<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">Quoting Dorit:<b><span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>“Invisible Geographies are often at the root of what
enables political amnesia”.<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is it really, numbness, or political amnesia that fuel the
terrain of “Invisible Geographies” within the r[d]eterritorialized “Land of
Israel” in the different Jewish ethnic communities which compose the state of Israel?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Horit Herman Peled<span></span></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Horit Herman Peled<br></div><div>2016-2017, Soho, London<br><br></div><div><a href="http://www.espacemultimediagantner.cg90.net/the-collection/?lang=en" target="_blank">http://www.espacemultimediagantner.cg90.net/the-collection/?lang=en</a><br><div><a href="http://horit.com" target="_blank">horit.com</a><span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br>Yoav Peled & Horit Herman Peled, <i>The Religionization</i> of <i>Israeli Society</i> (Routledge, forthcoming<i>)</i></span></span></font></span></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Dorit Naaman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dorit.naaman@queensu.ca" target="_blank">dorit.naaman@queensu.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you, Dale, for the invitation to participate in this discussion. Invisible Geographies are often at the root of what enables political amnesia. My project “Jerusalem, We Are Here”
<a href="http://www.jerusalemwearehere.com" target="_blank">www.jerusalemwearehere.com</a> is an interactive doc that digitally re-inscribes Palestinians back into the neighborhoods from which they were dispossessed by the 1948 war. Most Jerusalemites know that the best neighborhoods
in Jerusalem were Arab neighborhoods, but hardly anyone thinks about the people who lived in those houses, the Palestinians who lost everything by that war. Similarly, hardly ever do the Anishnabe and Haudenosaune people of Katarokwi, considered in what is
now Kingston, Ontario, Canada, or my other home. The political and historical conditions of erasure are different, of course, but the fact remains that the present dominates our sense of space, and it is not easy to see that which is not materially present
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<p class="MsoNormal">My impetus to make “Jerusalem, We Are Here” was born out of a sense of urgent need to make visible, that which has been erased and obfuscated. Digital media enabled a platform in which we can navigate the Israeli present tense visually
(through google streetview and our own intervention), but are surrounded by a soundscape that is Palestinian and from the 1940s. As we meander virtually down the streets of Jerusalem, we meet participants who collaboratively made short films about their homes.
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<p class="MsoNormal">In a sense I try to de-territorialize (to use Garrett and Frederique’s suggestion) a space, in order to defamiliarize it for Israelis, and invite the Palestinians back, without a need for permits, checkpoints, and intense Israeli scrutiny
and surveillance. But I also hope to ignite a question mark about the spaces we inhabit more generally, a question about what is it that we don’t see, and why?
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