PJ Bruyniks- Amsterdam (image)
David Mcnab- Sheffield, UK (text)
B) defamiliarisation
removal of a familiar,
removal of a familiar,
a familiar can mean (dictionary) 'a spirit or demon supposed
to come to a person', so probably a relief.
Artist/Curator
- Diana Ali
- Diana Ali is a British Bangladeshi Visual Artist and Independent Curator living and working in Nottingham, UK. Her practice involves fictional narratives, analogue video making, a play on text. She is interested in correspondence, communication, connectivity and collaboration and this is extended through her international curatorial projects. She travels, gets lost and collects themes of political responses and reactions, cultural and language boundaries, human interaction; bringing different fragments of cultures into one space. As an artist she has exhibited in London, Victoria, Australia, San Francisco, Tehran and Pakistan. To date she has independently curated fourteen shows in the UK, Romania, California, Lisbon, Cyprus, South Korea and Israel. She is currently working with promoting and advocating the importance of creative thinking and making in different sectors outside of art. She is also a creative mentor, workshop leader, a trustee for The Nottingham Women’s Centre and Axis and a Fine Art lecturer at Loughborough University and Open College of Arts. She has appeared in several art programmes as a professional mentor and presenter on BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4.
1 comment:
This is a compilation of a news photo and the announcement of the anti-muslim movie Fitna made by the Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders.
The newsphoto show Afghani's burning a Dutch flag. Something very unfamiliar for Dutch people.
Even more unfamiliar is the removal of the spirit in Holland of tolerance and understanding. It is becoming an us or them-mentality.
Because of this my photo-compilation is more a statement about what is going on in Holland ... complete defamiliarisation.
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