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Maximum Spaces

This project is now supported and it’s starting soon in Stockholm: FREE source of rehearsal spaces & Non-curatorial spaces for performing to all artists. May all artist be free, producing what ever and how ever we need to do that!!!!!

What is it?
Maximum Spaces is a platform for creating a non-curatorial space, and a tracking of free spaces in the city of Stockholm, available for any professional artists in Performing arts, dance and theatre. It is a self-organized system of booking spaces made through a digital MAP and Aps that offers available spaces to be booked by professional artists for rehearsals and performance without any cost, to allow the inclusion of the majority of artists within dance, performing arts and theatre, without the control of values imposed by today’s existing system of art production. In the future the project will expand to other art disciplines and other spaces.

The project also aims to increase the value of all urban spaces, by increase the users, and in this way to revitalize the “Urban Common”, the “common” in the sense of the site being defined by the people using it, without the quality matrix, the citizens rights to the urban space. How to maximize the tax we pay invested in culture, or in the infrastructure of the city, when most spaces are only in use 45-60 %? And, since the funding organisms today are demanding the independent theatres to incorporate the independent groups, this project could help by being a sort of coordinator or implementer of these objective, but functioning from a grass-root initiative, a self-organized system, by its users within the category of artists without or very small funding support.

From now on, please send an email if you know of spaces that could enter this system: saragebran@yahoo.com

Spring tour 2012: How to get the water into the tire?

• 100° festival, Sophiensaele/Berlin, 26. February at 17:00
• IETM Copenhagen the 29th of March, at Overgaden art space. A share night of 6 artists called Quadraphonic and now Multiphonic, time: 17:30-20:30 (Quadraphonic)
• End of May, SITE studio/Stockholm (check wwww.public-e.dk)

Using Remix and VDJ techniques the performance addresses the problematics of the desires of control and participation. 20 movement phrases of 2 minutes each is given to Sara by 20 artists, choreographers, producers, doctor, photographers, actors, etc, from different countries. This phrases are inspired from 5 photographs, each of the artist received from another project called “Vertical Gardening’10”, created together with a number of colleagues in the refugee camp of Jalazoun in the West Bank/Palestine. A total of 100 photographs is shown to the audience, in a passage between medias: from text, to images, to movements.

Concept & performance: Sara Gebran. Choreographies by the 20 guests: Hildegard de Vuyst (Dramaturg KVS, Be), David Zambrano, (Choreographer, performer, teacher, Be/Vz), Mette Edvardsen (Performing artist, Be/No), Yukiko Shinozaki (Choreographer, performer, Be/Jp), Célia Fechas (Actress, Be/Pt), Anna Koch (Choreographer/director of Weld, Se), Tor lindstrand (Architect, Se), Kajsa Sandström (Choreographer/dancer, Se), Vera Nevanlinna (Choreographer, performer, Artistic director of Zodiak, Fi), Manuel Perez (Dancer, Be/Vz), Meike Shalk (Architect, De/Se), Yazan Khlaili (Photographer/architect, Pl), Astrud Angarita (Dancer, Vz) , Juan Pedero Fabra (Visual Artists, Se/De), Anders Mosslim (Actor, Se/Dk), Mathias Kryger (visual artists, Dk), Erik Pold (Performing artists, Dk), Lars Persson (Producer of 3r: Väningen, Göterbor, Se), Tara Motazedkivani (Dancer, Se), Sara & Celine Hage (Landscape architect & Glass designer, Lb). Dramaturgy: Anders Paulin. 100 Photographs: Anders Paulin, Ylva Henrikson, Sara Gebran & the children from Jalazoun Refugee camp. Supported by: Kunststyrelsen (Danish Art Council) and Kulturrådet (Swedish Art Council). Residencies at: SITE office and Dansens Hus in Stockholm. Another 20 artists would be included in the second part of this project. Check out this site after the summer…!!!

Vertical Gardening/The Carpet

Sept-Oct. 2011

5 weeks in the West Bank preparing our 10 days festival in the village of Dura Al Kara, 5 minutes from Jalazoun refugee camp, 15 min. from Ramallah and just besides Beit El settlements.

