Gosia Juszczak: July 2011

Jul 31, 2011

Jul 30, 2011

amman - cats and stairs

Amman is built on seven hills, or jabals, each of which more or less defines a neighborhood. Going down is fun and going up? Well ... you just take a taxi!

Jul 28, 2011

An interview with Hussein Alazaat, book collector and designer.

This video was made for the workshop held in the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, in June 2011. (typefacesforkids.blogspot.com)

Shot at: Syntaxdigital in Amman, Jordan (syntaxdigital.com)
Directed by: Marian Misiak (berszmisiak.com)
Edited by: Gosia Juszczak (gosiajuszczak.blogspot.com)
Intervievee: Hussein Alazaat (alazaat.com)

Jul 19, 2011

Susu, Du3a and Ashar

A few words of comment. The exhibition "Out of Place" explores "the relationship between dominan political forces and personal histories looking at urban space, architectural structures and the condition of displacement." Susu and Du3a themselves are refugees, originally from Al-Khalil (Hebron), occupied Palestinian territory, the place where I lived and worked but they can't visit.

Thank you guys for this inspiring afternoon in Darat al Funun!

Jul 18, 2011

Umm Qais. a viewpoint over the lost land

Umm Qais (Arabic: أم قيس‎) is a town in Jordan located on the site of the ruined Hellenistic-Roman city of Gadara, a semi-autonomous city of the Roman Decapolis. The site of Gadara can align both textually and geographically with the biblical account of how Jesus healed the demoniacs and cast the demons into a herd of swine which ran into the sea of Galilee.

Umm Qais is known for its beautiful views over the Palestinian countryside, overlooking Lake Tiberius and the Golan Heights, claimed by and recognized as Syria, but under Israeli occupation since 1967. Since approximately two-thirds of Jordanians can claim Palestinian descent, Umm Qais has recently emerged as a pilgrimage site for Jordanians yearning for a glimpse of their former homeland.