https://darjacir.com Dar Jacir Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:23:25 +0000 https://darjacir.com en https://darjacir.com/Home-Page Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:43:38 +0000 Dar Jacir https://darjacir.com/Home-Page <img width="3936" height="2624" width_o="3936" height_o="2624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56aa7d13ae224450025e6c0f6358668892b107643c174e7c5667d218b133b9c1/DSC00016.jpg" data-mid="38958926" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/56aa7d13ae224450025e6c0f6358668892b107643c174e7c5667d218b133b9c1/DSC00016.jpg" /> Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research is a multi-faceted project devoted to educational, cultural, and agricultural exchanges in Bethlehem.Read&nbsp;More ︎ <img width="6000" height="6000" width_o="6000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62567413aa8af43f058eae68be9810910e42b95b382ba88397d3a3067a887eb0/unbuilding-listenings-radio-ap16.png" data-mid="140606104" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62567413aa8af43f058eae68be9810910e42b95b382ba88397d3a3067a887eb0/unbuilding-listenings-radio-ap16.png" /> Featured: (un)building listening radioshow Nicolás Jaar Nicolás Jaar introduces and plays extracts from some of the music made during his(un)building listening workshop at Dar Jacir in Bethlehem. Featuring sounds by workshop participants Malak Abdelwahab, Ayed Arafah, Emily Jacir, Essa Grayeb, Elias Wakeem and Amani Yaqob. Listen HERE! https://darjacir.com/About-Us Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:29:47 +0000 Dar Jacir https://darjacir.com/About-Us <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dda7711e52a49706bd37bde3c50237c58ad4af566a720eec89582810edb1e24d/IMG_4987.JPG" data-mid="40640558" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dda7711e52a49706bd37bde3c50237c58ad4af566a720eec89582810edb1e24d/IMG_4987.JPG" /> Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research is a grass-roots independent artist–run initiative founded in 2014 and is located in our 19th century family home in Bethlehem. Originally built in the late 1880's by al Mukhtar Yusuf Jacir, the site serves as a place in which the history and contemporary conditions of Bethlehem meet, enabling the exchange and production of new art works and visions towards the future. This multi-faceted project is devoted to educational, cultural, and agricultural activities. It is an experimental learning hub for the Bethlehem community and beyond – a place to ask questions, exchange ideas, to dream and to grapple with our contemporary situation. Knowledge production and research are the key pillars behind Dar Jacir. Workshops, seminars and master classes are conducted to facilitate the circulation of creative and intellectual endeavors across a range of disciplines and media in particular art and cinema. Our residency program offers an opportunity for visiting international and local artists and scholars to live and work in Dar Jacir. Our mission includes reactivating the links between Bethlehem and her community in Latin America with a special focus on exchange with the half million Bethlehemites living in Santiago, Chile. In addition, Dar Jacir houses a research center devoted to our Ottoman archives – a vast collection of rare visual and textual material from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the future, we plan on hosting scholars in Ottoman studies from around the world in addition to artists, academics, musicians and filmmakers to use these archives. We work in partnership with local and international organizations to disseminate and share programming to the widest possible audience. https://darjacir.com/The-House Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:30:54 +0000 Dar Jacir https://darjacir.com/The-House <img width="2100" height="1606" width_o="2100" height_o="1606" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd383e6fb71edc07aed1f090ee742074027f4338d8a7c65f042fe84a763caa19/taufik-basil.jpg" data-mid="39986160" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd383e6fb71edc07aed1f090ee742074027f4338d8a7c65f042fe84a763caa19/taufik-basil.jpg" /> Dar Jacir photographed by Taufik Basil, Bethlehem, circa 1890. Dar Jacir Archives. Dar Jacir was built in the late 1880’s by Yusuf Ibrahim Jacir, a mukhtar of Bethlehem. He was the town’s registrar and trustee because he kept a record of all newborns as well as the population of the city. He was also renowned for his skill and expertise in mother-of-pearl carving. The Jacir family is part of the Faraheeya clan, one of the original seven clans of Bethlehem. The house was built as a residential home for the family and a place to welcome friends and family who came to visit from abroad, mainly from Europe and South and Central America. It was one of the first houses located at the main entrance to Bethlehem from Jerusalem on the historic Jerusalem-Hebron road. In addition to the main house, a small stone structure was built to store food and other goods. The land around the house consists of a beautiful garden with olive trees, and typical traditional Palestinian stone terraces. The sanasil (the stone retaining walls) were recently restored as part of the renovation of Dar