In a valley with good planting soil and a natural water supply, in a site that must be somewhat of a dream in a country defined by constant difficulties of sustainability and water shortage, we are establishing Vertical Gardening – The Carpet: a platform combining the art of leisure time and entertainment with workshops and collective activities. One might ask ”what is quality time in a social art project?” By establishing a space where collective work meets reflection, we aim to investigate the possibility of developing a practical example for the idea of the Commons; a heterotopic space, neither private nor public and thus defined by and given to the individuals using it.

The project is a co-operation between Palestinian and International artists, and is done in collaboration with the communities of Dura Village and Jalazoun Camp. The objective is to create a meeting space, adressing and engaging different parts of today Palestinian society: the village of Dura, the camp of Jalazoun, the city of Ramallah and the university of Birzeit. Together we join forces in a practical work where traditional knowledge meet contemporary practice.

Another objective of the work adresses the proximity of Israeli settlement Beit El. The lack of activity in the valley makes its water resources an obvious target for the settlement By mobilizing the area through activities, the work aims to defy the frequent attempts of appropriation; not with aggression, but by cultivation and production.

Partyisuseful From 5th to 15th October, from 3-9 pm, this hybrid of Living Room and Working Space will be open for anyone interested in Gardening, Collective Cooking and Dinners, Open air movie screenings and Discussions, Dabke contests, Media- and Video workshops, Green House construction, Concerts, Land Art workshops,, Compost techniques and Ping Pong tournaments, and Art Installations. Join us for a 1 hour-visit, or stay for the whole period.

A project by: Sara Gebran, Anders Paulin, Bashar Hassuneh, Ylva Henrikson, Orabi Nakleh, Khaled Sabbah & Juliana Irene Smith. Produced by Public Eye (www.public-e.dk), in collaboration with The Club Sport and Municipality of Dura Al Kara, Riwaq (Center for Architecture Conservation, the Danish House in Ramallah, the community from Jalazoun and Dura, the volunteers from the University of Birzeit, international volunteers and Bustan Qaraaqa.

Supported by: Nordic Culture Point, Danish Center for Cultural Development (DCCD), Olof Palme Minnesfond, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and The Danish Arts Foundation. Contacts: Bashar Hassuneh 0599428148 bhasuneh@gmail.com, Sara Gebran saragebran@yahoo.com

(Facebook: Vertical Gardening/The Carpet)

Summer 2011

August 14.-21.: Preparation of the Vertical Gardening project in Jalazoun refugee camp, West Bank.

Oct. 2011 - March 2012: preparation of the solo “How do we get the water into the tyre?”

Spring Tour 2011

2-10 May: Vertical Gardening preparation of the project. Jalazoun refugee Camp, West Bank.

15 & 16 April, IETM, Stockholm. Quadraphonic a shared night: Sara Gebran with La Santa Lucha vs Royal Rumble; Anders Paulin & Anders Mossling with ‘Neither Me nor You, ‘Ylva Henrikson & Kajsa Sansdröm with CON:TEXT, Body of an absent Lady Han & Eliisa Erávalo with This is about somebody at Tribunalen Theatre. kl. 20.00-22.00. Website: (Quadraphonic)

17 & 19 February, TPAM, Yokohama/Japan, ‘La Santa Lucha vs Royal Rumble’ & Société - A working space. Preparation of VOODOOM platform A month residency with artists from Scandinavia and Japan researching about the power of Voodoom as a model to help imagining new realities

12 February, Roxy Theatre Basel, La Santa Lucha vs Royal Rumble

28 January, Danssämesse, Stockholm with an excerpt of VOODOOM: waking the Model

Trailer: (La Santa Lucha vs Royal Rumble)
Full performance:: (La Santa Lucha vs Royal Rumble)
Trailer: (VOODOOM: Waking the Model)

Projects 2010

Interactive World Map Exhibitions

in the foyer of Dansens Hus, Stockholm during ICE HOT by Sara Gebran. Here there was an Artist Mesa: where she opens up her table to present the works of several artists from the world (1-6 Dec.)

