WORKSHOPS

HOW ARE YOU?
Exercises and performances in public space reflecting on identity.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I am looking for ways to express my inner landscape in the outside world. My work is less about what one sees than about the feeling that it leaves behind. My aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography and expanded to photography, video, text, mixed media, and performance art.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Ursula Scherrer is a Swiss artist established in the US. Her aesthetic training began with dance, transitioned to choreography, and expanded to photography, video, text, and mixed media. She is attracted to the ephemeral nature of past experiences as well as to how present times can be interpreted through artistic media.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Sofia (bu), SOFIA UNDERGROUND Performance Art Festival
2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE International Light Art Project
2015 New York (us), ROULETTE
2014 Guangzhou (cn), GUANGZHOU LIVE
2013 Krems (at), KLANGRAUM
Since 1999 worldwide, regular participation in international festivals of visual art, media and light art, mainly in Switzerland, Germany and the United States

DEVELOPEMENT

1983–1988 St. Gallen (ch), THEATERTANZSCHULE

LINK

ursulascherrer.com
@ursulascherrer66

mobile, kinetic light works

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Ingo Wendt’s artistic bearings are light art, architecture, and kinesis. He gets his inspiration from cultural realities, natural and urban landscapes as well as from architecture and historical places. His artworks, which often have a highly playful character, create beautiful atmospheres wherein colors become almost tactile matters. Even though this might not be his main focus, his interventions in public spaces have rarely failed to improve people’s ability to better value the urban and architectural environments they live in.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE
2016 Unna (de), SWITCH c/o Center for International Light Art
2015 Hildesheim (de), LICHTUNGEN
2014 Saarbruecken (de), Light_Act_Project

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2010 Saarbruecken (de), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: Head of Light Lab
2007 Saarbruecken (de), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, Diploma: Fine Arts
2004 Saarbruecken (de), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, Diploma: Product Design
1994 Ludwigshafen (de), Craftmanship as Carpenter

LINK

ingo-wendt.de

1-channel projection of realtime animation

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Amine Ahmed turns medical scans into artistic material.

BIO

Lives and works in Djerba.

LINKS

facebook.com: Amine Ahmed

PHOTO

Amine Ahmed. SEE DJERBA Houmt Souk 2017. Photo: Brahim Gueddich.

Fondouk Bouchaddakh

OUROBOROS
3-channel video projection

ARTIST’S STATEMENT Tom Groll

In my opinion, the positive result and impact of the INTERFERENCE festival in Tunis owed their success to powerful resonance, triggered by impulses of passion and optimism. This resonance managed to move many people and awaken their appreciation for an art form, which was previously unknown to them … a stone being thrown in to the water, the stone symbolising an impulse and the ripples the expanding resonance… I looking forward to SEE DJERBA, on our shared creative thirst, to our thirst for creative community … the driving force”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE

INTERFERENCE was the first public co-operation of Tom Groll and Kuno Seltmann.

LINKS

kuno.ist
tomgroll.de

FEATURED IMAGE

Tom Groll + Kuno Seltmann. SEE DJERBA Houmt Souk 2017. Photos: Kuno Seltmann, Tom Groll, Mari Lena Rapprich

Fondouk Ben Ghorbel

Fondouk Ben Ghorbel was found in the 17th century. Like many other, Fondouk Ben Ghorbel is a historical monument that served as a meeting point for commercial exchange and hosting sellers and traders who would gather from different countries, cultures, and religions in order to sell, buy, and exchange commodities from each other. The place kept its initial shape and still hosts workshops and shops.

PAR HASARD
1-channel video projection, 2-channel audio, computer, individual software

The French title “par hasard” refers to the Arabic term “yasara” for dicing, and is an example of the choice of therm the audio-visual composition is based on which are 15 Arabic and French terms, written and spoken. Both, audio and visual particles are animated to form a real-time environment. They are organized in groups that are linked in responding processes and that generate an endless series of variations in the present tense. The digital interaction is furthered through the application onto the architectural scape.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Eva-Maria Joeressen and Klaus Kessner focus on transmedia interventions. They collect and analyze light and sound, spatial and temporal qualities of a chosen space. Reflecting on the dynamics of appearance and semantics, they contrast their findings with cultural-historical observations and associations. In their artistic research, they engender frameworks for audiovisual compositions and process them as a kind of dynamic archives. Their works are based on audio and visual instructions for a computer. Projected into an architectural environment, they engender a performative interplay of the artistic archive and the found space.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE
2015 Hildesheim (de), LICHTUNGEN
2014 Koblenz (de), Mittelrhein Museum
2010 Essen (de), RUHR.2010 – Opening of European Culture Capital at Zeche Zollverein
2008 Eindhoven (nl), GLOW
2001 Cologne (de), Museum for Applied Art (MAKK)
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DEVELOPMENT Eva-Maria Joeressen

Since 1998 Duesseldorf (de), Peter Behrens School of Arts: Professor of Theory of Perception and Composition
Since 1985 Regular exhibition activity, mainly in Germany
1985 Muenster (de), Art Academy
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DEVELOPMENT Klaus Kessner

Since 1992 | Regular performing activities with electronic audio-visual compositions
Studies in Music, Musicology and German language
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LINKS

joeressenkessner.de
vimeo.com: joeressen+kessner

PHOTOS

joeressen+kessner. SEE DJERBA Houmt Souk 2017. Photos: Constanze Flamme

Paper, fluorescent colors, laser

ARTISTIC APPROACH

In her light installations, Annika Hippler displays light as an ephemeral material as well as a tool for drawing, painting, sculpturing, and creating site-specific artworks. Meticulously combining lasers with water and other mediums, subtle coupling and resonances are developed through reverberations, unveiling matter in its purest form, giving shapes and colors natural poetry. In her luminograms, Annika Hippler records the impact of light on canvas.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Tunis (de), INTERFERENCE
2016 Ludwigshafen (de), Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie, Wilhelm-Hack Museum
2014 Vilnius (lt),  Insanitus Festival
2013 Moscow (ru), Zverev Center of Contemporary Art
2011 Karlsruhe (de), Center for Arts and Media Technologies (ZKM)
2010 Hannover (de), Hannover Art Association
2006 Shanghai (cn), Himalaya Arts Museum
2004 Geneva (ch), Musée d’art contemporain