Jacir, as were the wrought iron gate and other ironwork. Since its early days the house has witnessed family weddings, festivities, celebrations, family births, sad moments of family passage, reunions, as well as national uprisings and historic events in Palestine. &nbsp; Yusuf was the father of Suleiman Jacir, known for his courage and generosity, and his great compassion for the needy. He was twice elected as Bethlehem mayor in 1899-1903 and 1903-1907. Suleiman held the rank of a “mir miran,” which was an Ottoman equivalent to a governor. Suleiman and his brothers became successful merchants internationally with offices in Bethlehem, Barranquilla, Beirut and Paris. The house remained the main Jacir residence during the construction next door of the Suleiman Jacir palace from 1910 to 1914. Every week Suleiman and his family served food to passersby and those in need. Everyone was welcome and people came from far and wide knowing they would be received. Until today the famous saying “يهووو الفتيت في دار جاسر (the food is at Dar Jacir)” still resonates with those from the area and beyond. The house witnessed the changing of control over Palestine from Ottoman rule to the British Mandate. When the family went bankrupt in 1929, the Suleiman Jacir Palace as well as the original Jacir home, were lost to the family. Everything was sold in an auction, which also included most of their furniture and belongings. In the aftermath, Suleiman and his wife and children were the only ones who remained in Bethlehem. The British authorities used the Suleiman Jacir Palace as a prison and British Army HQ, the original Dar Jacir home next door was purchased by the Qawwas family. After the 1948 Nakba, the Suleiman Jacir Palace became Al Ummah Secondary School, when the school was forced to move from Jerusalem’s Al Baka neighborhood to Bethlehem and Dar Jacir became the residence of the superintendent of Al Ummah as well as a home for the school’s boarders. During this period under Jordanian rule Mukhtar Yusuf Ibrahim Jacir’s grandson, Nasri Suleiman Jacir, became a teacher at this school. In the 1960s, the Jacir Palace became the Government Secondary School for boys, “Al Wataniya”, for the Bethlehem district, and the original Dar Jacir house next door was used as a laboratory for the school’s science department. Later the Palace became the Government School for Girls. By 1980, Nasri Suleiman Jacir, who was the only Jacir still living in Bethlehem, managed to finally buy back the original home. He was able to do so by paying for it in installments over the course of his lifetime, thanks to the generosity of the owner the late Hanna Qawwas who offered him the possibility to do this. From 1980 to 1996, the house was inhabited once again by its owners, Nasri and Marguerite Jacir, until they both passed away. In 2014, Yusuf Nasri Jacir, the grandson of Suleiman Jacir, bought his siblings’ shares of the house and became the sole owner. Yusuf decided to convert it to an art and research center to serve the Bethlehem area and the Palestinian communities in Palestine as well as overseas in the diaspora. It was his dream to be able to give back to his little town of Bethlehem, the place he was born and raised and will always love. https://darjacir.com/Team Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:37:33 +0000 Dar Jacir https://darjacir.com/Team Emily Jacir, Co-founder and Founding Director of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research Emily is an artist whose work—which spans a range of strategies including film, photography, sculpture, interventions, archiving, performance, video, writing, and sound—investigates histories of colonization, exchange, questions of translation, transformation, resistance, and movement. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including a Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); a Prince Claus Award from the Prince Claus Fund in The Hague (2007); the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum (2008); the Alpert Award (2011) from the Herb Alpert Foundation; and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (2015). Her recent solo exhibitions include Alexander and Bonin, New York (2018); IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin (2016–17); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015); Darat al Funun, Amman (2014–15); Beirut Art Center (2010); and the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2009). Her work has been regularly featured in major international group exhibitions, including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; dOCUMENTA (13) (2012); five consecutive Venice Biennales; Sharjah Biennial 10 (2011); 29th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2010); 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006); Sharjah Biennial 7 (2005); Whitney Biennial (2004); and 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003). Emily has been actively involved in education in Palestine since 2000 and is deeply invested in creating alternative spaces of knowledge production. She recently served as curator of the Young Artist of the Year Award 2018 at the A. M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah which she entitled “We Shall be Monsters”. She