Utopias and innovations

Each city has chosen to illustrate "Utopias and innovation" through a theme that matches their identity, past and future. It is available through various events that you find on http://www.utopinov.fr
The successive inaugurations throughout the year 2010 as an invitation to walk along the Rhine-Rhone, discovery of iscovery.

Urban outdoor exposure,

Projected on a screen of water Besançon

Recently, the City of Besançon I ordered a set for Hebrew calligraphy exhibition in city's main thoroughfare of the city center, along with a projection screen of water.
The work I did for the City of Besançon is part of a series of cultural events organized by the cities of the Rhine-Rhone Metropolis network. Utopias on the topic and innovation: inventing society, peace is a beautiful utopia to Besançon, which has a policy of cooperation in Israel and Palestine.
The theme of water (Maim), source of life yet tears the Middle East and between men, calligraphy represent the first verses of Genesis (Bereshit) and the different stages of the creation of the universe: heaven (שמים, shamayim) and earth (הארץ, Haaretz), the waters above and waters below (מים, mayim).

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Program

- Projection screen works on water
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 18h; Flying Bridge - Besançon
- Exhibition outdoors:
January 28 to February 28, 2010, Grande Rue - Besançon

Israel-Palestine: Peace as an utopia

With his school, its houses, shops where you can find anything at any time, Aqabat Jabr looks like an ordinary small town in the Middle East. Yet it is one of 58 Palestinian refugee camps officially registered with UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for management since 1948. Located in the West Bank close to Jericho, near the Dead Sea, Aqabat Jabr now 5600 people, administered by fifteen elected members and volunteers of the People's Committee.
As throughout the Mediterranean, the critical issue is access to water. Rainfall is scarce, evaporation is high and the water deficit is permanent. In addition to these geographical constraints consequences of the Israeli-Arab unannounced cuts and restrictions.

Following a first mission in late 2004, it is without hesitation that the City of Besançon has chosen to focus its cooperation on the renovation of the water system and sanitation Aqabat Jabr camp, with a genuine development program. Car repair infrastructure is not enough. We must also know how to manage the resource and not waste it. In addition to work on the network, work training and education is conducted to make people aware that the monitoring of consumption, identifying leaks and a few simple steps can save a lot of that water so rare and subject of so many issues in the region. Renewing a water and sanitation, these are construction equipment, trenches, pipes, concrete, everyday, for the time being. No neighbors, no complicity with the utopias.

Yet the more we advance in technical work, the more we try to understand the complicated path that takes the water to flow from its source into the houses, we are more deeply immersed in the heart of the history of each other . For the Palestinian, the Nakba is the great disaster that expelled from their land, for the Israeli is the Holocaust and the return to the Promised Land. A story seemingly irreconcilable and yet so closely intertwined that only the right of everyone to live in peace can give it meaning.

Two artists tell this story by telling us about the water in their own way. Michel d'Anastasio wrote the water: the Hebrew letter calligraphy, free form, questioning its symbols and its roots. Lin Delpierre picture life without water: the houses in the Palestinian camp, cement walls, the air saturated with heat and dust and dry soil, if dry. Of this research comes a work in four hands into the history of each other with hope, who knows, peace be on a day other than a utopia.

For more information

On my site of Hebrew calligraphy

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