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2003 Regular exhibition activities, mainly in Europe
2000–2007 Braunschweig (de), University of Fine Arts: Studies in Fine Arts
1998–2000 Berlin (de), University of Fine Arts: Studies in Fine Arts

LINKS

annika-hippler.net
vimeo.com: Annika Hippler

FEATURED IMAGE

Annika Hippler. SEE DJERBA Houmt Souk 2017. Photos: Brahim Gueddich

CAMERA OBSCURA
Building a camera obscura with local materials.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Trained as an architect Martina Tritthart has a particular interest in visual perception and spatial experience. She finished her PHD in architecture on “Light Spaces – Spatial Models of Perception”. As an artist she is using various materials and media focusing on light and space. Her installations want to trigger the imagination of the viewer, who are furthermore invited to become participants of the artwork.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I am curious to SEE Djerba and learn from Djerba, to get closer to the artists community, to talk about the practice of light, the experience of architecture, as well as the construction and history of culture and art.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Vienna (at)
2008 Dachstein (at)
2004 Rohrbach (at)
2001 Graz (at)
1999 Linz (at)
1998 Vienna (at)

DEVELOPMENT

2016 Graz (at), PHD Architecture University of Technology
Since 2003 Graz & Burgenland (at) teaching activities at University of Technology Graz, University of Applied Science FH Joanneum Graz & University of Applied Science FH Burgenland
2003 – 2005 Linz (at), University of Art and Design Linz: Assistant professor for space & design strategies (at)
2001 Vienna (at), together with Roman Bönsch first prize and realization (permanent) lighting design of the facade WUK
1999 – 2003 Graz (at), University of Technology Graz: Assistant professor for Architecture
1996 Graz (at), University of Technology Graz: Degree in Architecture
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LINKS

Martina Tritthart | Web

set of objects, made of glass, soot, fluorescent tube, 1-channel projection

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Mari Lena Rapprich works with text in analog and digital animation to explore transmedia approaches.

EXHIBITIONS

2015 Hildesheim (de), LICHTUNGEN Internationales Licht Kunst Projekt
2015 Tunis (tn) Goethe-Institute, FLUX

DEVELOPMENT

2015 Bremen (de), University of the Arts: Mentoring-Program
2011-2017 Bremen (de), University of the Arts: Degree in Liberal Art

LINKS

klasse-katrinvonmaltzahn.de: Mari Lena Rapprich

PHOTOS

Constanze Flamme, Brahim Gueddich, Mari Lena Rapprich

multi-channel projection of a site-specific collage

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I need to experience the world and communicate with people to create my artworks, that are usually set up in public spaces. My aim is to give way to the places and people that will interfere and communicate and give their own meaning to my art. SEE DJERBA is a project that works perfectly for me – it will give me the unique experience of living and working in a different cultural environment and I will have a chance to contribute my work and art to the local community. I think it is also important to see this project in a complex sociological and political perspective; as an artist from Poland it is important for me to show values essential not only in art but also in life – freedom and tolerance.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Robert Sochacki has been related to painting since his early days as a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, later as a set designer in a theatre and finally as a video performer / interactive artist. Nowadays he is a fellow in the painting department of Gdańsk’s Academy, and he finishes working on his PhD concerning art in public spaces. His projects were supported by polish Ministry of Culture and National Hertiage. He calls his works ”video paintings” and usually presents them as large-format projections. His video arts were showed and awarded multiple times – from independent art galleries, throughout many art shows in Poland and around the World, up to music and street art festivals. His paintings, installations and prints are usually a complex and multi-layered story about the world around.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Hamburg (de), Altonale Festival
2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE
2015 Katowice (pl), Tauron Nowa Muzyka Festival
2014 Warsaw (pl), MiTo
2013 Luedenscheid (de), LICHTROUTEN
2013 Lima (pe), Noche en Blanco Festival
2012 Gdynia (pl), Salon Batycki
2011 Dessau (de), FARBFEST AM BAUHAUS
2010 Gdansk (pl), NARRACJE
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DEVELOPMENT

1991-1997 Gdańsk (pl), Academy of Fine Arts

LINKS

robertsochacki.pl

PHOTOS

Constanze Flamme, Brahim Gueddich, Zied Hadded, Chahine Mahdhi

Site-specific mapping, multi-channel projection, audio-visual composition

ARTISTS’ STATEMENT

We already participated at last years edition of the INTERFERENCE Festival in Tunis and where overwhelmed by the atmosphere and potential of the festival. Through our diverse interests and backgrounds we are always curious and open for international collaborations and influences and hope to help to establish and foster intercultural exchange through the means of art, technology and light.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

We are united by the fascination to use technology to create magic. We combine expertise in the fields of design, animation, programming, sound design and composition and specialize in immersive experiences, interactive installations and light projection shows.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Pforzheim (de), GOLDSTADT250 |
2016 London (uk), LUMEN Prize
2016 Tunis (tn), < INTERFERENCE
2016 Cologne (de), PLATINE FESTIVAL
2016 Girona (es), FIMG |
2016 Frankfurt (de), LUMINALE |
2015 Karlruhe (de), GLOBALE
2015 Montreal (ca), MUTEK_IMG
2015 Goa (in), QUARKS FESTIVAL
2014 Weimar (de), GENIUS LOCI FESTIVAL

LINKS

xenorama.com
facebook.com: Xenorama
vimeo.co: Xenorama

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich, Chahine Mahdhi, Xenorama

RGB
Experimenting with the appearance and disappearance of colors in interaction with colored light.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Beauty, in my eyes, is highly underestimated in the arts nowadays. Beyond, above, or wherever content and messages there is a wide field of joy through beauty that everybody enjoys no matter what age, what cultural background, or what education we have. This uniting power is very often neglected and covered by messages and narrative content. In my work, I try to explore this power connected to the aspects of light. Individual perception is the starting point for my light art works. To have it as pure as possible I try to avoid any narrative content. Aspects of everyday perception become aware of the changes in time and people can enjoy the perception of their own perception.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE 
2015 Hildesheim (de), LICHTUNGEN
2014 Stuttgart (de), SWR Young Classix
2013 Tallinn (ee), Talllinn Light Biennale
2013 Luzern (at), Kunstmuseum
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DEVELOPMENT

