Time Suspended - Asselberghs, Herman; Opsomer, Els; Bogaert, Pieter Van
Herman Asselberghs, Els Opsomer, Pieter Van Bogaert
KORTE INHOUD
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.nTime Suspended aims to escape from fixed formatting. It is an artist's 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...
