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• "in the heart of the heart of another country"* is a collaborative project between contemporary art and socio-political issues, organised by AIN, Mansion and TWIXTlab.
• the project aims to open up multiple discussions about the situation in Syria and the political and socio-economic crisis in both Greece and Lebanon. As well to prompt interactions between the ways people resist in each region. Moreover, a significant factor is the presence of displaced people, the so-called migrants or refugees, and their cultural influence on artistic and activist practices in these three countries.
• the programme includes screenings, discussions, socio-political debates and artist talks.
• artists, activists and researchers from Greece, Lebanon and Syria or based in these countries will share and exchange thoughts, methods and skills to analyze, intervene and create new perspectives within the radical current socio-political transformations the three countries are experiencing. Ideally, the programme will be the first step towards a long-term collaborative platform.
• Mansion is a multi-purpose collective house located in Beirut’s Zoqaq al-Blat and inhabited by artists, researchers and activists. Its main principle is to claim the rights to the city.
• TWIXTlab is a project based in Athens, founded by anthropologists and artists. It brings together contemporary arts and humanities as "tools" to understand and intervene in everyday life a period of vast socio-political transitions.
* The title was borrowed from Etel Adnan’s poetry book of the same title, published in 2005. Adnan is an accomplished Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist, whose work has never shied away from facing up to the tragedies of modern history. Born in 1925, Adnan was raised in Beirut; her mother was Greek from Smyrna and her father Syrian from Damascus. She spends her time between Paris, Beirut and California.
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• the project aims to open up multiple discussions about the situation in Syria and the political and socio-economic crisis in both Greece and Lebanon. As well to prompt interactions between the ways people resist in each region. Moreover, a significant factor is the presence of displaced people, the so-called migrants or refugees, and their cultural influence on artistic and activist practices in these three countries.
• the programme includes screenings, discussions, socio-political debates and artist talks.
• artists, activists and researchers from Greece, Lebanon and Syria or based in these countries will share and exchange thoughts, methods and skills to analyze, intervene and create new perspectives within the radical current socio-political transformations the three countries are experiencing. Ideally, the programme will be the first step towards a long-term collaborative platform.
• Mansion is a multi-purpose collective house located in Beirut’s Zoqaq al-Blat and inhabited by artists, researchers and activists. Its main principle is to claim the rights to the city.
• TWIXTlab is a project based in Athens, founded by anthropologists and artists. It brings together contemporary arts and humanities as "tools" to understand and intervene in everyday life a period of vast socio-political transitions.
* The title was borrowed from Etel Adnan’s poetry book of the same title, published in 2005. Adnan is an accomplished Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist, whose work has never shied away from facing up to the tragedies of modern history. Born in 1925, Adnan was raised in Beirut; her mother was Greek from Smyrna and her father Syrian from Damascus. She spends her time between Paris, Beirut and California.
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