is one of the founders of the International Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah and was a full-time professor there from 2007 to 2017 and served on its academic board from 2006 to 2012. Jacir led the inaugural year (2011–12) of the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program in Beirut and created the curriculum and programming; she also served on its curricular committee from 2010 to 2011. Between 1999 and 2002, she curated several Arab and Palestinian film programs in New York City with Alwan for the Arts while also teaching several workshops at Birzeit University. She conceived of and co-curated the first Palestine International Video Festival in Ramallah in 2002. In 2007, she curated a selection of shorts, “Palestinian Revolution Cinema (1968–1982),” which went on tour internationally. Annemarie Jacir, Co-founder Annemarie has written, directed and produced over sixteen films. Two of her films have premiered as Official Selections in Cannes, one in Berlin and in Venice, Locarno, and Telluride. All three of her feature films were Palestine's official Oscar entries. With a commitment to teaching, training and hiring locally, Annemarie also curates and mentors, actively promoting independent cinema in the region. Founder of Philistine Films, she collaborates regularly with fellow filmmakers as an editor, screenwriter and producer. In 2003, she co-founded the Dreams of a Nation project and organized the largest traveling film festival in Palestine, which included the screening of archival Palestinian revolutionary films screening for the first time on Palestinian soil. She has taught at Columbia, Bethlehem, Birzeit University and in refugee camps in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan. In 2011, Chinese director Zhang Yimou selected her to be his first protégée as part of the Rolex Arts Initiative. In 2018, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and also served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. Yusuf Nasri Jacir, Co-founder Yusuf was born in Bethlehem and grew up in Dar Jacir . He attended primary school at the Freres School in Bethlehem, graduated from Terra Sancta Secondary High School and studied for one year at Bir Zeit College. He taught English to primary school students at the Freres College in Bethlehem for two years. He then worked in Hebron from 1962 until 1969 for UNRWA as the Area Welfare Officer for the Hebron and Bethlehem districts. In this position, he was in charge of social and welfare activities including supervision of case work; handicapped programs; distribution of food and medical supplies; directing and supervising boys’ youth activities centers and sewing centers for girls as well as after school activities at all those centers: Arroub, Fawwar, Deheisheh, Aida, and Azzeh camps. In this position he supervised case workers, youth leaders, sewing centers instructors and community workers. The Area Welfare Officer job gave Yusuf the opportunity to travel to the USA for the first time in 1966 as a representative of Jordan to the Chicago International Program for Youth Leaders and Social Workers. After the 1967 Naksa, he worked in Chicago for two years as a social worker and youth advisor for minority children at a community house on Chicago’ s west side and for six years in finance at the Quaker Oats Company. While working full time he put himself through College at the age of 33. He obtained a BA degree with Honors from Roosevelt University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Yusuf then worked internationally as a financial controller in Saudi Arabia for multiple companies owned by the Mawarid Group among many others. He is currently a consultant and financial advisor in Riyadh and is serving as Treasurer and Board Member of the Advanced Learning School in Riyadh. He was a member of the American Business Group Board in Riyadh from 1990 to 1998. Aline Khoury,&nbsp; Programs Director Aline Khoury is a cultural manager, producer and researcher living and working in Palestine. Aline has worked with several arts and cultural organizations across Palestine; managing spaces, producing exhibitions and public programs, as well developing institutional partnerships and strategies. She was involved in several local and international networks, including Qalandiya International, Shafaq- Jerusalem Arts Network, and Arts Collaboratory. She studied History of Art and Social-Anthropology (B.A.) in Jerusalem, and Aural &amp; Visual Cultures (M.A.) in Goldsmiths University, London. Nicolás Jaar, Sound Residency Program Since 2008, Nicolás Jaar has released music under various guises spanning shades of pop, ambient, noise, and club music. Since 2013, he has curated the Other People label, releasing the visual &amp; audio work of artists Africanus Okokon, Jena Myung, Maziyar Pahlevan and the music of Aho Ssan, Saint Abdullah, Dienne, and Lydia Lunch among others. He is a current member of performance ensemble ¡miércoles! Alongside choreographer Stéphanie Janaina, and part of the band Darkside. In 2019, Jaar assembled the Shock Forest Group, a collective which has been exploring the myriad layers of colonial, ecological and institutional violence that interlink on the site of a forest built to be bombed in Zandaam, NL. In 2018, Jaar transformed Dar Jacir’s food shack in Bethlehem, Palestine, into a sound studio where he has held sound workshops for children and artist residencies. In recent years, Nicolás has mainly focused on education, teaching sound-editing and listening workshops to emerging musicians and non-musicians alike in institutions such as the Museo de la Memoria in Santiago, Chile, AdBK in Munich, Germany, free.wav in Attappadi, India, Festival 4x4, Chiapas, Mexico, Dar Jacir and Alrowwad in Bethlehem, Palestine, among others.