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Quoting Dorit:
*“Invisible Geographies are often at the root of what enables political
amnesia”.*
Is it really, numbness, or political amnesia that fuel the terrain of
“Invisible Geographies” within the r[d]eterritorialized “Land of Israel” in
the different Jewish ethnic communities which compose the state of Israel?
Horit Herman Peled
Horit Herman Peled
2016-2017, Soho, London
http://www.espacemultimediagantner.cg90.net/the-collection/?lang=en
horit.com
Yoav Peled & Horit Herman Peled, *The Religionization* of *Israeli Society*
(Routledge, forthcoming*)*
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Dorit Naaman <dorit.naa...@queensu.ca>
wrote:
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> Thank you, Dale, for the invitation to participate in this discussion.
> Invisible Geographies are often at the root of what enables political
> amnesia. My project “Jerusalem, We Are Here” www.jerusalemwearehere.com
> is an interactive doc that digitally re-inscribes Palestinians back into
> the neighborhoods from which they were dispossessed by the 1948 war. Most
> Jerusalemites know that the best neighborhoods in Jerusalem were Arab
> neighborhoods, but hardly anyone thinks about the people who lived in those
> houses, the Palestinians who lost everything by that war. Similarly,
> hardly ever do the Anishnabe and Haudenosaune people of Katarokwi,
> considered in what is now Kingston, Ontario, Canada, or my other home. The
> political and historical conditions of erasure are different, of course,
> but the fact remains that the present dominates our sense of space, and it
> is not easy to see that which is not materially present in-front of us.
>
>
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> My impetus to make “Jerusalem, We Are Here” was born out of a sense of
> urgent need to make visible, that which has been erased and obfuscated.
> Digital media enabled a platform in which we can navigate the Israeli
> present tense visually (through google streetview and our own
> intervention), but are surrounded by a soundscape that is Palestinian and
> from the 1940s. As we meander virtually down the streets of Jerusalem, we
> meet participants who collaboratively made short films about their homes.
>
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> In a sense I try to de-territorialize (to use Garrett and Frederique’s
> suggestion) a space, in order to defamiliarize it for Israelis, and invite
> the Palestinians back, without a need for permits, checkpoints, and intense
> Israeli scrutiny and surveillance. But I also hope to ignite a question
> mark about the spaces we inhabit more generally, a question about what is
> it that we don’t see, and why?
>
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