Art & Culture in Palestine with Emily Jacir
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<p>For this week’s show, SWANA Region Radio brings you a different kind of news from Bethlehem than you might be accustomed to in this season of commercialized Christian celebration. David Lloyd and Rana Sharif have a special one-hour conversation with Palestinian artist and filmmaker Emily Jacir. We discuss her own work, the cultural vitality of Palestine, and also the project that she has been working on to restore the family home in Bethlehem into a cultural center, Dar Jacir. </p> <p>Emily Jacir lives and works between Bethlehem, Palestine and Rome, Italy. Jacir is an artist and filmmaker who is primarily concerned with transformation, questions of translation, resistance and silenced historical narratives. Her work investigates personal and collective movement through public space and its implications on the physical and social experience of trans-Mediterranean space and time. Her remarkably various work includes <em>Where We Come From</em> (2001-2003), in which the artist asked Palestinians living both abroad and within the occupied territories: “If I could do anything for you, anywhere in Palestine, what would it be?”; <em>Material for a film</em> (2005), based on the life of Wael Zuaiter, a Palestinian intellectual living in Rome who was assassinated in 1972 by Israeli agents; the censored installation <em>stazione</em> (2009), which would have displayed the Arabic names of the Venice vaporetto halts; and <em>TRANSLATIO</em>, an installation of the Stations, consisting of various found Palestinian objects, at the church of San Raffaele in Milano in 2016. Her recent retrospective <em>Europa</em>, shown at the Whitechapel Gallery in London (2015) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2016-17), which focused on Jacir's manifold practice in Europe, in particular Italy and the Mediterranean.</p> <p>Jacir has
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Art & Culture in Palestine with Emily Jacir
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