Re: [-empyre-] Week 2 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice (Garrett Lynch) (Dorit Naaman)

[H HHP]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dorit,

Are there invisible geographies in terrains inhabited by colonizers and
colonized?


Horit

Horit Herman Peled
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(Routledge, 2018*)*


On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 5:13 AM, Dorit Naaman 
wrote:

> --empyre- soft-skinned space--
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> Horit,
>
> I am not sure I understand the second part of your question. Perhaps it is
> the punctuation, which seems to have been messed up somehow. Can you
> reiterate?
>
>
>
> As per the first part: yes, I think that political amnesia affects
> individuals, which in turn creates invisible geographies. I don’t think it
> is the only reason/cause/source of invisible geographies, but certainly one
> of them, especially in the case of dispossession.
>
>
>
> There is, of course, a lot to say about in regards to internal Jewish
> dienfranchisment in Israel, but I am not sure what the question is.
>
>
>
> Dorit
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>
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> *?Invisible Geographies are often at the root of what enables political
>
> amnesia?.*
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>
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> 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?
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Re: [-empyre-] Week 2 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice (Garrett Lynch)

[H HHP]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--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 
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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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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Re: [-empyre-] Week 2 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice (Garrett Lynch)

[Dorit Naaman]

--empyre- soft-skinned space--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.

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.

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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