Effi Weiss and Amir Borestein have been living and working together since 1998. They have been living in Europe since 2002, for the past ten years in Brussels, where they enjoy the good and the bad of voluntary exile. Besides their joint work, they also edit videos and effects, and hold video workshops for diverse audiences around the world.
During a six-months residency at The Israeli Centre for Digital Art artists Effi & Amir will try to establish the Complete Jessy Cohen Neighbourhood Museum.
The NM is a local museum made by the inhabitants, where the neighbourhood’s heritage – be it ethnical, historical, folkloric, mythical, political, aesthetic – is gathered and exhibited through an artistic process. The NM is an experiment in a collaborative creative process. It takes for granted the relative and subjective nature of knowledge and is interested rather in the re-appropriation of this knowledge through interpretation, positioning and intervention.
The museum will contain exhibits based on a list of words that will be selected together as being significant to the neighbourhood. These exhibits, ready-mades or especially-mades, can be objects, texts, videos, photographs or sounds that will either be collected or created by a core group of inhabitants and together with the rest of the community.
The whole process, from discussion to exhibition through production, will be on display, available to the public and for intervention, at the project’s space.
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