&nbsp; Nicolás is a Capricorn and once walked from Turin to Marseille. Lina Bani Odeh, Office Manager Lina Bani Odeh is an artist living and working in Palestine. After finishing her B.A. in Contemporary Visual Arts at the International Art Academy - Palestine, she continued her career working as a project coordinator and office manager with various cultural organizations and festivals in Palestine, including Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center (Ramallah) and Qalandiya International. She works in managing art spaces, organizing workshops, as well as producing projects and exhibitions with Palestinian and international artists. Ala’ Abed, Communications and Program Coordinator Ala’ Abed (b. 1998 Jerusalem), working as a communications and program coordinator in Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir since September of 2023. Her educational background includes a Bachelor's Degree from Birzeit University, majoring in English Language and Literature with a minor in Translation. Ala’ has cultivated a passion for photography, languages, writing memoirs, and cross-cultural communication, and has been working as a freelance translator in Arabic, English, and Turkish since 2021, she also works as a part-time remote executive assistant and event coordinator for Global Hope 365 in California. Ala’ has been working in the cultural sector in Palestine since obtaining her BA. She worked in A.M. Qattan Foundation as an intern and a full-time employee in Ramallah before relocating to Bethlehem. Reem Khatib, Program Coordinator and Sound Studio Manager Reem Khatib (1999), born in Jerusalem, holds a bachelor's degree in English literature coupled with a minor in translation and is currently completing her master's degree in sociology, both at Birzeit University. Besides their role at Dar Yusef Nasri Jacir as programme coordinator and sound studio manager since October 2023, Reem previously worked as an English teacher for adult beginners. Their language proficiency and translation expertise have been honed through various projects, including collaborating with organisations like Metras Global, Al Qaws, and Al Daleel, alongside interpretation abilities and transcription services. Passionate about exploring the intersections between literature, culture, and society, Reem actively participates in a variety of activities, including volunteering with youth centres such as IPYL, tour-guiding workshops at the Saraya Centre for Community Service (Jerusalem, the old city), and music workshops. They have been participating in many activities organised by Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research. They developed an interest in music at a young age and are familiar with multiple musical instruments. Reem participated in (Un)building Listenings workshop with Nicolas Jaar in May–July 2022. Using skills they acquired from the workshop and working with Ableton software, Reem co-founded the Palestine Beats workshop in collaboration with Valeri Orth, music teacher at Berkley University, facilitating songwriting, beat-making, and compassionate communication for 20 participants from cities around Palestine. Walid Al Wawi, Website Walid Al Wawi is a Jordanian Palestinian-native, working in painting, performance, video and installation. He received critical acclaim for his academic and purest approach to objects and physical documentation that dialogue with the political and cultural identity of the Palestinian body in diaspora, it’s implication on the post colonialist dream of pan Arabism and vice versa. In 2011 Al Wawi was awarded The Shiekha Manal Young Artist Award, followed by a scholarship from the Shiekh Salama Art Fellowship which earned him his masters degree in Fine Arts by Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London. Through out his practice Walid has had solo exhibitions at Art16 London, DUCTAC, and JamJar in Dubai; group shows at Jameel Art Center UAE, Darat Al Funun Jordan, Qattan Art Foundation Palestine, MMCA Seoul, XX Bienal Santa Cruz, FIAC France, Incubarte Spain, Abudhabi Art and Art Dubai UAE; and was a resident with The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in South Korea. Walid is the founder of “Samt for Art and Research” a virtual foundation that manifests primarily in a digital format through Samt.co. Its strict online presence is set to further its goal of democratising art accessibility and pushing the boundaries of the physically confined white space to a more contemporary and digital approach; opening the receptivity of art and discourse from Southwestern Asia and North Africa to an international audience from all regions with no geo-political restrictions on humans