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Building Democracy / Mapping the real, 2009
A traveling film project
In collaboration with the artists Lise Skou, Lasse Lau and Max Schneider.
The project’s focus is on migration and marginalization of cultural producers coming from a non-Western sphere. It is
realized by traveling with a caravan through European suburbs (one trip took place in 2009, new ones are to come).
We are interested in exploring the sphere between migration and housing policies where globalization, UN refugee
systems, ‘new ethnicities,’ ghettos and under-representation overlap. The projects take place as a relay race. We ask
the first cultural producer to produce a short film, and to send us through his or her personal network to the next place
somwhere in Europe. Here the lead will find us the next director. Through the director’s network the caravan’s travel
route will be mapped. All that is known to us is the starting point in the suburb of Vollsmose in Denmark. We will enter
the caravan without knowing the end destination, and for a short period of time we will take on the role as migrants
in an attempt to relocate resources, and let the gaze shift position. During the travel, the caravan will function as our
home, vehicle for transportation, workingspace, film studio and platform for meetings and exchanges for people involved
and others passing by. Beside from producing short films we make documentaries that portray the trips and the
people we encounter. We meet biyearly to reevaluate and outline the future. New members in addition to the directors
and founders can be elected by vote at the biyearly meeting. Any disagreement at these meetings is solved by simple
majority.
DK:
Khaled Barakeh (født 1976, Damaskus, Syrien). Han er uddannet fra henholdsvis Det Fynske Kunstakademi
(MFA), Odense 2010 og Fakultetet for Billedkunst (BFA), Damaskus Universitet 2003, hvor han yderligere
studerede High Diploma i billedkunst i 2005/2006.
Barakeh har blandt andet haft soloudstillinger følgende steder; FAA Project Room, Det Fynske Kunstakademi,
Odense 2010, French Cultural Centre, Amman 2006, French Cultural Centre, Damaskus 2005. Yderligere er
han inviteret til at lave en soloudstilling på Kunsthallen Brandts i efteråret 2010.
Barakeh har yderligere deltaget i flere gruppeudstillinger, blandt dem;
Untitled (no. 5) LARM, København 2010, Sammenstød i Janus Bygningen, Tistrup 2009, Zara Gallery, Amman
2007; National Museum, Aleppo 2006, Khaled Shoman – institut for samtidskunst, Amman 2005. I 2009 tilsluttede
han sig kunstner kollektivet Building Democracy. Dette fortløbende projekt har indtil nu udstillet på Overgaden
– Institut for Samtidskunst, København 2009, Galleri Rum 46, Århus 2009. I efteråret 2010 vil Building
Democracy udstille i Parking Lot, Teheran.
UK:
Khaled Barakeh (born 1976 Damascus, Syria). He graduated from the Funen Art Academy (MFA) Odense 2010;
and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts (BFA) Damascus University 2003; also he studied High Studies Diploma
in Art for one year at the same Faculty in Damascus 2005/2006.
He has had solo exhibition at the FAA Project Room, Det Fynske Kunstakademi, Odense 2010; French Cultural Center,
Amman 2006; French Cultural Center, Damascus 2005. Fall 2010 he will be exhibited a solo show at Kunsthallen
Brandts.
He has participated in group exhibitions such as:
Untitled (no: 5) på LARM, Copenhagen 2010; Sammenstød på Janus Bygningen, Tistrup 2009; Zara Gallery, Amman
2007; National Museum, Aleppo 2006; Khaled Shoman – Institution for contemporary art, Amman 2005.
In 2009 he joined an artists collective Building Democracy. This project has been exhibited at Overgaden – Institute
for contemporary art, Copenhagen 2009; and in Gallery Rum 46, Aarhus 2009. Fall 2010 it will be exhibited at Parking
Gallery in Teheran.