1985-1992 Stuttgart (de), State Academy of Fine Arts: Studies of Design

LINKS

theinert-lichtkunst.de
vimdeo.com: Kurt Laurenz Theinert

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich

ARTISTIC APPROACH
RaumZeitPiraten (Tobias Daemgen, Jan Ehlen, Moritz Ellerich) are a space and time bending artists collective. Since 2007 they create site-specific, performative installations as ephemeral models of imperfect mensch-maschine counter worlds questioning calculated realities, scientific accurateness and anorganic, machine dominated behaviour. With custom-built opto-acoustic instruments they are misusing and remixing ancient and up-to-date auditive and visual technologies for heterogeneous, organically improvised light and sound architectures. Their activities are aimed at playful, experimental connections of sound, image, object, space and time to an alternately-self-expanding-multimedia-performance-surround-spaceship-laboratory-travel to somewhere between science and fiction.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Rome (it), Media Art Festival
2017 Krefeld (de), Kaiser Wilhelm Museum
2017 Aberdeen (uk), SPECTRA
2017 Hildesheim (de), LICHTCAMPUS
2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE International Light Art Project
2016 Cascais (pt), LUMINA

LINKS

raumzeitpiraten.com
vimeo.com: RaumZeitPiraten

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich.

Site-specific intervention, green laser, locally found glass object, wind

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I always look forward to exploring a new part of the world. Getting to know the culture and the people through an art project like this, is the most beautiful way to connect with a place and its people. SEE Djerba will bring different people together who are driven by a passion about light, like me. I look forward to two exciting weeks in Djerba!

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Frankfurt/Main (de), LUMINIALE with FLUX Collective
2015 Hildesheim (de), EVILICHTUNGEN
2015 Tunis (tn), FlLUX

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2013 Hildesheim (de), University of Applied Art and Science (HAWK): Studies of Lighting Design

FEATURED IMAGE

Lena Weisner. SEE DJERBA 2017 Houmt Souk. Photo: Brahim Gueddich, Ursula Scherrer, Lena Weisner

Weaving Workshop, named “Hanout Laaouina” Houmt Souk, Djerba.

ARTWORK

DRIFT
Material: 119 Silk threads, red
Light: Line Laser, Class 2, 635nm (red), 4×1,5 V

Seemingly fluent and slowly floating red lines appear in the dark space of an old weaving workshop. A subtle and thinly visible cascade of 119 silk threads in the projection of red laser light interplays with the wind blowing into the building. Relating to each change of wind environment outside of the workshop, the drifting curtain manifests itself and in the next moment disappears hurriedly in the deepness of space. Take a photo, if you want catch the game of red lines! Then, at this moment you will find a true story about the forgotten place, lost tradition, dusted machines, and unopened mails. In one of the oldest existing weaving workshops in Djerba, I reflect on the history of the old tradition of weaving under environmental aspects of modern time. Being for many years closed, I tried to re-organize the point of view on forgotten places and their lost tradition and tried to recall the rich potential of such places in the whole country. The development of the Artwork was of an explorative nature. I found fascinating stories about the island and the people living here. Each story is for me always a process and like a growing story in reality I like to implement such uncontrollable elements as the wind into my works. From this moment on the artwork starts to live its own life.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Light is the biggest mystery I met in my life. So elementary and at the same time so hard to catch. What is it, a phenomenon of light? I try to find a wide understanding of Light as a term and vision, it’s relation to life and human being. Reflecting on the complexity of light I try to express its simplicity in my artworks.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Hildesheim (de), LICHTCAMPUS
2017 Helsinki (fi), LUX HELSINKI
2016 Frankfurt (de), LUMINALE
2015 Tunis (tn), FLUX
2015 Hamburg (de), LICHTCAMPUS
2015 Hildesheim (de), LICHTUNGEN

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2016 Artist and Lighting Designer
2016 Hildesheim (de), University of Applied Art and Science (HAWK): MA Lighting Design
2010 Braunschweig (de), University of the Art: BA Communication Design

ARTIST’S FEEDBACK

As I was asked by Bettina Pelz and Aymen Gharbi to participate in SEE DJERBA project and to create a new work for public space in Djerba, I was excited to have a chance to work in such a multi-layered format. The aim was not only to create a new site-specific Artwork, it was a great opportunity to work with and in context-based environments, such as the cultural and historical heritage of the island or thru our cross-cultural and international group. Within one week and for the first time in Djerba, I had a chance to explore its deeper vision and to light on its spirit, which you may hardly discover with such intensity as an outstanding person. From the first moment on, I felt welcome and belonging to the place, and SEE DJERBA Team and the other artists. Our talk-rounds and discussions on the main topic helped me to reflect on my own practice and explore new ways to understand the subject of light in a wider sense. It was an intensive and inspiring time to look on the island from different shapes. I will never forget its friendly atmosphere by the local community, unique nature, and, especially the colors of the Djerbian sun. I could learn a lot from Djerbian’s rich culture and I liked our open dialog. I think the success of the project has been not made only by good results, but by integrating transcultural processes as well. I think SEE Djerba was a good format for growing up for new processes in the local environment and needs to be sustained for the future development of the island.

FEATURED IMAGE

Liubov Moskvina. SEE DJERBA 2017 Houmt Souk. Photos: Constanze Flamme, Brahim Gueddich, Liubov Moskvina, Sam Saidiani

1-channel projection of a series of photographies of local people with closed eyes

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I met Aymen during a Cross Culture-Workshop by ifa and we connected quickly, on artistic visions for community-engaging projects, with humor and concern – and the love for light(s) and the images it creates. Migrating myself between documentary and conceptual photography, educational workshops, and participatory projects SEE DJERBA poses questions that move me and offer a platform for international exchange but locally rooted driven by the enthusiasm of people who don’t create just events but true encounters. I am happy to travel now to Aymen’s roots to continue the conversations and interactions with a broader community – and not least to SEE DJERBA and the lights of Tunisia.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Berlin (de), TAT, Longing for Landscape – Photography in the Anthropocene
2016 Kuldiga (la), ISSP 2016 Final Exhibition Kuldiga Arts Hal
2015 Berlin (de), Kunstraum Bethanien
2015 Potsdam (de), Kunstraum, “Die Ränder des Dokumentarischen“
2014 Asuncion (py), El Ojo Salvaje Photo Festival

DEVELOPMENT

2017 Beirut (lb), ifa CrossCulture Programme-Scholarship
2007-2008 Amsterdam (nl), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Studies of Art/Photography
2004 Potsdam (de), Visual Communication at University of Applied Sciences

