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Tunisair (Germany)

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Tunisair supports 9 German artists to join INTERFERENCE. Thank you!

Tanja Dersch, Tunisair Frankfurt (de): “Tunisair is proud to support this first Light Art Festival in Tunisia and Africa in the Medina of Tunis. It is so important to give artists around the world the possibility to show their work and to help realizing such a great cultural project. Therefore we decided to sponsor this special event with Tunisair flights from Germany to Tunisia for all German artists. We are looking forward admiring their performances, being a part of this unique project and bringing people together across borders.”

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About Tunisair: Since its foundation in 1948 the national Tunisian airline continuously developed its network. Today Tunisair operates worldwide to more than 100 destinations in 28 countries and serves the major cities in Europe, Africa and Near East. In Germany, Tunisair is active for 55 years. Scheduled flights operate 21 times per week nonstop from Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Hamburg to Tunis, Enfidha and Djerba. Flight time is 2.5 hours on average. The fleet presently consists of 30 aircrafts of Airbus and Boeing. International certificates such as ISO 9001, JAR-OPS and IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) confirm the quality of the fleet and the safety on board. You can book your flight online www.tunisair.com or directly in our service offices.

ZINA

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INTERFERENCE Project: Dar Dhaw, Luminaires On Display
Tunisian designers Adrienne & Camille Bouyssonie exhibit a choice of their luminaire designs.

INTERFERENCE Site: Dar Cherif (5 Rue Sidi Mouaouia)

DESIGN LABEL: ZINA by Adrienne & Camille Bouyssonie
Since 2004| Based in the neighborhood of La Marsa | Tunis(tn)

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(Photos: ZINA)

DESIGNERS’ APPROACH
Zina’s production encompasses furniture, textile, tableware, decorative objects and luminaires. In their view, craftsmanship and design are two concepts strictly linked to each other. Therefore, their creations combine traditional patterns, materials and crafts with the taste, the needs and the techniques of contemporary lifestyle. In line with this approach, they use simple, natural materials such as wood, ceramics, blown glass and linen… all materials employed in Tunisian traditional handicraft.

EXHIBITIONS
Every year | Maison & Objet | Paris(fr)
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Adrienne & Camille Bouyssonie | DEVELOPMENT
Adrianne and Camille Bouyssonie launched their Tunisian design label, Zina, in 2004. Following its success in Tunsia, a further headquarters was established in Vichy (fr). Every year Zina’s products are staged at the “Salon Maison et Objet” (Home and Objects Fair) of Paris and are exported worldwide.

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Facebook page

Margareta Hesse

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Bordering Light

Red lines of laser light define a space in which a pair of traditional women shoes are placed. The cryptic nature of this installation invites the viewer to investigate possible solutions to a mysterious story.

SITE

Bir Lahjar
Place Bir Lahjar
Medina of Tunis

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I chose to participate in this project because I am curious. I have never been to Tunisia. Morocco is the only Arab country I visited. I have been exhibiting in countries, for example in Bulgaria, that are coined by a different culture, but there, I barely interacted with local communities.

In this project, this will be completely different: I am bringing my lasers indeed, but there are some materials and tools that I cannot take with me. Therefore, I would need local assistance and I am actually looking forward to experiencing that. I am sure I will learn a lot.

Another reason for participating is that I very quickly had an idea for a laser installation. This special idea resulted from the INTERFERENCE programme which includes political discussions, too. I like the focus on the exchange between local and international artists as well as between us, the participating artists, and the interested visitors. Besides, I am very curious to see the historic architecture of the city. In fact, beautiful architecture inspires me. I am happy that I will be able to build my installation in a space which fascinated me as soon as I saw its images.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

“Colour and light are the creative media that exercise the greatest pull on Berlin artist Margareta Hesse as a creative medium for her work.

(…) from colour to light, from the material to the immaterial, from the rational to the emotional. Whilst Hesse’s works can collectively be seen within a distinctive context located between austere constructivism and the expressive-emotive, between geometry and gesture, between the conceptual and the experimental, between concrete materiality and a virtual, immaterial appearance, it nevertheless remains difficult to categorise her. (…)

The effect of her laser installations thence lies in the generating of sensualist environments and atmospheric spaces for intense encounter in which perceptions, findings and experiences become amplified. (…)

The bright red laser beams of this body of work draw glowing paths as it were, through its recurrent dark, hazy, unfamiliar spaces, and visitors to these regularly take up the guys of light as if the artist had handed them Ariadne’s thread through labyrinths abounding in discoveries to be made and profound experiences to be had.”

