Overview
Adania Shibli was asked by the Qattan Foundation and its partners—Welfare Association, the French Consulate in Jerusalem, the Palestinian Ministry of Culture and the Cité Internationale des Arts—to realise a project that would celebrate 10 years of their collaboration through a 6 month residency programme dedicated to Palestinian artists. The result is a project called Dispositions, comprising a bilingual publication (Arabic and French).
Presentation Proposal
Dispositions is an art book project that explores how movement from the artist’s familiar surroundings, or position to other unfamiliar ones—a process named here as ‘dis-positioning’—contributes to forming his or her ‘dispositions,’ in other words, their predominant inclinations and processes of artistic creation. The publication explores this question, discursively and visually, by looking at the experiences and the works of 17 Palestinian artists who participated in the ‘Cité internationale des arts’ residency programme in Paris between the years 1999 and 2009.