The Green Line

Jerusalem, Israel, 2004; 17:41 min

In collaboration with Philippe Bellaiche, Rachel Leah Jones, and Julien Devaux

Sometimes doing something poetic can become political and sometimes doing something political can become poetic.

In the summer of 1995 I performed a walk with a leaking can of blue paint in the city of São Paulo. The walk was then read as a poetic gesture of sorts. In June 2004, I re-enacted that same performance with a leaking can of green paint by tracing a line following the portion of the ‘Green Line’ that runs through the municipality of Jerusalem. 58 liters of green paint were used to trace 24 km. Shortly after, a filmed documentation of the walk was presented to a number of people whom I invited to react spontaneously to the action and the circumstances within which it was performed.

Click on name to see the video and the interview

Rima Hamami Jerusalem – Anthropologist  Albert Agazarian Jerusalem – Historian Yael Dayan Tel Aviv – Member of Knesset Jean Fisher London – Art Historian Ruben Aberjil Jerusalem – Activist Amira Hass Ramallah – Journalist Nazmi Jobeh Jerusalem – Architect Eyal Sivan Tel Aviv and Paris – Filmmaker Yael Lerer Tel Aviv – Publisher Eyal Weizman Tel Aviv and London – Architect Michel Warschawski Jerusalem – Activist

 

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