Part of the body of work, "Within this Narrow Strip of Land". In Assemblage, archive footage from the British Mandate period in Palestine shows the raising of a British observation balloon, a metaphor
conjuring up both release from the landand the mapping of it in the establishment of territory through the
process of reconnaissance, or surveillance. The archive footage has been overlaid with a montage of sounds
from religious orders. At times the sounds seem to almost imitate or respond to each other, confusing identities, whilst also transforming the kite balloon from war machine to aprophetic apparatus of the sublime
The CDA's archives are operating with the support of the Ostrovsky Family Fund and Artis