LINKS

www.constanzeflamme.de

Place Sidi Abdelkader

ARTWORK

audio micro-sensor, Arduino board, 6 light bulbs, suspended from a metal structure found onsite

ARTISTIC APPROACH

The responsive intervention asks visitors to “leave your message” which is transcoded into a light play.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The bulbs act as a visual metaphor. This work is based on the misappropriation of our senses, by evoking them, questioning them, and putting them on first. Make the senses the equivalent of a material. The voices and noises are now transformed into code and the luminous noises are simulated. The light evokes not ears but eyes, eyes that touch and hear. This cycle can be defined as a round trip of spectator’s presence, and in this way how the sources of light belong to the artwork and either to the spectator. This installation becomes an “operator of sense“, following an expression of Jacques Aumont. This means that the work is auto-exposing, auto-present, and auto-generating.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Sousse (tn), Elbirou Art Gallery

DEVELOPMENT

2017 Sousse (tn), Institute of Fine Arts: MA
2016 Sousse (tn), Institute of Fine Arts: BA

ARTIST’S FEEDBACK

Djerba was an inspiring place to work in and to question all its historical, abandoned places and corner, and to get in contact with some Djerbian people knowing and learning from them their stories and traditions. SEE DJERBA was a success for all of us, ten days passed away but we kept the wonderful moments, even if we have been through stressful and difficult moments. For me, it was great to work at “Place Sidi Abdelkader” which has been a coffee shop before. I was intrigued by the idea that the place was a place where people used to meet, drink, play cards, and talk. For a while, it has been an abandoned place. It brought the idea to work on “collective memory” to revive this place in a different context. I made a box where people could leave a message. When talking to the box, the lighting of the space started to change. I was excited about people leaving messages about their life, dreams, hopes, and others start to singing, yelling. And this is what interested me the most, the idea about connection, and interaction between people and the artwork.

FEATURED IMAGE

Jihen Ben Chika. SEE DJERBA 2017 Houmt Souk. Photo: Brahim Gueddich

ARTWORK

LUMINOUS VANISHING
1-channel side projection, manipulated historic slides

The starting point for my artwork “Luminous Vanishing” were old slides that I found. These slides were photographed by a German couple traveling to Djerba and Tunis during the 1970s. During my stay in Houmt Souk, I started to modify the picture. physically and irreversible. I wanted to leave traces, erase memories, and look for what might be hidden in the material.

ARTIST STATEMENT

For SEE DJERBA, I was able to participate as an artist. During the week I was free to explore the new surrounding, meeting new people, and starting to work on my own project. The week I had (only the one before the festival) was too short for all the possibilities which were offered (talks, workshops, etc.). My intent was to realize a site-specific work in Djerba that reflects my impressions of exploring a new and unfamiliar space. During my stay I started a new way for me to work with the found photographic material, furthermore, it is my first work with a diascope.

In the past two years, I have had the opportunity to visit Tunisia several times, working there as an artist and exhibiting my artworks. With the exhibition project FLUX at the Goethe-Institute Tunis in 2015, I learned how energetic and positive co-operation with Tunisians can be. My intent was to discover a place with my artistic view, to implement it in my work and to present it in the public space.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Bremen (de), REGARDING: BUNKERS
2017 Brest (fr), DOUBLE BANDE
2017 Bremen (de), DIALOGIC RESEARCH 
2016 Bremen (de), ARTIST AS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS
2015 Hildesheim (de), LICHTUNGEN
2015 Tunis (tn), FLUX

DEVELOPEMENT

Since 2012 Bremen (de), University of the Arts : Studies of Fine Arts
2006 2009 Marburg (de), Apprenticeship as a Photographer

LINKS

sarafoerster.de

FEATURED IMAGE

Sara Foerster. SEE DJERBA 2017 Houmt Souk. Photo: Sara Foerster

ARTISTIC APPROACH
After graduating from the architecture school in 2011, Mariandreina Baasch has been working on different projects that open a space for dialogue in the society. The idea is using art in public spaces to express -freely- the socio-political problems of Venezuela.

DEVELOPMENT
Since 2016 Bremen (de)| University of Arts | Studies of Integrated Design
2005-2011 | Caracas (ve) | Simón Bolívar University | Architecture, BA
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LINKS
Mariandreina Baasch

In the workshop we will make use of the Open Source visual real-time toolkit VVVV. We will build simple spatial structures from paper or other materials and use them as projection surfaces for simple but stunning installations.

REQUIREMENTS

It would be great if the participants can bring a windows laptop and a three-button mouse. No programming experience is needed, but advanced knowledge about computers and digital technology will be very helpful.

DECODING (Djerba 2017)
1-channel architecture projection

The work is based on the text of the new constitution of Tunisia from 2014, which is considered one of the most progressive in the world. The French version of the text is transferred into the computer code “base64” and the visual output was used as a base of the main animation. Occasionally, selected Arabic phrases are included. The color concept responds to the colors red and white as the main colors of the Tunisian flag. The animation treats the text as a living organism.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

For more than twenty years Detlef Hartung and Georg Trenz have been working with architectural interventions with typography. In their spatial projections, they explore the relationship among text, image, public space, light and sensory perception. With their textual projections they have animated buildings such as churches, theaters and galleries. Their facades or interiors appear to be set in constant transformation due to the interaction of the projected content, the architectural structures and the viewers’ position.

ARTISITS’ STATEMENT

Although I can’t be physically in Djerba this year due to a health problem I want to be part of this wonderful project which is in my eyes a great opportunity to continue the efforts which started two years ago in Tunis at the Goethe-Institute and were followed by INTERFERENCE in the Medina of Tunis in 2016. I was really deeply touched by the hospitality and openness of the new colleagues and friends. For us as artists, projected text is a possibility to discover and react to an unknown place. Let’s continue this dialogue by the means of light!