or art.Since it’s establishment through Samt, Walid mentored and curated the works of numerous aspiring artists from the MENA and collaborated with the Tate Exchange, Darat AlFunun and many other renowned galleries and foundations around the globe. Qais Assali, Volunteer Qais Assali (b. 1987 Nablus) is an artist, designer and educator. His works with photography, video, installation, lecture performance, graphic design, and in the archives seek to engage and subvert national geopolitical power dynamics. His interdisciplinary work stages questions between site and the body in relation to his own identity and locale in order to debunk metaphoric surrounding contested geographies. His work has been exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center; Rashid Diab Arts Centre, Khartoum; SculptureCenter, New York; Darat al Funun’s Lab, Amman; Jeune création, Paris; Festival Artes Vertentes de Tiradentes, Brazil; Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven; 6018North, Chicago, solo exhibitions at Akademirommet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Khan Al Wakala, Nablus; and Michigan State University Union Art Gallery. Assali has been teaching at a number of academic institutions in Palestine, recently was a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Critical Race Studies Program at Michigan State University 2018-19, and currently a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. After his graduation from the International Academy of Art Palestine, he pursued and holds an MFA in Studio Art from Bard College, New York and an MA in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hamza Badran, Volunteer Hamza Badran (b.1993)s a film maker and visual artist based in Basel, received a BA in contemporary visual art from the International Academy of Art-Palestine in 2018, and he is currently attending a master program in Fine Art at KunstInstitute HGK-FHNW in Basel Advisory Council Abdelfattah Abusrour, Adila Laïdi-Hanieh, Jorge Tacla, Sari Khoury, Hassan Muamar, George Al'ama, Diana Buttu, Zahi Khoury&nbsp; The following individuals have contributed to the founding of Dar Jacir as an organization and while they have moved on to other things they have remained an integral part of our family: Motasem Al-Ghnimat, Project Coordinator, 2018 – 2019 Samer Al-Barbari, Custodian/Groundskeeper/Chef, 2018 – 2019 Hassan Muamer, Site Engineer, 2018 - 2019 Susanna Gonzo, Intern, Spring 2019 Abeer Saadeh ,&nbsp; Admin and Finance Officer 2018 Ibrahim Burnat, Coordinator, 2018 Khaled Hourani Advisory Council 2017 - 2019 Dyala Husseini Advisory Council 2017 - 2019 https://darjacir.com/Press Sun, 14 Apr 2019 17:03:05 +0000 Dar Jacir https://darjacir.com/Press Dar Jacir has participated in symposiums, exhibitions, and festivals around the world, including: SOUTH WEST BANK – Landworks, Collective Action and Sound. Venice Biennale (2024) Art Spaces and Institutions as Sites of Futurity. &nbsp;March Meeting Tawashujat, Sharjah (2024) Drifting Archipelagos ARCO Madrid (2023) Tools for Solidarity with Resolve Collective. Shubbak Festival, London (2023) Our street in the middle of our house:Transversal Methodologies and Decolonial Practices at Dar Jacir. CiMAM Keynote at Annual Conference (Spain, 2022) MANIFESTIAMO. Villa Romana (Italy, 2022) National College of Art and Design (Dublin, 2022) Representation, Accountability and Solidarity in Institutions and the Artists they Serve. Rethinking Residencies (New York, 2021) Home Sweet Home. KORA-Contemporary Arts Center (Castrignano de Greci (Salento), 2021) Experimenter Curator’s Hub (Kolkata, 2021) Awards 2019 Visible Award Finalist 2018 KADIST CIRCLE AWARD Winner 2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice – one of the 5 finalists Selected Press 2024 Mirzoeff, Nicholas ‘Palestine Everywhere’, The Week In White Site, (6, May, 2024) Carolin, Clare, ‘South West Bank: Venice Biennale exhibition explores how Palestinians have become ‘foreigners everywhere’ The Conversation, (30 April, 2024) Morell, Naimai, ‘Palestine is everywhere at the Venice Biennale this year’, Middle East Monitor (26 April, 2024) Acre, Susant, ‘Collateral Visions: Six Best Off-Site Exhibitions in Venice’, Ocula Magazine (24 April, 2024) Ghosh, Ravi, ‘Venice Biennale photography review: Is truth enough?’, British Journal of Photography (24 April, 2024) Turner, Jonathan, ‘SOUTH WEST BANK. Landworks, Collective Action and Sound’, Universes in Universe, (20 April, 2024) Tancred, Jo Lawson, ‘A Powerful Collateral Show in Venice Highlights Palestinians’ Lived Experiences’, artnet (19 April, 2024) Higgins, Charlotte, ‘‘No death in Venice’: Israel-Gaza tensions infiltrate biennale’, The Guardian (19 April, 2024) Estiler, Keith, ‘Palestinian Voices Shine Despite Absence of National Pavilion at Venice Biennale’, HYPEBEAST (19 April, 2024) Bruno, Gilda, ‘What to See at the 60th Venice Biennale – Elephant Roundup’, Elephant (16 April, 2024) Tancred, Jo Lawson, ‘Here Are 6 Things You Need to Know Going Into Venice Biennale’, artnet (14 April, 2024) Greenberger, Alex, ‘10 Shows to See in Venice During the Biennale, From a Pierre Huyghe Blockbuster to Art About Palestine’, ARTnews (11 April, 2024) Hickley, Catherine, ‘War, refugees, destruction: how Venice