Forgetabillia - Temple Mount
Jerusalem | 2015
Performative act
Jerusalem | 2015
Performative act
The Forgetabilia project was initiated in 2015 for the "Under the Mountain" festival in Jerusalem, which took place around the temple-mount. During the festival I conducted an interactive site-specific performance, reacting to the memorabilia on sale in the different tourist-shops of the old-city. These shops sell a variety of items perpetuating familiar and common narratives through religious, military and national symbols, religious artefacts, and orientalist motifs (such as camels and idyllic sceneries).
I, in contrast, chose to create a series of items taken from the "open wounds" of that space – conflictual zones and controversial occurrences. For example – the separation wall, the Holyland project, Palestinian civilian uprisings (Intifadas), terror events, etc'.
My Forgetabilia was "sold" to by-passers in exchange for a memory – personal or collective – which they would have liked to forget.
I, in contrast, chose to create a series of items taken from the "open wounds" of that space – conflictual zones and controversial occurrences. For example – the separation wall, the Holyland project, Palestinian civilian uprisings (Intifadas), terror events, etc'.
My Forgetabilia was "sold" to by-passers in exchange for a memory – personal or collective – which they would have liked to forget.