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 Frankfurt (de) | LUMINALE
2015 | Adelaide (au) | BLINC
2014 | Manchester (uk) | Public Space
2013 | Jerusalem (is) | JERUSALEM LIGHT FESTIVAL
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Detlef Hartung | DEVELOPMENT

1985-1991 | Munich (de) | Academy of Fine Arts | Studies in Fine Arts
1979-1984 | Munich (de) | Technical University | Studies in Mechanic Engineering
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Georg Trenz | DEVELOPMENT

1988-1994 | Munich (de) | Academy of Fine Arts | Studies in Fine Arts
1982-1986 | Munich (de) | Academy of Applied Arts | Studies in Graphic Design
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LINKS

hartung-trenz.de

PHOTOS

Brahim Gueddich, Sam Saidiani

WE PROMISE YOU
white textile thread, glue, uv-light

The artwork is made of white threads illuminated by uv-light. The threaded structure is applied to the wooden structure of the former salt storage. From only one perspective the Arabic text can be read, when moving through space, the word is bend and distorted, losing its readability. The message of the installation is addressed to politicians and their demagogic discourses, which, as an anamorphosis, from an angle of view appear clear and promising, but quickly lose all their senses as soon as one turns away. Then by discovering the work, the visitor is invited to look for the location of visibility, to observe the message, and to decipher it.

SITE Mediterranean Cultural Center

The storage building dates back to 1908 and served as a public treasure in Houmt Souk.

ARTISTS’ STATEMENT

The island of Djerba, by its urban and natural landscape, inspires us and allows us to dream. SEE DJERBA is an opening toward new adventures for us, with a serious and qualified team. It’s also a unique moment of exchange and complicity shared between artists, accomplices, coaches, visitors, and future colleagues, in order to take part “perhaps” in the construction of a better world.

We always start our building process from a space and the association it allows, we are guided by our ideas and we build by experiencing the impact of our interventions. Our projects have in common that they address the human body as the storage of experience as well as the collective memory and its shaping. We are interested in the interplay of the individuum and the collective, we reflect on the dynamics of individual and collective identities and their impact on religious and political culture.

ARTISTIC APPROACH

Their passion and commitment is their poetic vector. Houda Ghorbel and Wadi Mhiri are conceptual artists and work transdisciplinary with ceramics, photography, performance, light, installation, and interventions among others. Their concepts are reflecting on societal questions with strong links to sociocultural developments.

ARTIST’S FEEDBACK

We already took part in INTERFERENCE, and it was a great experience. After being asked by Aymen and Bettina to participate in SEE DJERBA, we were excited and immediately started thinking and creating. It was not our first time in Djerba, but the first time to work there, and the first time we find ourselves in this cross-cultural and international group. In the beginning, we felt lost, finding a site was not so easy and our quest took a big part of our stay. We found different inspiring spaces but with a big constraint until we visited the old storage in the Mediterranean Cultural Center and fell in love. It was the perfect space at the right moment. During our stay, we met new people, had deep discussions with different interesting persons, the time spent there was enriching and we made a lot of new friends, networks … The local community was friendly, welcoming and as soon as we arrived we felt home. We loved the atmosphere and ambiance. The shared catering was a great chance for meeting, exchanging, and becoming friends. The good vibes were everywhere. We think that SEE DJERBA was an opportunity to share, enrich, and create in an environment full of positive energy. The community was impressive, the volunteers were very engaged. SEE DJERBA brought light to the island. We hope to see this energy in the future.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Tunis (tn) | ART MATTERS
2016 Ségou (ml) | SEGOU’ART
2016 Tunis (tn) | INTERFERENCE
2016 Marseille (fr) | MuCEM
2016 Tunis (tn) | Musk and Amber Gallery | BARCHA
2016 Marrakech (ma) | Marrakech Biennale

LINKS

houdaghorbelwadimhiri.com
vimeo.com: Houda Ghorbel + Wadi Mhiri

PHOTOS

Ghorbel + Mhiri

LINK
University of Hildesheim

After the inspiring light festival in the Medina of Tunis – “Interference” – in September last year, SEE DJERBA is now the second project of the Tunisian-German collective. Site-specific artworks and light installations will feature selected sites and the special architecture of the island capital Houmt Souk. Inhabitants and tourists can deeply immerse in the so special culture of the island and experience the creativity of an international community. SEE DJERBA is a sustainable art and culture tourism project which promotes the exchange between Tunisian and German artists and thus has the potential to become an annual festival of art on the popular holiday island.

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Tourism Office of Tunisia in Germany

SEE DJERBA CONTRIBUTION
[1] Sustaining traditions and making a living: Arts and Crafts in Tunisia // ART AND HERITAGE Workshop

FOCUS
Leila is creating and supporting soiocultural activities to restore the vibrancy of the medinas’ throughout Tunisia. She is dedicated to an innovative mix of celebrating heritage, socio-entrepreneurial engagement and fostering cultural developments. She is an anchor point for many initiatives and projects that care for sustainable change in contemporary Tunisia.

DEVELOPMENT
Since 2016 Dar El Harka
Since 2015 | Journal de la Medina
Since 2013 | Dar Ben Gacem
Since 2006 | Bluefish
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LINKS
Leila Ben Gacem | Facebook

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Djerba Insolite

This being able to be reached by
the cultural, social and economic promotion of the island,
the protection of its ecology, its urbanistic and architectural specificity traditional.

It proposes :
To promote and encourage all Studies and investigations.
To use all the means of information and diffusion.
To organizes periodic or occasional meetings.
In general to cause and undertake all actions being able to contribute directly or indirectly to the concretization of the objectives of Association

Why ?
Taken action, by Association for the Backup of the island of Djerba incur within the broader framework of the efforts, which tend to promote the island.  Article II of its statutes stipulates that it has the aim of working for the integrated development of the island and this by the backup of its characteristics (represented by Its inheritance) of its socio-economic organization, its landscape and generally of the multiple assets of its past.  Perhaps it would be convenient to recall, in order to raise any ambiguity, which it claims to replace no organization, which it is official or voluntary, having for mission of promoting Djerba.  It hears according to case’s, to take part in the actions under consideration by these organizations, to sensitize them with the noticed insufficiencies, to propose actions to them or to simply to present them suggestions and opinions circonstenciés on specific subjects.  We thus locate our intervention as promotion of the island of Djerba at the same time at the level of the individual or common action, of the sensitizing of the proper authorities and the consulting.

