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Cartographic maps are to Ariane Littman the raw material, the content, and the inspiration of her artwork. The field, which she encounters as a freelance news photographer during the years 2005-2008, becomes the physical space where reality is processed and later projected into new imaginary spaces in her studio. There, she can alter the reality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by removing borders and separation walls, boldly deconstructing the hegemonic power inscribed on the maps. Dwelling within competitive narratives Littman proposes, in her performance-video works, a critical reading of maps in which her body becomes the very site of an embodied cartography where geographic and artistic boundaries collapse. This movie reviews Ariane's inventive uses of maps as it follows her to the edge of the city of Jerusalem in her perambulatory routes triggered by the Second Intifada, in a quest to transcend borders and fear. At the end of her peregrinations in the conflicting spaces of Border Land, Ariane, longing for healing, projects herself into the new fictional spaces of Wounded Land. There in a Sisyphean process, she bandages and sews with a green thread the collective wound that runs through the geographic and human landscape of the Holy Land. Directed and Edited by Michal Shachnai Narrator: Rebecca Ehrenpreis Produced by Studio 11 Cinematography Omri Lior, Yair Tsriker and Michal Shachnai Original Music by Amir Yaakobi, Gerhard Fankhauser, Einat Gilboa & Yoham Project Sound design by Amir Yaakobi Cover designed by Yael Bogen Cover image by Oded Antmann Photos of news events & art works by Ariane Littman Photos of art works by Oded Antmann, Andrew Roth, Mike Ganor & Brian Hendler DVD video Widescreen: 16:9 29:16 minutes, color Language: English and Hebrew Subtitles: English and Hebrew All rights reserved: Ariane Littman 2012 www.ariane-littman.com

Aerial I, production still from Shadow Sites II, 2011, Single channel digital video Courtesy the Artist, Rose Issa Projects and Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2011. Photography Adrian Warren

GAN HASHLOSHA NATIONAL PARK, Israel — The image is both idyllic and carefully staged: nearly a dozen foreign photographers, some of them celebrated on the international art scene, posing for a collective portrait on a sunny November morning against a startling green pool in this lush park in northern Israel.

DAAR [Decolonizing Architecture/Art Residency] DAAR is an art and architecture collective and a residency programme based in Beit Sahour, Palestine. DAAR’s work combines discourse, spatial intervention, education, collective learning, public meetings and legal challenges. DAAR’s practice is centred on one of the most difficult dilemmas of political practice: how to act both propositionally and critically within an environment in which the political force field is so dramatically distorted. It proposes the subversion, reuse, profanation and recycling of the existing infrastructure of a colonial occupation. DAAR projects have been shown showed in various biennales and museums, among them Venice Biennale, the Bozar in Brussels, NGBK in Berlin, the Istanbul Biennial, The Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Home Works in Beirut, Architekturforum Tirol in Innsbruk, the Tate in London, the Oslo Triennial, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and many other places. DAAR’s members have taught lectured and published internationally. In 2010 DAAR was awarded the Price Claus Prize for Architecture, received Art initiative Grant, and shortlisted for the Chrnikov Prize.