Makan’s voyage and transformation until February 2010
October 4, 2009
Makan is going on a voyage of adventure and discovery; meanwhile the physical space will become a lab that explores notions and meanings of space through the transformation in function over a period of several months. Two artists have proposed projects exploring the potential of the space.
Daydreaming at 5:48 PM
Toleen Touq, October until December 2009
The project will transform Makan into a neighbourhood sound transmitter. A soundscape (a.k.a. memories) of Jabal Al Weibdeh will be collected and created through extensive sound recordings. At regular intervals Makan's balcony will be used to broadcast re-mixed samples of these recordings and other materials as interventions to the soundscape. These fragmented stories together form an invisible narrative that is traceable over a timeline of several months.
Toleen Touq is a multi-media installation artist based in Amman. Her work investigates notions of identity, belonging and (im)-mobility and often tends to expose surreal environments by reinterpreting public and private spaces. Since 2007, Toleen has been involved in several independent cultural and social initiatives as a cultural operator and has participated in residencies and workshops in Jordan, Egypt and the UK.
The Park
Saba Innab, January-February 2010
The project investigates the concept of the public space transforming the physical art space of Makan into a public park, in a city where a high way or a roundabout is the public park. Can elements that already exist in city scenery create platforms for public empowerment? What are the politics of the public sphere? This attempt places a new user in a changed context, an investigation of the prepackaged ideas of what is public.
Saba Innab acquired a bachelor’s degree in Architecture- Jordan University of Science and Technology- 2004; she currently works as a freelance architect and is a practicing visual artist in Amman. In her work she attempts at understanding space as a social product, an ongoing research manifested in narrative forms, maps, illustrations, paintings and installations. Saba has taken part in local and international exhibitions, artist residencies and workshops.
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The recordings are sounds of nature, mechanical objects, street life, and sometimes overheard conversations in Jabal Al Weibdeh. They are invicta watches also sounds from Damascene cafes and sounds of spiritual processions sent from across the Atlantic. Together with other citizen watches musical or abstract sound interludes, they interweave to carry the settings and characters of the narrative.The project ” Daydreaming at 4:48pm ” is a part of “Makan’s Voyage and transformation until February 2010, where gucci watches the physical space becomes a lab that explores notions and meanings of space through the transformation in function over a period of several months.
is a project that uses
is a project that uses collected sounds to narrate a story. The personal soundscapes, an almost coincidental archive, become the inspiration for surreal scenarios that mix the present with guess watches ‘wishful thinking’.
The recordings are sounds of nature, mechanical objects, street life, and sometimes overheard conversations in Jabal Al Weibdeh. They are invicta watches also sounds from Damascene cafes and sounds of spiritual processions sent from across the Atlantic. Together with other citizen watches musical or abstract sound interludes, they interweave to carry the settings and characters of the narrative.The project ” Daydreaming at 4:48pm ” is a part of “Makan’s Voyage and transformation until February 2010, where gucci watches the physical space becomes a lab that explores notions and meanings of space through the transformation in function over a period of several months.
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