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ASSIDJE

SEE DJERBA CONTRIBUTION
[1] Workshop: Impact of Cultural Policies? Reflecting on German Cultural Policy

FOCUS
The work of Neda Pouryekta is focused on international projects, that are dealing with art, culture, and society. She is especially interested in works, that make possible perceiving life and the world from another perspective.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Festival International Cinema Libre | Hamburg
2012 Out of the Slum | Essen, Marktkirche
2010 Out of the Slum | Essen, Hinterhaus

DEVELOPLMENT
Since 2014 | ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart
2012 -2013 | German Academic Exchange Servie DAAD | Salahaddin University | Erbil (iq)
Until 2011 | Studies of Socioloy and of Oriental and Islamic Studies (Master of Arts) | University Bochum (de) | University of Sana’a in Sana’a (ye)

LINKS
ifa – CrossCulture Plus
Facebook

CCP Plus brings together local actors and their networks to be active in the discourse and processes of social change. The focus is on sharing experience and transferring knowledge with organizations and institutions in Germany. The CrossCulture Plus module is aimed at former CrossCulture Programme (CCP) scholarship holders who have completed their internships abroad and are now keen to set up and run their own projects. Up to 15,000 euros is on offer to committed CCP alumni who would like to set up a project in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Morocco, Iraq, Tunisia. ifa supports alumni in the execution of their projects and provides training for CCP Plus participants once their applications have been approved.

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Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen // CrossCulture Program

As a research Master’s Student in Heritage, I have also a professional Master’s Degree in Hospitality Management and an Applied Management License in Tourism Products. I also take a long leadership experience by working with many associations in Djerba and now i’m the assistant Secretary General of ASSIDJE. By working with international artists, i gain a new understanding of my personal heritage, culture and values. Additionally, I become more independent, self-reliant, and self-confident as I learn to navigate and live comfortably in a different culture. As a result, it’s easier for me to form partnerships and work effectively to tackle global or multinational challenges. But also, develop my professional skills and my leadership experience.

SEE DJERBA TASKS

[1] SEE DJERBA ASSIDJE member

DEVELOPPMENT

Since 2016 Member of ASSIDJE Association
Since 2016 Research Master’s Student in Heritage
2014-2016 Professional Master’s Degree in Hospitality Management
2011-2014 | Applied Management License in Tourism Products
1993 | Born

LINKS

FACEBOOK

SEE DJERBA Contribution
I am interested in the role of the project itself, the function and effects it wants to provide – how is it connected with the local scene/community? What does/can/will SEE DJERBA and its spin-offs represent?

Focus
The focus of Julien Rathjes research is on the productive dimensions of art and aesthetic practices and its critical relation to capitalist mechanisms.

Development
2017: Studies of Philosophy and Art Management (Istanbul)
Since 2016: Kunstraum 53 (Gallery, Hildesheim)
Since 2015: Studies of Intercultural Philosophy and Arts (Hildesheim)
Until 2015: Studies of Social Sciences and Philosophy (Leipzig)

As a student of international cultural policy I am very interested in the influences art can have on society and political thoughts and processes. Coming to Djerba is a special opportunity for me as it is my third chance to be a part of discussions about art and community in Africa. The first project I participated in was in 2016 at the East African Performing Arts Market in Uganda followed by a three-month-internship at the District Six Museum in Cape Town. Both of these experiences have opened my mind to the idea of art as a political tool that can formulate statements about the social structures we live in that are sometimes hard to grasp. I am looking forward to get to know Tunisia and to learn how this country finds itself in its unique position between Europe and Africa.

SEE DJERBA CONTRIBUTION

ART MATTERS Documentary and Evaluation

FOCUS

My work is focused on questions about art as part of political activism, art and culture as a medium to sustain democracy and about the different perceptions and perspectives on art and culture from a european and an african point of view.

DEVELOPMENT

2017: studies of Design, Photography and Film at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria
Since 2015: focus on International Cultural Policy in the context of Bachelor Plus, Hildesheim
Since 2014: Cultural Studies and Aesthetics with focus on Literature and Media, Hildesheim

LINKS

In the newly-born Tunisian cultural scene, SEE DJERBA is considered as one of the most important artistic initiatives undertaken by Tunisian civil society actors (COLLECTIF-CREATIF; Ijou Gdena: a local collective; and several local associations from Djerba). The project has witnessed many challenges: First, the organization of the event, which was based only on volunteer’s work, seemed to be a success. Indeed, we can easily feel the dynamism and the enthusiasm of the team through the activities ran. Then, the international melting-pot spirit was felt through the presence of international artists subtly integrated into the splendid “Houmet Essouk”. They were in regular contact with locals who appreciated sharing with them this unique experience and the hope for the development of cultural activities in Tunisia. Finally, the event seemed to have taken place as the team hoped, offering to visitors the opportunity to live an exceptional moment blending the beauty of Art and Djerba’s medina.

SEE DJERBA TASKS

[1] SEE DJERBA Round Table : Culture of Democracy

FOCUS

Asma is a consultant who advices and coachs national and international NGOs (non-governmental organizations) to implement their social projects and to evaluate their achievements in order to improve their performance. Her expertise is in human resources and project management.

DEVELOPPMENT

2016 – 2017 Training in professional and personal coaching | High school of coaching (certification CNRP 1)
2012 – 2014 | Master 2 Economics and Psychology | La Sorbonne Paris 1 and University Paris Descartes Paris 5 | Paris (Fr)
2008 – 2011 | Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Management | Faculty of Economics and Management | Toulouse (Fr)

LINKS

CV

Having the opportunity to participate in the SEE DJERBA project seems very excitcing to me. As a student of cultural studies and applied arts (university of Hildesheim) I’m highly interested in intersectional artistic, cultural and political discourses. I’m looking forward to meet, discuss, see..!

SEE DJERBA CONTRIBUTION

Together with Henry I’m planning to conduct an interactive project in Djerba about the personal dimensions of light and darkness and how we use these terms as metaphors in order to describe what we see and feel.

FOCUS

Beside university I’m mainly involved in theater and dance (-pedagogical) projects. I’m passionate about taking part and observing the complex processes of opening oneself up and get to know each other through movement. I’m very curious to experience in which way lightart can initiate those kind of processes – how it will impact our minds, the (public) spaces and our interaction.

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2013 degree course “Cultural studies and applied arts” at the University of Hildesheim

2015/16 (within the Erasmus program) “Discipline dell’Arte, della Musica e dello Spettacolo” at the University of Bologna

LINK

I am glad to join the SEE SJERBA Program this year and I am looking forward to connect with enlightening people. Especially the trans-disciplinary convent interests me here. I think light as an additional and fleeting element, the base of visual perception is a great instrument to change (public/ private) space and our interaction with it, without transforming environment in its physical material.
Whats the matter of art in Djerba though, and how can we connect as creative thinking and creating group in a permeabel and long-lasting way?
What light and darkness elements will be experience?

