. The application is 
designed to offer access to cultural producers inside and outside 
Iraq to participate by submitting either existing or ongoing work. 
This allows space for a diversity of authors to bridge between 
heterogeneous Iraqi cultural communities.
Contemporary Arab Representations invites Mohamed as curator of this project.

Contemporary Arab Representations is a long-term project which 
includes seminars, publications, performances and presentations of 
works by various authors - visual artists, architects, writers, poets 
and intellectuals, but also actors in social and political life - 
with the aim of encouraging production, circulation and exchange 
between the different centers of the Arab world and the rest of the 
world.
The project thus aims to tackle heterogeneous situations and contexts 
which may sometimes be antagonistic or conflictive, in order to 
acquire more specific knowledge about what is currently going on in 
different regions of the Arab world, to look at the complex 
dimensions of aesthetics in relation to social and political 
situations, and to encourage people to think more openly about the 
role played today by cultural practices in our own locations, under 
our own circumstances.

At the beginning of 2005 Contemporary Arab Representation, 
In-betweenity, will be presented at Witte de With.

For further information about the project please contact Witte de 
With or visit <http://www.inbetweenity.com/>www.inbetweenity.com.

Opening hours Witte de With: Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Price: ¤ 2.30 (admission for Witte de With and TENT.)
Discount: ¤ 1.10. MJK/ Rotterdampas; <16: free

WITTE DE WITH, CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, WITTE DE WITHSTRAAT 50, 
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