Our homage to the project Making neighbourhood, with all our gratitude to the 15 artists and the people who gave their time to collaborate and make it possible. Thank you for these creative journeys that gave us the most wonderful moments and experiences. Making neighbourhood has the support of Barcelona Acció Intercultural:
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Isidor Fernandez, Making neighbourhood_5
He began his artistic career with video art and photography at the beginning of the 90s, exploring other disciplines such as painting, sculpture and performance. In 2004 and the beginning of the degree in Social Anthropology, his interest turns to the social documentary formats, approaching ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology in its various variations (participatory...
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Making Neighbourhood_5 exhibition
From the 13th of December to the 12th of January 2018. Sala d'exposicions del Districte de Gràcia. Plaça de la Vila, 2. Mornings from Monday to Friday 8h30 - 14h30 Thursdays until 20h30 Wednesday the 13th at 18h30. Meeting with the artists-inauguration. Foto: Elif Gülen During four weeks you can...
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Michele King_Mobility Lab Barcelona
Michele King. Selected artist for Making neighbourhood_5_Mobilites Originally from the field of urban planning, Michele King began her visual art practice as a painter in the late 1990’s. Her work now spans mixed media, digital materials and participatory field studies with a sensibility towards relationships between people and their environment. Her process enters into a...
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Elif Gülen starts her project about the memory and the city
Elif Gülen, selected artist for the 5th edition of Making neighbourhood project_Mobilities Elif was born in Baltimore M.D. U.S.A. She moved with her family back to Turkey and lived most of her life in Istanbul. After graduating with a BA in Graphic Design, she traveled the world for a year taking photos in numerous countries...
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Open Workshops Barcelona
Jiwar open studio in Taller Oberts Barcelona 2017 21st and 22nd of October Jiwar participes once again in Barcelona Open Workshops next weekend. The artists in residence Josefina Rozenwasser (musician, Buenos Aires), Elif Gülen (photographer, Istanbul, selected artist for the 5th edition of Making neighborhood project_Mobilities), Behzad Shafagh(design, Teheran) and Mahyar Sadr (photography, Teheran) will show...
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Verdict. Selected artists Making neighbourhood_5_Mobilities.
For the 5th Making neighbourhood_Mobilities we have received 63 applications from 37 different countries. Once again, it has been a very difficult selection process.The richness, the quality and the originality of the formats and approaches obliged us to decided to host a second international artist. We are glad to announce the selection: Selected artists Making...
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An artistic vindication of neighbourhood values
Copy of the article published in Barcelona Metropolis magazine 104 (June 2017) By Mireia Estrada Gelabert, Co-founder and Director of Jiwar Creation and Society An artistic vindication of neighbourhood values Over the last five years, artists from very different cultures have come through the Associació Jiwar – jiwar means “neighbourhood” in Arabic. The association is...
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Open call. Making negibhourhood_5. Mobilities
OPEN CALL FOR TWO ARTISTS, ONE LOCAL + ONE INTERNATIONAL Jiwar is making a call for the selection of two projects which relate to the theme of “Making neighbourhood_5_Mobilities” Deadline for the call: 20th July 2017 at 00h (Barcelona time) Selection anouncement: 25th July 2017 Open to all disciplines Research, creative and production residency at...
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Making Neighborhood 4: Performance Julia Salgueiro
In the framework of ‘Making Neibourhood_4’ Julia Salgueiro, a Brazilian artist currently living in Barcelona, developed her sound and performance project “Realidades superpuestas. Alteriades resonantes”, from which she established a discourse based on games, gazes and contexts by using the texts that were written on pieces of paper she randomly found in the street and...
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