SEE DJERBA CONTRIBUTION
(1) Workshop with Judith Greitemann

FOCUS
I am focused on media & camera (light) and the possibility of the self representation through and by it. I would like to discover different models of self introspection or representation through light, always swinging in between the public and intimate space and our understanding of those terms. Do we have similar bounderies in self representation? What changes do we experience through different persons of surveillance behind the camera? What do you feel, when you are the one who sets the perspective and how can a public projection interact with reality? How does your light projection perform, how is the projection performed by the space and place of the screen?

DEVELOPMENT
I am in the bachelor degree of „cultural science and aesthetic praxis” with the subjects theatre and media at the university of Hildesheim since 2013

Since 2015 I joined the study program “cultural policy in international comparison” in Hildesheim and spent one year in Istanbul for studying and internship.

LINKS

SEE DJERBA CONTRIBUTION
Together with Bernadette I’m planning to conduct an interactive project in Djerba about the personal dimensions of light and darkness and how we use these terms as metaphors in order to describe what we see and feel.

FOCUS
After having spent a semester in Nepal studying Buddhist philosophy and being strongly influenced by it, I explore the meaning, dimensions and effects of impermanence. This includes the ways we construct the world sourrounding us, that which we take for granted, through performing according to cultural, social and linguistic codes. To question the fragility of these alleged constants, and how this contributes to personal development and social changes is the main focus of my work.

DEVELOPMENT
2016 Co-founder of Rigardu, a non-profit registered association, working with refugees on the European continent
Since October 2015 | Studies of Creative Writing at Hildesheim Univesity
2008 – 2012 | Studies of Philosophy at FU Berlin and Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal
2004 – 2008 | Studies of Medicine at Ruhr Universität Bochum and Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

LINKS
Literaturinstitut Hildesheim
Rigardu

SEE DJERBA CONTRIBUTION
[1] Workshop: Djerba online seen from Germany

FOCUS
In this project, I want to focus on the role of social media, the pictures and resultantly the image it creates of Djerba. To see the possibilities and the shifting perspectives it can evoke, highlighting the inter- and transcultural practices. Much like my work at MAVIBLAU, a Turkish-German Magazine for Culture, Arts and Society.

DEVELOPMENT
Since 2015| Studies of Cultural Policy in an international Context at Bilgi University Istanbul
Since 2013| Studies of Arts, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies at University Hildesheim

LINKS
MAVIBLAU

SEE DJERBA CONTRIBUTION
[1]  Wikipedia writing workshop // Impact of festivals on Wikipedia researches // How to write a wikipedia article

FOCUS

DEVELOPMENT

LINKS
Linkedin

VISUAL LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY
A workshop to explore the potential of graphic design.

STATEMENT

What does it mean to create a personal or collective identity? This question is the main topic of my work and is researched and conveyed through different, mostly visual languages and design methods. Through the inclusion of various themes, as well as the incorporation of other disciplines, the approach is always a new one. I am joining the project SEE DJERBA because I am interested to discover on-site forms of interaction between society and space, developing new strategies of identification.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Bremen (de) | University of the Arts, Graduation Exhibition
2016 Hammamet (tn) | Dialogic Reseach
2015 < Tunis (tn) | GOETHE-INSTITUTE, FLUX DEVELOPMENT 2014–2017 Bremen (de) | University of the Arts, MA Integrated Design 2009–2014 | Braunschweig (de) | University of Fine Arts Bachelor of Arts, BA Communication Arts LINKS astridhesse.de

I’m a Computer Science and mobile software engineering student and like everybody knows art is not our strongest area, but being part of SEE DJERBA is a result of several years of working as volunteer in different project and INTERFERENCE was the opportunity to be involved in a project related to Light Art which i found something fascinating. I’ve never been to Djerba, so it’s an opportunity to SEE DJERBA and live the new adventure.

SEE DJERBA TASKS

[1] SEE DJERBA Technical Coordination
[2] SEE DJERBA Artist’s accomplice

DEVELOPPMENT

Since 2016 Project manager at Velox-it
Since 2015 | Computer Science and mobile software engineering student
2015 | Bachelor in Computer Science and Multimedia
1994 | Born

LINKS
LINKEDIN

One day, I was walking in Tunis streets and I met Amin, he told me about INTERFERENCE, and the fact that they want to have the same event in Djerba. I was so happy to hear this, and so excited that I wanted to help with all i can give to SEE DJERBA under light, SEE DJERBA alive again, and finally to SEE my hometown, where i was born and grown up in, happy. I asked Ijou Gdena team to be part of the project as well. and all together we can assure the success of SEE DJERBA.

SEE DJERBA TASKS

[1] SEE DJERBA Ijou Gdena team
[2] SEE DJERBA Artist accomplice

DEVELOPPMENT

Since 2016 Part of Ijou Gdena team
Since 2016 Orthoptics student, SUPSAT university
2015-2016 Biology and Geology student, Science University, Tunis
1997 | Born

LINKS
FACEBOOK

[1] SEE DJERBA Graphic team
[2] SEE DJERBA Technical team
[3] SEE DJERBA Web

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2017 SEE DJERBA Team
Since 2017 INTERFERENCE Curators’ Collective
since 2015 | Product Design Studies

LINKS
Instagrame
Facebook

I’m an architecture student, 23 years old and so excited to work on this project. I can’t wait to meet the artists and the whole community, and to share my ideas and knowledge with them in our beloved island, that I think is the best place and has the best environment to hold these kind of cultural events. Light, shadow, forms and colors are simple defined words but I think that after this project I will “SEE” them otherwise.

SEE DJERBA TASKS

[1] SEE DJERBA communication strategies
[2] SEE DJERBA sites manager
[3] SEE DJERBA Artist’s accomplice

DEVELOPPMENT
Since 2016 Architecture Student
1994 | Born

LINKS
FACEBOOK
INSTAGRAM

I am Ala Barbou , i have 23 years old , an angeneering student in tunisia. I have a passion to my beloved island where we started a compaign to promote alternative tourisme on communal level at firts then on a national level. SEE DJERBA as a cultural event is a great opportunity to share our dreams with other communities from Tunisia so we can help each other and promote our compaign to a much larger level.