Biennale 2024 will reflect our era’, The Art Newspaper (5 April 2024) 2023 Eve Anderson, Amber, ‘Postcards from Palestine’, BmoreArt(20 December, 2023) ‘National College of Art and Design awards inaugural Honorary Doctorate to internationally renowned artist Emily Jacir’, National College of Art and Design (1 December, 2023) Arrendondo, Brittany, ‘Fostering Justice &amp; Addressing Racism in Art Residencies: A Compassionate Approach’, Subverting Mobility (13 November, 2023) ‘Al Dar Jacir di Betlemme “Il Mare in Mezzo”: canti, musiche e danze italo-palestinesi', Pagine Esteri (16 September, 2023) البحر في الوسط (أصوات وأغاني من المتوسط)، المنصة (١٠ أيلول، ٢٠٢٣) Saracino, da Cosimo, ‘Coreutica, residenza artistica sulle danze e le musiche nel Mediterraneo’, Qui Mesagne (20 July, 2023) ‘San Vito dei Normanni, “Coreutica”: dal 17 al 23 luglio la residenza artistica’, Puglia News 24 (17 July, 2023) ‘Suoni e danze del Mediterraneo, a San Vito tornano i laboratori e le ronde di “Coreutica”’, Brindisi Report (15 July, 2023) Lei, John, ‘10 of the Best International Art Residencies Around the World’, Subverting Mobility(30 June, 2023) ‘British Council announces seven new projects from the Cultural Protection Fund’, British Council (11 May, 2023) القنواتي، د. حنا، و يوسف عبدالله محمود، "بيت لحم مدينة السلام للدكتور حنا القنواتي بمشاركة يوسف عبدالله محمود"، رأي اليوم (١٨ آذار، ٢٠٢٣) Okay, Ayca, ‘Inquiring ‘The Attentive Museum – Permeable Practices for a Common Ground’’, stir world (11 January, 2023) 2022 "مهرجان "أيام فلسطين السينمائية" يكشف أعضاء لجنة تحكيم مسابقة "طائر الشمس الفلسطيني""، وفا، (١٣ تشرين الأول، ٢٠٢٢)&nbsp; &nbsp; ‘The Art from Dar Jacir’, This Is Palestine – Institute of Middle East Understanding (15 September, 2022) "مهرجان سين لفنّ الفيديو والأداء بفلسطين.. محاولة كسر القاعدة"، ضفة ثالثة (٢٢ تموز، ٢٠٢٢)&nbsp; &nbsp; "افتتاح مهرجان سين لفنّ الفيديو والأداء"، دنيا الوطن (٢٠ تموز، ٢٠٢٢) ‘The Attentive Museum – Permeable Practices for a Common Ground’, e-flux (8 June, 2022) ‘MANIFESTIAMO’, e-flux (22 April, 2022) 2021 D’Souza, Aruna, ‘At a Cultural Hub in Bethlehem, Art Thrives in the Fray’, The New York Times (15 July, 2021) Hearst, Katherine, ‘The artists fighting Israel’s crackdown on culture’, Middle East Eye (11 July, 2021) Nugara, Silvia, ‘Dalla finestra della mia casa di Betlemme’, il manifesto (20 June, 2021) “Space, Culture and Connection: Palestinian Artists on Acts of Resistance”, Frieze (19 June, 2021) “Dar Jacir Fundraiser Boosts Target”, Art Asia Pacific (18 June, 2021) Bishara, Hakim, ‘Supporters Raise over $30K for Bethlehem Arts Center Raided by Israeli Soldiers’, Hyperallergic (14 June, 2021) “Artists launch fundraiser in support of looted West Bank arts center Dar Jacir”, Artforum (14 June, 2021) Panegyres, Markela, ‘We need to hear – and share – the voices of Palestinian artists’, green left (4 June, 2021) “Come l’anguria è diventata un simbolo della resistenza palestinese”, InfoPal news agency (2 June, 2021) &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ditmars, Hadani, ‘As Palestinians Rebuild Following the Latest War Between Israel and Hamas, Housing Will Take Center Stage’, Architectural Digest (30 May, 2021) Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, ‘Freedom Songs’, ArtForum (30 May, 2021) Quilty, Jim, ‘Three notes from an occupied territory’, The Daily Star (24 May, 2021) “A prominent West Bank arts center sustain extensive damage at the hands of the IDF”, Surface Magazine (20 May, 2021)&nbsp; Chaves, Alexandra, ‘Dar Jacir art centre in Bethlehem suffers damage after raid: ‘we’re used to rebuilding’’, The National (20 May, 2021) Hlalethwa, Zaza, ‘ ‘We will rebuild’: Palestinian artist Emily Jacir vows following the raid of her arts centre in Bethlehem’, News24 (20 May, 2021) Solomon, Tessa, ‘How Artists Are Supporting Victims of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’, ARTnews (20 May, 2021) Proctor, Rebecca Anne, ‘Caught in a War Zone, Artists and Cultural Leaders in Gaza and Israel Say the International Art Community Must Stand with Palestine’, artnet, (20 May, 2021) Ditmars, Hadani, ‘Artist-run Dar Jacir Center in Bethlehem damaged’, Art Newspaper (19 May, 2021) Bishara, Hakim, ‘Artist Emily Jacir’s Bethlehem Arts Center Ransacked by Israeli Army’, Hyperallergic (18 May, 2021) “West Bank arts center Dar Jacir ransacked”, Art Forum (18 May, 2021) Greenberger, Alex, ‘Israeli forces reportedly damage artist Emily Jacir’s West Bank art center’, ARTnews (18 May, 2021) Roxborough, Scott and Alex Ritman, ‘Disruption and Destruction as Bombings Hit Film, TV Industry in Palestine, Israel’, The Hollywood Reporter (17 May, 2021) Goodfellow, Melanie, ‘Annemarie Jacir’s Bethlehem cultural centre “ransacked” by Israeli army’, ScreenDaily (17 May, 2021) (إسرائيل تلحق ضررا بمركز الفنانة إميلى جاسر فى الضفة الغربية” اليوم السابع (١٩ أيار، ٢٠٢١” 2020 Shahin, Mariam, ‘The Arts Come Home to Bethlehem’, AramcoWorld, (January 2019) 2019 Inaugural Exhibition of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem’, A M Qattan Foundation, (July 9, 2019) Srouji, Dima, ‘The Steadfast Spirit of Bethlehem’, Harpers Bazaar, (June 26, 2019) Magazine paper copy, no link available. Wallace, Lewis, ‘In Palestine and Beyond, Tear Gas Takes Environmental