(Excerpt from From Colour to Light, from the Material to the Immaterial, from the Rational to the Emotional by Pamela C. Scorzin)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2014 Celle (de), ARTMUSEUM
2013 Ahlen (de), ARTMUSEUM
2011 Linz/Rhein(de), ART ASSOCIATION
2010 Darmstadt (de), MATHILDENHÖHE
2009 Berlin (de), ZITADELLE
Since 1990 Regular exhibition activity, mainly in Germany
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SELECTED AWARDS

2015 Berlin (de), Art Award of Fine Arts Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
2004 Hamm (de), Culture Award by the City of Hamm
1995 Darmstadt (de), Artist Encouragement Award by Damrstädter Session
1991 Dortmund (de), Hoesch – Artist Grant “Werkkunst”

DEVELOPMENT

Since 1995 Dortmund (de), UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ART: Professorship
1975-1982 Studies in Fine Arts and Romance Studies
1956 Duederstadt (de), Born

LINKS

margareta-hesse.de
facebook/margareta.hesse

Tom Groll + Kuno Seltmann

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INTERFERENCE Project: Biocenosis
A mix of photographic footage from the Medina, the artists’ home area and natural phenomena are collaged in a projection environment.

INTERFERENCE Site: El Maktaa (rue De la Carrière, Tunis)

ARTIST’S STATEMENT: Dealing with light is dealing with energy, too.
I have been working with Bettina (Pelz) for such a long time that I think that I had no choice to say “no” when she asked me to join INTERFERENCE. Now, I am more than happy to be part of this project. Meeting with all the team in Tunis in May 2016, I felt this irresistible energy that surfaced when we tested the first projection works. To walk from site to site, to see the interaction of the historic sites, the contemporary technology and the artistic materials of the colleagues was full of fun surprises and inspiration. Meeting the Medina people who helped with tools and electricity made me aware of the human and social qualities which are present in the Tunisian culture. I am looking forward to share more time and experiences with all the accomplices of INTERFERENCE. (Text by Tom Groll)

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ARTISTIC APPROACH
In his artistic research, Tom Groll focuses on the experience of continuous transformation. His research revolves mainly around the opposites realms of what can be perceived by human senses and the imagination; his goal being to capture reality revealing unspotted issues.
Actually, he started experimenting his personal approach on light art when he was completing the project Illuminare Zonen (Illuminated Zones) in 2001. It was then that, while he was carrying out the scholarship “Märkisches Stipendium”, he started exploring how to integrate light to artistic creation. Since then, he has been working on light installations at both venues and in public space.
The collaboration between Tom Groll and Kuno Seltmann dates back to 2015. Together, they work on large-scale architectural projections.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016| Kunstverein Montez with FLUX | Frankfurt (de)
2015| LICHTUNGEN | Hildesheim (de)
2014| GLOW | Eindhoven (nl)
2011| Eisteddfod Festival | Wrexham (uk)
2009| Narrcaje (with Bettina Pelz) | Gdansk (pl)
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Tom Groll | DEVELOPMENT
Since 2002| Regular curatorial activity | Mainly in Germany and EU
Since 1992| Regular exhibition activity | Mainly Germany and EU
1989-1995| Studies in Fine Arts and Visual Communication | Cologne and Duesseldorf (de)
1985-1989| Apprenticeship as a carpenter | Garmisch-Partenkirchen (de)
1964| Born
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Kuno Seltmann | DEVELOPMENT
Up to present| Artistic research and experimentation on film, sound, print and Web
2014| Degree in Media Studies | University of Siegen | Siegen (de)
1989| Born

LINKS
Tom Groll | Web

Press Freedom Index 2016

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(caption width=”1060″ align=”alignnone”) Mapping the freedom of press worldwide 2015 (/caption)

Reporters Without Borders: Journalists worldwide under increasing pressure. April 20, 2016.
The biggest upward climber is Tunisia (96, +30), which despite all the continuing deficits, starts to harvest the fruits of the media reforms since 2011. Violence and lawsuits against journalists are still a problem, but declining …>>(de)

