I blogged this work before, but Francis Alys has (finally) posted all the video interviews from piec

I blogged this work before, but Francis Alys has (finally) posted all the video interviews from piece The Green Line (2004): ‘Sometimes doing something poetic can become political, and sometimes doing something political can become poetic’.In the summer of 1995 [Alys] performed a walk with a leaking can of blue paint in the city of São Paulo.The walk was then read as a poetic gesture of sorts. In June 2004, I re-enacted that same performance with a leaking can of green paint by tracing a line following the portion of the ‘Green Line’ that runs through the municipality of Jerusalem. 58 liters of green paint were used to trace 24 km. Shortly after, a filmed documentation of the walk was presented to a number of people whom I invited to react spontaneously to the action and the circumstances within which it was performed.TATE modern goes on to describe that:Though palpably absurd, and greeted by onlookers with some bewilderment, Alÿs’s action of dribbling green paint behind him raised the memory of the green line at a time when the separation fence, seen in his paintings here, was under construction to the east of the green line. He later encouraged various commentators from Israel, Palestine, and other countries to reflect on his action, and their voices, sometimes sceptical, sometimes approving, can be heard while the video of his action is screened. Most importantly Alÿs wanted to ask what the role of poetic acts could be in highly charged political situations, while acknowledging that the relation of poetics to politics is always contingent.Unfortunately the videos of this work can not be embedded in tumblr, but can be viewed and download for free under creative-commons, via his site. Links to each of the interviews are here. *Eyal Weizman’s is particularly good.Rima HamamiJerusalem - AnthropologistAlbert AgazarianJerusalem – HistorianYael Dayan Tel Aviv - Member of KnessetJean Fisher London - Art HistorianRuben Aberjil Jerusalem - ActivistAmira Hass Ramallah - JournalistNazmi JobehJerusalem – ArchitectEyal Sivan Tel Aviv and Paris - FilmmakerEyal Weizman Tel Aviv and London - ArchitectMichel Warschawski Jerusalem - Activist**I’ve now uploaded one interview myself via vimeoFrancis Alys: The Green Line: Interview with Rima Hamami (part 1 of 11 interviews). from leslie on Vimeo. -- source link

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