Toll’, Environmental Health News, (May 28, 2019) Wallace, Lewis, ‘Human resilience and ecological resistance in the tear gas capital of the world’, Environmental Health News, (May 20, 2019) "اختتام مهرجان "ايام فلسطين السينمائية""، وكالة معا الاخبارية (١٠ تشرين الأول، ٢٠١٩) "أيام فلسطين السينمائية تناقش صورة المرأة في الأفلام،" العرب، (١٨ أيلول، ٢٠١٩) "الاحتفال بافتتاح المعرض الأول لدار يوسف نصري جاسر للفن والبحث في بيت لحم"، مؤسسة عبد المحسن قطان (تموز ٢١، ٢٠١٩) 2018 Shahin, Mariam, ‘The Seed Queen of Palestine’, Al Jazeera, (December 10, 2018) Goodfellow, Melaine, ‘How Palestine’s biggest film festival defies wall, roadblocks and a tiny budget’, screen daily (November 22, 2018) ‘Public assembly – Visible Award 2019’, Lafayette anticipations (November 16, 2018) ‘The ten shortlisted projects for the 2019 Visible Award’, Visible (November 16, 2018) Lema, Luis, ‘ En Palestine, Sur les traces d’Apollon’, Le temps (November 3, 2018) ‘5th Palestine Cinema, Days Festival Launches in West Bank’, The Palestine chronicle (October 19, 2018) Asfour, Nana, ‘When All Else Fails, There’s Culture’, The New York Times(October 16, 2018) ‘Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice’, Brittle Paper (October 8, 2018) ‘Chimurenga Receives the Vera List Center’s 2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice’, Art and Education (October 5, 2018) Greenberger, Alex, ‘Chimurenga Named Winner of Vera List Center’s 2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice’, Art News (October 4, 2018) &nbsp;القطان تختتم الدورة الاولى من مشروع الفنون البصرية: نماء واستدامة، الأيام - فبراير ٢٨، ٢٠١٨&nbsp;2017 Jackson, Eve, ‘In the Palestinian Territories: Hope and Resistance Through Culture’, France 24 (1 December, 2017) 2017 Chaval, Marion, ‘À Bethléem, la culture entre espoir et résistance’, France 24 (1 December, 2017) “A home for art in Bethlehem”, Art Basel (September, 2017) Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, ‘Our house in the middle of our street’, Spike Magazine Scarpa, Elena, ‘Elena Emily Jacir Will Transform her Family Home in Bethlehem into an Art Center’ &nbsp;عشر مؤسسات تتأهل للحصول على منح مشروع الفنون البصرية: نماء واستدامة في دورته الاولى 2017/2019، الاعلام الحقيقي أغسطس ٢٩، ٢٠١٧ غزة: أطفال القطان يختتمون فعاليات صيف 2017، قطان أغسطس ٢٨، ٢٠١٧ ‘Dar Jacir: Casa Familiar de belén con más 100 años de antiguedad convertida en un espacio residencial y cultural’, Federación Palestina de Chile (July 19, 2017) El-Saeed, Yomna, ‘Palestinian artist to transform family home to cultural hub’, Egypt Today (June 8, 2018) &nbsp;اميلي جاسر تحول بيت جدها الى مدرسة للفن", العربي الجديد يونيو ٨، ٢٠١٧ Kufur, Katrina, ‘Pledging for a West Bank Art Centre’, Harpers Bazaar Arabia (May 27, 2018) Ferraioli, Mariacristina, “Emily Jacir lancia un crowdfunding per trasformare la sua casa a Betlemme in centro d’arte”, Artribune (26 maggio 2017) Neuedorf, Henri, ‘Palestinian Artist Emily Jacir Plans to Transform Her Family Home Into a West Bank Art Center’, Artnet News (May 23, 2017) Dong, Jia, “Emily Jacir Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for New Art Center in Bethlehem’, Art Asia Pacific (May 25, 2017) Jacir, Emily, ‘Dar Jacir’, Kickstarter (May, 2017) Lectures / Talks “Global Voices: Conversations with the Jane Lombard Fellows”, If Art is Politics: Vera List Center Forum 2019 (26 October 2019). Participants: Emily Jacir, Annemarie Jacir, Hassan Muamer, Moderator: Kaelen Wilson Goldie. Hosted at The New School, New York. 2018 ‘Artists' Philanthropy and Social Responsibility’, Art Basel (June, 2018) Emily Jacir, Artist, Founding Director, Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research; Matteo Lucchetti, Exhibitions and Public Program Curator, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, and Artistic Co-Director, Visible Project, Utrecht; Zina Saro-Wiwa, Artist, New York 2018 “Jerusalem Lives,” Emily Jacir presentation. Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies, New York 2017 "Resistance”, Lecture by Emily Jacir, Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Norway 2017 “The Clock Tower at Jaffa Gate, Sheikh Suleiman Jacir, the Jerusalem Hebron Road, and other disappearances”; Lecture by Emily Jacir. Site/Border: The Fragility of Narration Clark Colloquium, Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA https://darjacir.com/Projects-1 Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:26:18 +0000 Dar Jacir https://darjacir.com/Projects-1 2024 SOUTH WEST BANK - Landworks, Collective Action and Sound,&nbsp;Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia The Revolution Cannot be Built on Dreams Alone,&nbsp; Adam Rouhana Researching Palestine, Chris Harding 2023 TAMMORRA SOLO, Luca Rossi feat. Andrea De Siena e Laura Esposito Ver el mar, Stéphanie Janaina Il Mare in Mezzo Suoni e canti dal Mediterraneo,&nbsp;Andrea De Siena, Fabrizio Piepoli, Giulia Pesole, Amwaj Choir IMPro Pitxantu, Eli Wewentxu and Nicolás Jaar&nbsp;أرضواء- Ardawaء,&nbsp;Mohammed Saleh 2022 (un)building listenings radio show, Nicholas Jaar PAESAGGIO UMANO, Emily Jacir, Andrea De Siena, Laura Esposito and Luca Rossi&nbsp; Wherever you sow grain, the grain grows,&nbsp;Andrea De Siena and Emily Jacir(un)building listenings, (un)listening buildings II, Nicholas