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May 2019
FREE ZONE 2006
In 1993, the great Israeli director Amos Gitai visited Gabriele Basilico's Beirut exhibition in Paris. He was struck by it and involved him in a work on his father, an architect in Israel in the 1930s. A decade later, Gitai contacted Basilico again to work on Free Zone, the free trade area between Jordan and Israel. In Basilico's eyes, Israel is "a piece of unstable Europe navigating in a very different territory". But the real destination is the
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June 2020
NOTES ON ARCHIVE 5. UNNAMED SERIES
Notes on Archives is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a p
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November 2019
NOTES ON ARCHIVES 2 – CULTURE IS OUR BUSINESS
Notes on Archives is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a p
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June 2020
NOTES ON ARCHIVE 3 – PICTURE MINING
Notes on Archives is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a p
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November 2019
NOTES ON ARCHIVES 4 – DEAR JADWA
Notes on Archives is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a p
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February 2021
FREE LOVE PAID LOVE
Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in Delos, the tax haven of antiquity, 17th-century transactions of love involving pirates, slaves, and Mykonians; naturist communities reliving sexual freedom in the 1960-70s and 21st-century tourists quest in search of love, free or paid; this book gathers fragments of expressions of affection across Myk
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