Time suspended: Herman Asselberghs, Els Opsomer, Pieter Van Bogaert

AUTEUR(S): Herman Asselberghs, Pieter van Bogaert.

TAAL: Engels.
MEDEWERKER(S): Els Opsomer.
UITGEVER: Exhibitions International.
JAAR: 2004.
PAGINA’S: 216.
DRUK: Eerste editie.
FORMAAT: 210 x 140 x mm.
GEWICHT: 450 gram.
STAAT: Nieuw (New).
UITVOERING: Paperback / zachte kaft / gelijmd.
ISBN/EAN: 9789080883918.

BESCHRIJVING

In November 2002, the Brussels based authors of this book went on a ten day visit to Palestine. Like most western tv-viewers and newspaper readers, their knowledge of the deep and long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict came from mainstream media coverage. On the ground they witnessed a complexity that standard soundbite formats cannot possibly encompass. This trio of artists and critics here challenges years of media-tinted observation with a record of their short encounter with everyday life in Palestine. In Jerusalem, Ramallah and Gaza they saw both occupier and occupied perpetually awaiting radical change. As if time were suspended.Time Suspended aims to escape from fixed formatting. It is an artists book that can be read as a travel account. At the same time, it takes a critical look at the way the Israel-Palestine conflict presents itself to the everyday Western world. In his contribution Reality Check, Pieter Van Bogaert confronts his prior knowledge with the political facts he witnessed on site. In A.M.P.M., Herman Asselberghs frames his visit in the broader picture of global media terror. In her photographs, Els Opsomer refuses the spectacular and shows Palestinian everyday spaces instead. In Time Suspended, text and image fuse into a different take on a too familiar subject.