Jaar (un)building listenings, (un)listening buildings, Nicholas Jaar 2019 Incontro tra la Pizzica e la Dabka, Emily Jacir and Andrea de Siena A Strong, Safe And Sound Structure,&nbsp;Sebastián Rawicz Depth Unknown, Dima Srouji Foragers, Jumana Manna Al Ghorbal, Ayed ArafahSign for Dar Jacir, Sam Durant Dar Jacir Plaque, Tai PomaraEchorot, Nicolás Jaar Urban Farm, Mohammed Saleh 2018 Dar Jacir’s Archives, Emily JacirHome and Traveling Kitchen, Vivien Sansour Nothing Impossible, Duncan Campbell and Samer Barbari https://darjacir.com/un-building-listenings-radio-show-1 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:23:25 +0000 Dar Jacir https://darjacir.com/un-building-listenings-radio-show-1 (un)building listenings radio showby Nicolás Jaar Featuring sounds by workshop participants Malak Abdelwahab, Ayed Arafah, Emily Jacir, Essa Grayeb, Elias Wakeem and Amani Yaqob. Aired on Radio Alhara. https://soundcloud.com/otherpeoplerecords/unbuilding-listenings-radioshow/s-SrLjITlxlnQ?utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing https://darjacir.com/PAESAGGIO-UMANO-1 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:06:36 +0000 Dar Jacir https://darjacir.com/PAESAGGIO-UMANO-1 PAESAGGIO UMANO led by Emily Jacir, Andrea De Siena, Laura Esposito and Luca Rossi In September 2022, a group of professional dancers and musicians who had previously attended workshops over the years at Dar Jacir created new work related to land, farming, agriculture and memory. Their research was presented in the form of a movement, a gesture, a picture, a poem, a memory, an interview and elders from a village singing a song about the earth. After sharing their research, they built together a new dance piece and an original music score. This work is dedicated to Moataz Zawahreh who was killed by Israeli snipers on October 13, 2015 while at a protest in front of Dar Jacir. Many in the workshop knew him and footage was shared of his body being carried through the terraces of Dar Jacir immediately after he was shot, in the hopes of getting him to a hospital in time. لذكرى معتز زواهرة In memoriam Moataz Zawahreh curator |القيّمة Emily Jacir | املي جاسر choreographer | مصمم الرقصة Andrea De Siena | أندريا دي سيينا assistant choreographer |مصممة رقصات مساعدة Laura Esposito | لورا ايسبيسيتو music and music production: موسيقى وإنتاج موسيقي___ Luca Rossi | لوكا روسي Firas Harb | فراس حرب vocals: Shahd Awawdeh | شهد عواودة dancers: Motasem Abo Shera | معتصم أبو شعيرة Momen Alqrby | مؤمن القربي Shahd Awawdeh | شهد عواودة Andrea De Siena | أندريا دي سيينا Laura Esposito | لورا ايسبيسيتو Emily Jacir | املي جاسر Rebecca Kaoud | ريبيكا قاعود Tamara Odeh | تمارا عودة Manar Raje | منار راجي Photography | تصوير Nurin Kaoud | نورين قاعود Editor | مونتير Baha’ Abu Shanab | بهاء أبو شنب Curated by Emily Jacir as part of Common Ground: an international festival on the politics of land and food, supported by the OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College and the Fisher Center LAB. https://darjacir.com/Incontro-tra-la-Pizzica-e-la-Dabka-by-Emily-Jacir-and-Andrea-de-Siena Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:01:10 +0000 Dar Jacir https://darjacir.com/Incontro-tra-la-Pizzica-e-la-Dabka-by-Emily-Jacir-and-Andrea-de-Siena Incontro tra la Pizzica e la Dabka by Emily Jacir and Andrea de Siena Incontro tra la Pizzica e la Dabkaa project by Emily Jacir and Andrea de SienaCollaborators: Emily Jacir and Andrea De Sienna, Ludovica Morleo, Fabrizio Piepoli and Vincenzo Gagliani Participants: Laith Hammad, Mustafa Hammad, Omar Zboun, ali Obeid, Ghadeer Odeh, Basel Ikhmaies, Nadia Sarras, Dima Awad, Tareq Abu Salameh, Ossama Bawardi, Sylvia Truini, Nakhleh Sarras, Baker Qarake, Iyad Sharea’, and Juma Al Dabank. Dar Jacir welcomed the Scuola di Pizzica di San Vito and the World Music Academy to Bethlehem in December, 2019 in which dancers and musicians from Salento collaborated with local musicians and dancers for a first encounter and research for a performance to take place in 2020. This performance which was initially slated to take place in a public piazza in Bethlehem, was instead performed live on facebook as a first piece created together.Under the patronage of the Consulate General of Italy in Jerusalem, Dar YusufNasri Jacir for Art and Research, and the Scuola Di Pizzica di San Vito. https://darjacir.com/un-building-listenings-un-listening-buildings-1 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 06:56:20 +0000 Dar Jacir https://darjacir.com/un-building-listenings-un-listening-buildings-1 (un)building listenings, (un)listening buildings Led by Nicolás Jaar. Featuring sound works by&nbsp; Malak Abdelwahab, Ayed Arafah, Emily Jacir, Essa Grayeb, Elias Wakeem and Amani Yaqob The final performance of Nicolás Jaar's (un)building listenings, (un)listening buildings workshop performed live at Dar Jacir. After an initial online phase of 4 months in 2021, the group met (mostly) in person at Dar Jacir from November 2021 until February 2022. Workshop participants, all of which had never made electronic music before, learned how to use audio editing software to create sound pieces and performances. All the participants presented their creations and the performances were introduced by Nicolás Jaar.