Tamir Zadok’s film Gaza Canal ,תעלת עזה is nothing less then brilliant. Zadok’s humorist approach to this politically charged subject matter is genius. If you haven’t seen yet this film you absolutely must watch it. Just beware that the film completely rely on fabricated contents and “facts”.
Gaza Canal, describes the Canal’s construction. It was created for the opening of a Visitor Center on site, and forms a part of the Center’s permanent display. For the current exhibition it was shifted to the Gallery. The Rabin Visitor Center in Gaza Canal offers a visitors route which includes a virtual tour of the Canal, historical documentation of the digging work, and interviews with the project initiators. The Gaza Canal was created over the course of eight years, during which 61 kilometers were dug by 15,000 Jewish and Arab workers. It began as an American initiative and saw many crises along the way. Over the years, however, it became a symbol of change and improvement, a paragon of a healthier reality, creating a reality of prosperity and tourism, industry and commerce in the “island of Gaza.” Zadok’s chosen tactic employs tools from the field of propaganda, such as interviews and documentary photographs, which constitute the body of documentation indicating that the construction of the Canal was the optimal humanitarian act for implementation of the Israeli fantasy—”to throw all the Arabs into the sea.”

gaza canal ,תעלת עזה from Tamir Zadok on Vimeo.

Buy The Wall – Yoav Weiss

Yoav Weiss’ project comments on the so-called separation wall in Israel. In his statement on the project’s website, Weiss notes that pieces of the Berlin Wall eventually sold for good money, once the structure lost its policing function. According to Weiss the Israeli wall will surely meet a similar fate and parts of it will soon become similarly coveted souvenirs. He thus offers a special deal for early birds who already want to secure their part of the wall.

In the Israeli context, Weiss’ work is an intervention, artistically, socially and politically. Interpretations of this work are always predicated on the fact that the viewer already knows the Israeli wall and the reality it stands for. It should concern us less that individual viewers in Europe or elsewhere might miss the fact that Weiss is speaking tongue-in-cheek. More importantly, even those European viewers who understand this work as an ironic commentary will engage its references to the less familiar Israeli wall through the lens of the more familiar Berlin Wall. As careful viewers will scan his artwork with the aim of understanding the Israeli wall, its implications, and political meaning, they will inevitably do so through the prism of what they know about the Berlin Wall. Weiss’ work will to a large degree have an educational function to those unfamiliar with the history of the Israeli wall.

Yoav Weiss – Buy The Wall

Banksy In Israel

We already featured some works by Banksy here on Art Politica in Graffiti Talks Back – The Works of Banksy which is a fantastic post about Banksy’s graffiti art.

Banksy has been on holiday and he’s taken his spray can with him … to the Palestinian side of Israel’s separation wall. This is how Banksy bombed the West Bank, Enjoy!

Banksy website

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"Massacre in Korea" by Pablo Picasso

The beautiful painting above is “Massacre in Korea”, a 1951 expressionistic painting composed by Pablo Picasso which is seen as a criticism of American intervention in Korean conflict. Alongside with Guernica, The Charnel House (1944-45), War and Peace (1952), and Rape of the Sabine Women (1962–63) this is one of Picasso’s works that he composed to depicts the politics of his time.

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