point d'ironie
Performance in collaboration with participants of GoingUp:Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 2012
Using the motif of the point d'ironie, we worked together with the group GoingUp:Jerusalem, who produce a performative photograph in Jerusalem.
Point d'ironie is based loosely on the action by the Slovak artist Julius Kollers Univerzálny Futurologicky Otáznik, or Futurological Question Mark (UFO) in 1978, forming a question mark with a group of people.
The point dironie is a mirrored question mark. It was invented by the poet Alcanter de Brahm in the end of 19th century, and was used to indicate irony and sarcasm.
The punctuation mark embodies questions in relation to what an appropriate contribution to GoingUp:Jerusalem may be. A contribution and role to this walking project, initiated by artist Guy Briller, within the context of the geopolitical situation in the Middle East may be extremely uncertain, tricky and risky: an adventure with unknown outcomes.
The impossibility or inability of knowing what is an exact or accurate contribution is however marked by one certainty: that all the participants of GoingUp:Jerusalem join in this together.
Using the motif of the point d'ironie, we worked together with the group GoingUp:Jerusalem, who produce a performative photograph in Jerusalem.
Point d'ironie is based loosely on the action by the Slovak artist Julius Kollers Univerzálny Futurologicky Otáznik, or Futurological Question Mark (UFO) in 1978, forming a question mark with a group of people.
The point dironie is a mirrored question mark. It was invented by the poet Alcanter de Brahm in the end of 19th century, and was used to indicate irony and sarcasm.
The punctuation mark embodies questions in relation to what an appropriate contribution to GoingUp:Jerusalem may be. A contribution and role to this walking project, initiated by artist Guy Briller, within the context of the geopolitical situation in the Middle East may be extremely uncertain, tricky and risky: an adventure with unknown outcomes.
The impossibility or inability of knowing what is an exact or accurate contribution is however marked by one certainty: that all the participants of GoingUp:Jerusalem join in this together.
point d'ironie
They co-produced and communicated ideas and speculations on where they, as a group, and the situation they are also implicated in, is heading to. Point d'ironie embodies the decision to address, articulate, and punctuate the uncertainties, doubts and engagement of all those involved in these discussions during the long short critical walk from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and the importance of being in the moment with the many disagreements discussed.
The final outcome is to be distributed as postcards. Perhaps. Or perhaps not.
The final outcome is to be distributed as postcards. Perhaps. Or perhaps not.