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The Spacemakers

Private View: 29 July, 18:00 – 20:30
at sleeper and Tent Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art.
 
Exhibition: 30 July – 24 August 2010
Tent Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, 78 Westport, Edinburgh EH1 2LE
Mon – Fri, 10:00 – 17:00, Saturday: 11:00 – 17:00. Free. www.asnse.eca.ac.uk
sleeper, 6 Darnaway Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6BG
Mon – Fri, 10:00 – 17:00, closed on Saturdays. Free. www.sleeper1.com


Participating artists: Taysir Batniji, decolonizing.ps (Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman), Jawad al Malhi. Films and videos by Nikolaj Bendix, Hala Elkoussy, mounir fatmi, Bouchra Khalili, Judy Price, Basma Sharif and Solmaz Shahbazi.

The Delfina Foundation presents The Spacemakers, a group exhibition, which explores artistic perspectives on the immediate challenges of creating a home in some of today’s most diverse and harried urban areas.

The planning and construction of a home articulates personal needs as well as the necessity to improve on one’s general living circumstances. Ideals of a secure home of bodily comfort, and the creation of borders to protect them, significantly inform our social and spatial existences. Notions of home as personal space and as political territory are undeniably intertwined, and in urban areas throughout the world, the relationship between one and the “other” is also informed by spatial organisation strategies, led by economic and political decisions. How do architecture and urbanism inform social infrastructures and cohesion? How do personal desires for the materiality of a home intersect with wider socio-political agendas and ideologies, in the formation of contemporary urban landscapes?

Taking Palestine as its starting point and spanning examples from Cairo, Istanbul, Tehran, New York and the U.A.E., The Spacemakers offers a global measure of the immediate challenges of producing habitats in epicenters of social, economical or political tension.

Related events:

Artist talk – Jawad al Malhi: The exhibiting artist presents his work
Saturday 31 July, 12:00 – 13:00, Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 1BP.
Free. www.stills.org

Artist talk – Taysir Batniji: The exhibiting artist presents his work
Saturday 31 July, 13:30 – 14:30, Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 1BP.
Free. www.stills.org

Performance: A response to the themes of the exhibition, by audio- visual collective Tashweesh (Basel Abbas, boikutt and Ruanne Abou-Rahme.)
Thursday 5 August 2010, 16:00, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art.
Free, book directly with The Delfina Foundation: 0207 233 5344 or info@delfinafoundation.com
Other Tashweesh performances include:
Monday 2 August, 21:00, The Forest Cafe, Edinburgh
Tuesday 3 August, 20:00, CCA, Glasgow
More information: www.beyondborders2010.com

Exhibition tour:  Eva Langret (The Delfina Foundation) introduces the exhibition
Friday 6 August, 13:00, starts at Tent Gallery, Evolution House, 78 Westport, Edinburgh EH1 2LE. Free.

Film screenings:
The Fourth Room (2005) and 5 Minutes from Home (2008): Two films by award-winning director Nahed Awwad
Saturday 21 August, 16:45, Edinburgh Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ.
£6.90/£5.20 concessions.
To book tickets, please call 0131 228 2688
www.filmhousecinema.com

The Time that Remains (2009): A semi-biographical film by award-winning director Elia Suleiman
Saturday 21 August, 18:30, Edinburgh Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ.
£6.90/£5.20 concessions.
To book tickets, please call 0131 228 2688
www.filmhousecinema.com

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