SEE DJERBA TASKS

[1] SEE DJERBA communication strategies
[2] SEE DJERBA Graphics
[3] SEE DJERBA Artist’s accomplice

DEVELOPPMENT
Since 2016 community coordinator
1994| Born

LINKS
Linkedin
Facebook

SEE DJERBA TASKS
[1] SEE DJERBA Communication Strategies
[2] SEE DJERBA Graphics
[3] SEE DJERBA Artist’s Accomplice

DEVELOPPMENT
Since 2017 Tunis | ESPRIT, Private High School of Engineering and Technologies
1994 | Djerba | Born

LINKS
Instagram
Facebook

In 2015 I met part of the  INTERFERENCE Team in Hildesheim, Germany.  In February 2017 this encounter continued and I’m very passionate about the reunion in Djerba. I’m looking forward to a place where people from different artistic sectors will come together as well as discuss and experience “Why ART MATTERS” and how art can and does influence the open space. SEE DJERBA creates a meeting point where exchange can happen. I’m very grateful to be part of the team.

SEE DJERBA CONTRIBUTION

ART MATTERS Hildesheim | Coordinator
ART MATTERS Documentary and Evaluation

FOCUS

The focus of Johanna is how to make art accessible and to mediate. She is interested in how to create spaces for people from different backgrounds to actually meet and experience a moment.

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2016 EVI LICHTUNGEN Team, Art Mediator
Since 2016 Part of Internationale Kunstprojekte Hildesheim e.V.
2016 FITUC Workshop Facilitator
Since 2015 | Master of Cultural Mediation, University of Hildesheim
2015 | LICHTUNGEN Team
Since 2013 | Member of the Theatre Collective for children and young people BwieZack

Island Djerba is my home. I wanted to contribute to the cultural scene and now I got the opportunity.

SEE DJERBA for us, is an open island for everybody, when we want to gather different cultural activities. We wanted this project to create a new look for the public in Djerba in terms of its cultural and artistic activity.

SEE DJERBA TASKS

[1] SEE DJERBA Technical Team

FOCUS

The work of Riadh MOADHEN is dedicated to the understanding of the needed technics  to create an artwork.

DEVELOPPMENT

Since 2017 SEE DJERBA Technical Coordinator.
Since 2016 INTERFERENCE Technical Coordinator.
Until 2015 | Mechatronics Studies.

LINKS
CV

SEE DJERBA TASKS

FOCUS
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DEVELOPMENT
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LINKS

Working on SEE DJERBA wasn’t a choice, and that’s for 3 simple reasons:
The first one is that when you get used to work as a volunteer for different projects you realize that by doing a small task in these things you contribute building something big.
The second one is that the INTERFERENCE experience helped me open up on something new that is in the same time so interesting: that is Light-Art.
And the last and most important thing is that after 7 years of not being active in my home-town, SEE DJERBA represents a good opportunity to pay back some of what the island deserves and contribute valorizing it.

SEE DJERBA TASKS

[1] SEE DJERBA Campain

FOCUS
Amin’s main focus has always been around volunteer and NGOs’ work. A passion of which he’s trying to make his profession either through doing assessment for the NGOs, doing some volunteer work in several actions, or studying volunteers’ motivations through his research.

DEVELOPMENT
Since 2017 SEE DJERBA coordination team.
Since January 2017 working as a NGOs’ consultant.
Since 2016 INTERFERENCE coordination team.

LINKS
Facebook

SEE DJERBA CONTRIBUTION
FLUX 6.0 | Artistic contribution| Houmt Souk _ Exhibition _ SEE DJERBA
ART MATTERS Hildesheim | Coordination

DEVELOPMENT
Since 2016 INTERFERENCE Curators’ Collective
2016 Master Degree in Fine Arts – Art Theory

LINK
CV

SEE DJERBA TASKS

[1] SEE DJERBA Web
[2] SEE DJERBA Press

FOCUS

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2016 INTERFERENCE Curators Collective
Since 2015 | interior Design Student
1996 | Born
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LINKS
FACEBOOK

SEE DJERBA TASKS

[1] SEE DJERBA coordination team
[2] SEE DJERBA Campain
[3] SEE DJERBA Web
[4] ART MATTERS Hildesheim
[5] FLUX SERIES

FOCUS
The work of Syrine Siala focuses on understanding the links and interactions between lights and colors, especially in architecture and urbanism.

DEVELOPMENT
Since 2016 SEE DJERBA Coordination Team
Since 2016 INTERFERENCE Curators’ Collective
Until 2016 Architectural Studies
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LINKS
Linkedin
Facebook

Djerba is my home Island where i grew up. For 18 year I wanted to contribute to the cultural scene and now I got the opportunity to design an initiative with my partner Bettina. SEE DJERBA for us is an open space-time when we want to gather different cultural actors and discuss with them about art and it’s important to the context of the island. We wanted also to demonstrate how art matters, therefore we invited international artist to contribute to this frame work and think about a site-specific art-work.

FOCUS

The work of Aymen Gharbi is dedicated to the interplay between architecture Urban research and cultural Heritage.

EXHIBITION

2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE International Light Art Project

DEVELOPMENT

Since 2016 Tunis (tn), Freelance Curator
Until 2015 Tunis (tn), National Institute of Heritage (INP): Architect
Until 2013 Sidi Bou Said (tn), ENAU: Diploma Architectural

LINK

aymengahbri.net

Djerba is home to Aymen, my partner in this initiative. He convinced me to spent time, energy and thought on Djerba – its landscapes and its architecture, its people and its culture. Together we created SEE DJERBA as an open framework to reflect on Djerba as a living enviroment and its future. Located at the intersections of art and its contexts – whether they are social and political, cultural and historical, environmental and economical – we want to pave the way for a new environment for artists, architects, designers, cultural producers, and friends. We want to foster an open space where traditional creative roles are dissolved, where the creative disciplines are challenged, and where new concepts of art-making are shared.

FOCUS

The curatorial work of Bettina Pelz is dedicated to art-in-context projects in urban space, cultural heritage and postindustrial environments, natural heritage and cultivated landscapes.

EXHIBITIONS

2017 Halifax (ca), RESPONSIVE
2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE with Aymen Gharbi
2016 Unna (de), SWITCH
2015 Hildesheim (de), LICHTUNGEN
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DEVELOPMENT

Since 2004 Bremen (de), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: Academic Teacher
Since 1996 Wetter (de), STUDIO BETTINA PELZ: Curator
Until 1988 MÜnster (de), UNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES: Diploma Social Pedagogics
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LINKS

bettinapelz.de
@kunstpelz