Tracing erased memories: A parallel city walk of Amsterdam & Cairo
WALK. UNCOVER. TRACE.
It is hard to keep some memories of our cities with the rapid and constant changing cityscape. The city changes and the traces of our struggles are slowly erased. As an attempt to trace some of the violent memories our cities had gone through in the struggle for better living conditions, we are constructing
Tracing erased memories: A parallel city walk of Amsterdam & Cairo
WALK. UNCOVER. TRACE.
It is hard to keep some memories of our cities with the rapid and constant changing cityscape. The city changes and the traces of our struggles are slowly erased. As an attempt to trace some of the violent memories our cities had gone through in the struggle for better living conditions, we are constructing this walk: a walk through Amsterdam while exchanging your view with a person in Cairo. Experience the changing image of both cities in relation to different socio-political events. We are focusing on the 2011 Egyptian revolution in downtown Cairo and the recent evictions of squatters in Amsterdam’s city center. We all share memories of these events, though the changing urbanscape is erasing the memory of our cities.
About the project:
Through a choreographed roadmap, you walk through the city center in Amsterdam with headphones and a tablet. Meanwhile, you see and hear the parallel experience of a person walking in Downtown Cairo. Your walk will be double-layered with selected moments of history appearing as overlapped traces to the real-time experience.
This project will premiere at Fringe Festival in Amsterdam from 6 until 16 September 2018.
Experience our walk. Buy your tickets now!
http://amsterdamfringefestival.nl/en/programma/tracing-erased-memories/
Your support:
To realize this project we need to buy technical equipment in order to overlay the experience of different places and different times all in one walk. Please support us. Donate now and share it with your friends.
Who we are:
The NarrativeCollective is the operating name of Hilda Moucharrafieh, as a platform for collaborating with other artists and researchers on common interests in opening discussions around different possibilities of decontextualization and recontextualization of identities in subjective histories and contemporary narratives. The work is generally manifested through performative installations.
http://www.thenarrativecollective.com
Hilda Moucharrafieh (b. 1986, Lebanon) is an Amsterdam-based artist working through performance and performative installations. For this project, having its premiere at Fringe, Hilda designed the roadmap in Amsterdam based on her involvement with the group We Are Here and several squatter communities across the city.
Dina Mohamed (b. 1987, Egypt) is an art student working as a human rights researcher with a background in philosophy. She designed the roadmap in Cairo driven from her own experience of the clashes with the police while living in downtown Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Nieuwste donaties
Jojo
22-08-2018 13:58Nice project! Go for it Hilda!!!
Een donateur
20-08-2018 15:55Its an amazing idea! Keep going, girls!!!!!!!
lazordi
19-08-2018 10:31it deserves the support