// Reporter ohne Grenzen: Journalisten weltweit unter zunehmendem Druck – Rangliste der Pressefreiheit 2016. 20.04.2016.
Größter Aufsteiger ist Tunesien (96, +30), das ungeachtet aller weiterhin bestehenden Defizite die Früchte der Medienreformen seit dem Umbruch von 2011 zu ernten beginnt. Gewalt und Prozesse gegen Journalisten sind dort weiterhin ein Problem, aber in der Tendenz rückläufig … >>
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Hotel Carlton

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The hotel is only a few minutes walking distance from the Medina of Tunis, the historical core of the capital, which is experiencing a new dynamism with dozens of renovations and highlighted entire neighborhoods and ancient palaces …

Carlton Hotel
31, Avenida Habiba Bourguiba
Tunis
T +216 71 330 644
infos@hotelcarlton.com

Five years after the earthh quake in Christchurch: Gap Fillers’ projects are great

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From their website: Gap Filler is a creative urban regeneration initiative that facilitates a wide range of temporary projects, events, installations and amenities in the city. These short-term and comparatively small-scale projects are far less risky than new permanent developments – and consequently open up opportunities for experimentation: trying new ideas, pushing social boundaries, adopting participatory processes to get everyday people involved in creating their city. Working with local community groups, artists, architects, landowners, librarians, designers, students, engineers, dancers – anyone with an idea and initiative – we activate city spaces for temporary, creative, people-centred purposes. By recycling materials, teaming up with suppliers, harnessing volunteer power and being creative, Gap Filler proves that the regeneration of the city does not rely solely on large-scale developments by the private or public sectors. Great things can be achieved with community power and resourcefulness; we can be flexible and swift in adapting to our changing city, meaning our projects will always provide contemporary reflection on the state of society. Ultimately, Gap Filler aims to innovate, lead and nurture people and ideas; contributing to conversations about city-making and urbanism in the 21st century. >>

John Holden – How we value culture and arts

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(:en)John Holden explains the value of creative and cultural work to the economy, foreign relations and individual identity.
John is an associate at the independent think tank Demos and a visiting professor at City University, London. He has been involved in numerous major projects with the cultural sector ranging across heritage, libraries, music, museums, the performing arts and the moving image.

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Interview of Zygmunt Bauman by El Pais

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(:en)Zygmunt Bauman: “Social media are a trap”
The Polish-born sociologist is skeptical about the possibilities for political change

El Pais: You say that progress is a myth, because people no longer believe the future will be better than the past.
Zygmunt Baumann: We are in a period of interregnum, between a time when we had certainties and another when the old ways of doing things no longer work. We don’t know what is going to replace this. We are experimenting with new ways of doing things. Spain tried questioning things through the May 15 (15M) movement, when people took over public spaces, arguing, trying to replace parliamentary procedures with a kind of direct democracy. This hasn’t lasted long. Austerity policies will continue, nobody could stop them, but they could still be relatively effective in finding new ways to do things. >>(:)

Triki, Rachida: Visual Art in North Africa …

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(:en)Triki, Rachida: Visual Art in North Africa and the Modernity Historist Identification

Problems of visual arts in the Maghreb
The problems encountered by the artists and museums at work are often the same ones in the Maghreb countries, because of the colonial history and the institutional structures:
– recognition of the creation by a larger audience
– no real promotion promotion through through the media
– how to have more public space for exhibitions
– difficulties of financing for artist’s projects and exhibitions
– the weakness of the structures for art criticism
– the absence of a real market of art
– how to reach the networks networks of the international international market

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Traumorte – Tunesien (de)

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(:en)3sat, 8. Januar 2016: Traumorte – Tunesien
Trotz seiner Wüsten ist Tunesien ein Fest der Sinne und ein Juwel Nordafrikas. Das Land beeindruckt mit seinem reichen kulturellen Erbe und faszinierender Architektur. >>(:)

Dar Ben Gacem

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Dar Ben Gacem is an oasis of calm nestled in the heart of a UNESCO heritage site, surrounded by historical monuments and artisan workshops that carry on the legacy of their ancestors. We are a social enterprise that supports cultural preservation while providing an authentic Tunisian experience….

Dar Ben Gacem
38, Rue du Pacha
1006 Tunis
Phone +21671563742 (ar/fr/en)
Email info@darbengacem.com

Open Space Tunis

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(:en)INTERFERENCE is thought to be a brainstroming platform. It is meeting and a working space. It asks for participation, creates debates and is a laboratory of ideas to foster the democratic culture in Tunisia and the Maghreb.

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Tunis, Medina | Sara Foerster
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