Vertical Gardening’10

Refugee camp of Jalazoun / West Bank.

The second part of the project Vertical Exile-West Bank is developing into a community garden called Vertical Gardening. The first gardening project took place in the refugee camp of Jalazoun in the West Bank, 26 of September to 26 of October 2010.

(Facebook Vertical Gardening’10l)

After the creative and inspiring process we had with the community of Jalazoun refugee camp in April 2009 in Vertical Exile, we return with a new project: Vertical Gardening.

Vertical Gardening is a way to take advantage from the space, to plant on the roofs, windows and walls of the refugee camp, with the objective of embellishing the camp and possible making a micro-economy.

We think of the project as a fantasy in reality, with the aim to develop tools and strategies for gardening in vertical spaces. And one of our main objectives is to let different knowledge and experiences meet in a process where the expertise in the camps, who’s citizens to a large extent have to be experts on survival with a minimum of resources, co-operates with ideas and concepts within contemporary architecture and art practices. The project therefore is not defined out of an already existing knowledge that we wish to bring; we prefer to think of the work as a process of mutual teaching and learning that will produce new knowledge on both sides.

Together with the students of architecture of Birzeit University, volunteers from the camp, artists and architects from Palestine and Scandinavia, and the experts in agriculture from Palestine, we devote one month of discussions, research and workshops creating this garden.

A Public Eye project in cooperation with Karama Center, Riwaq, Qatan Foundation, Agricultural Relief, Professor Munir Fasheh, Ali Hassuneh, Saed Dagher, Samar Al Nazer, Yazid Anani, Khaldon Bshara, Fida Touma, Women Center & Popular Committee from Jalazoun, Palestinian Circus, Anders Paulin, Sara Gebran, Ylva Henrikson, Ulrika Zeuthen, Khaled Nakhlah, Khaled Sabbah, Fayez Khalili, Yhya Awaad, Mahmood Zuher, Sameera Malaka, Haneen Nakhleh, Hareth ilayan, Musaa’b Nakhleh, Bilal Sami, Isra’ Matar, Mohammad Safi, Mohammad Yahya, Mohammad Abo Okka, Moshera, Yosra Nakhleh, Manal Dabor, Sami, Jiahia, Amani, Orabi Nakhleh, Bashar Hassuneh as coordinator, the 16 students of architecture from University of Birzeit as: Anwar Jarb, Diala Isib, Faiq Mari, Hiba Burkan, Iyad Zammo, Sara Khasib, Iman T, Mohammaed A.rub, Lama Shama,. Marwa, Muhammed Hanabi, Mohammaed Qattoush, Omar Shanti,,Ramzi Hazboun, Hafez Omar, as coach Nura Khalili, the children and other people from the community of Jalazoun.

Support: Swedish Institute, Dramatiska Institutet/SIDA, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Danish Art Council & Copenhagen International Theatre.

Vertical Exile- Stockholm/Botkyrka’10

5 months project from January to June 2010 with following activities:

VOODOOM: Waking the Model - Performance end of the project.

at Dansens Hus – lilla scenen, 2, 3, 4 June, Stockholm

“It feels a bit like being on technical-Ethnography, and Modern Dance Museum at the same time… So if voodoom power is as strong as proponents argue that religion is, after yesterday’s audience this evening, both rigorous, stimulating and multi interesting ritual will get all their wishes fulfilled” Cecilia Djuberg, nummer.se (03.06.2010)

Trailer: (VOODOOM: Waking the Model)

Sound track Martin Vognsen: (VOODOOM: Waking the Model)

In “VOODOOM: Waiking the model” we are lifting away the spells off Stockholm and Botkyrka with models of architecture and Voodoom, to help us in the visioning and imagining the possible and impossible, the utopia. Using multi-dimensions - dance, models, wizardry live music, live projections, installations of “shrines” and ritualistic acts - we invocate the super-natural powers of the spirits, to assist us in the production of new knowledge, places, people and relationships. “Come then, let us create a city in theory from its beginnings.” - Plato

Directed by Choreographer/dance