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On Arab springs and winters of dreaming; Róza El-Hassan debates with Galit Eilat

Róza El-Hassan (b. 1966) is an artist, of Hungarian and Syrian origin, living in Budapest. Manifested in various media (such as sculpture, drawing, performance, collaborative design, public art interventions), her practice touches upon issues of individual responsibility or community belonging, generosity, hybrid or alien identities, and others. One of her recent projects, “No Corruption” (wicker laptop bags – wicker suitcase – wicker camera bags - ancient Romani handcraft and contemporary design project) is the result of a collaboration with a Roma community from Hungary. She participated in numerous exhibitions and projects, including the Periferic Biennale in Iasi, 2008.


Galit Eilat (b. 1965) is an Israeli-born art critic and curator. She is a founding director of the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon and a research curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Her research interests focus on problems of social and political activism within the field of arts, as well as current politics in the Middle East. She curated and co-curated major art exhibitions and projects, among which Politics of Collection, Collection of Politics (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2010), The Real War, solo show with Sean Snyder, (The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, 2010), Liminal Spaces  traveling  seminars (Israel and Palestine, 2006–2008). In collaboration with Sebastian Cichocki from the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, she recently curated Yael Bartana’s exhibition “… and Europe will be stunned” held at the Polish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate is a series of live encounters initiated by Căminul Cultural and coordinated by Manuel Pelmuş and Raluca Voinea.

Căminul Cultural is a nomadic project offering a performative and discursive frame for the artistic and political practices. The project’s artistic direction is provided by the artists Brynjar Bandlien, Farid Fairuz and Manuel Pelmuș. The project is administered by the cultural association Solitude Project in cooperation with Bandlien/Pelmuș.
Main partner: Erste Stiftung. Partners: subRahova, Critic Atac, veioza arte, Rokolectiv.

subRahova is a space dedicated to contemporary arts, a project coordinated by Farid Fairuz and Eduard Gabia and administered by the cultural association Solitude Project.
subRahova can be found in the vicinity of Rahova neighbourhood, on Sergent Nuțu Ion str., no. 2 (the third crossroad from Marriot Hotel towards Rahova neighbourhood, at the crossroad of Mihail Sebastian str. with 13 septembrie Avenue), in the courtyard of RECOM.