Artist's Statement:
Football is incredibly popular in Palestine but the occupation makes it difficult to flourish. The Palestine national team faces restrictions on travel and dozens of its most promising players have been frequently imprisoned, injured, permanently disabled, and killed after attacks and raids by Israeli forces. In 2014 two young national team players Jawhar Nasser and Adam Halabiya were shot repeatedly in the feet and legs near an Israeli checkpoint in occupied Palestine.
Palestinian football stadiums and fields have been bombed by Israeli forces and sections of the separation wall were built down the middle of the pitch at Abu Dis campus of Al-Quds University.
This project reimagines the struggle of Palestinian football through the table football game Subbuteo, with Palestinian players on crutches, wheelchairs and arrested in handcuffs attempting to play on against a rival team of IDF soldiers who oversee the enclosure and the building of Israeli settlements on the pitch.
The diorama will be on display in Berlin from this Friday at an exhibition I'm co-curating called Werbepause - The Art of Subvertising at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. After the show ends in August I intend to bring it back to display in the UK at the Museum of Neoliberalism.
Click here to see the complete game board with players, action, effects, etc.
Darren Cullen
12:38 PM (4 hours ago)
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Hi Dan
Ah thank you, I never did finish this project although I constantly aim to, it's been on the backburner for a while.
Please feel free to add it to the site.
I do have a few other more recent works on Palestine you might also want to add to the collection
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/occupation
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/jcb-x-bds
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/2018/09/25/omar-and-hobbes
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Birth of Palestine
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PPPA
Feb 12, 2023, 2:29 AM (7 days ago)
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Hello Darren,
I am the curator of the Palestine Poster Project Archives and today I came across your panels for "The Birth of Palestine".
I think they are brilliant and I wonder if you have finished the work?
I plan to add the two I found on Reddit to PPPA with full credits to you and your site.
MAD respect!
Dan Walsh/PPPA
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A revolution which does not aim at changing me by changing the relations between people does not interest me; what is more, I doubt whether a revolution which does not affect me enough to transform me is really a revolution at all. The Palestinian revolution has established new kinds of relations which have changed me, and in this sense the Palestinian revolution is my revolution.
Jean Genet
The Palestinians
1973
PPPA
Feb 12, 2023, 2:34 AM (7 days ago)
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PS: One of your works is already up at PPPA:
https://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/visit-breathtaking-gaza
Darren Cullen
Feb 18, 2023, 12:38 PM (1 day ago)
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Hi Dan
Ah thank you, I never did finish this project although I constantly aim to, it's been on the backburner for a while.
Please feel free to add it to the site.
I do have a few other more recent works on Palestine you might also want to add to the collection
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/occupation
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/jcb-x-bds
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/2018/09/25/omar-and-hobbes
Cheers
Darren
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PPPA
Feb 18, 2023, 5:17 PM (22 hours ago)
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Wow! So u did this masterpiece?
https://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/tools-for-that-sighting
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I am adding the Occupation Game right now I could not wait cuz I.FUKKIN.LUV.THIS.WORK.
MAD respect!
Q: What is the date of the game and the exhibit in Germany?
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I really hope u find the time to finish The Birth of Palestine. It rocks!
We will put ALL your work up at PPPA if you like.
in solidarity,
Dan
PPPA
Feb 18, 2023, 5:27 PM (22 hours ago)
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https://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/omar-and-hobbes-meet-the-idf
Date of publication?
I consider everyone my friend who is dangerous with a box of crayons.
Dan
Darren Cullen
9:06 AM (6 hours ago)
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Hey Dan
Thanks, the Occupation work and exhibit was from last year. Omar and Hobbes is from 2018
Btw I was more than a bit surprised to see the below posters as part of the collection!
While I appreciate the explanation here, ultimately I do think it's a mistake to host these images alongside pro-palestinian posters
https://www.palestineposterproject.org/special-collection/antisemitismjudaeophobianazi-propagandaanti-jewish-bias
Particularly because they appear mixed in with no explanatory context in pages like this:
https://www.palestineposterproject.org/wellspring/international-artistsagencies
While I can see a case for an institution making an archive of racist propaganda, these look like they're simply part of the same collection, and someone could easily find one of these through google images and think that you were hosting it uncritically
Hope you understand this is intended as a constructive criticism only :)
All the best!
Thanks
Darren