Friday 9 November 2012
and then it was November!
Oh my on my! I last posted here in August?! Wow! More bubbles of time blown by!
Well over on the ARC home page www.artsresidencycairo.blogspot.com you can of course keep up to date with course and residents much more but somehow I must have come to forget the more personal diary part here - or to be more accurate been as ever so busy and writing so many varied things that this page got neglected. Poor page! ;)
Well things are changing, things have changed. Yes, all remains with a strong schedule of courses, workshops and events and residents staying at ARC but the country is in a mess, as most of you will know, and life here feels more overwhelming sometimes. Two of the big issues are that I miss nature and civil liberties. Nature I might miss in any big city, though in many cities they have cultivated parks and areas one can go to - in Cairo there are a few small parks which due to the lack of civil liberties one cannot enjoy anyway, ie as a woman it is not easy or comfortable to go for a 'walk' and take a stroll in the park. In fact this would never happen. Other than no park sitting, I am also tired of the general street hassle, although I myself have not been badly harassed it is is just the fact that the street is 'owned' by the street people who are mainly men and walking leaves one open to constant remarks, and I mean constant. Even if the men think they are being 'flattering' it is still an invasion into one's walk. As well as this my beau broke up with me very recently and so now I find myself in a period of re-evaluation about what I want to do here and how long I want to stay. So... (!).. the ideas I have right now are to stay for some time more (as I am involved with so many good things and have courses scheduled etc etc) but I am now putting out my feelers for contacts in Paris, Rome and Berlin with the idea to either take some months away from Cairo and then return or to move. *I will be posting another post above this one with that Paris, Berlin, Rome idea explained more.
For now let me tell you about how Lia is on her last day here in Cairo and what a lovely resident she has been! Although, I have hardly seen her as she has been so busy with the W Ü S T E N project with her colleagues Nela Adams, Marcel Saegesser and Anna Schoels. Lia's work was to video document and take photographs of the project and these will be uploaded soon to the W Ü S T E N page: https://www.facebook.com/wuestenproject
Here are just some snaps from their work:
Well over on the ARC home page www.artsresidencycairo.blogspot.com you can of course keep up to date with course and residents much more but somehow I must have come to forget the more personal diary part here - or to be more accurate been as ever so busy and writing so many varied things that this page got neglected. Poor page! ;)
Well things are changing, things have changed. Yes, all remains with a strong schedule of courses, workshops and events and residents staying at ARC but the country is in a mess, as most of you will know, and life here feels more overwhelming sometimes. Two of the big issues are that I miss nature and civil liberties. Nature I might miss in any big city, though in many cities they have cultivated parks and areas one can go to - in Cairo there are a few small parks which due to the lack of civil liberties one cannot enjoy anyway, ie as a woman it is not easy or comfortable to go for a 'walk' and take a stroll in the park. In fact this would never happen. Other than no park sitting, I am also tired of the general street hassle, although I myself have not been badly harassed it is is just the fact that the street is 'owned' by the street people who are mainly men and walking leaves one open to constant remarks, and I mean constant. Even if the men think they are being 'flattering' it is still an invasion into one's walk. As well as this my beau broke up with me very recently and so now I find myself in a period of re-evaluation about what I want to do here and how long I want to stay. So... (!).. the ideas I have right now are to stay for some time more (as I am involved with so many good things and have courses scheduled etc etc) but I am now putting out my feelers for contacts in Paris, Rome and Berlin with the idea to either take some months away from Cairo and then return or to move. *I will be posting another post above this one with that Paris, Berlin, Rome idea explained more.
For now let me tell you about how Lia is on her last day here in Cairo and what a lovely resident she has been! Although, I have hardly seen her as she has been so busy with the W Ü S T E N project with her colleagues Nela Adams, Marcel Saegesser and Anna Schoels. Lia's work was to video document and take photographs of the project and these will be uploaded soon to the W Ü S T E N page: https://www.facebook.com/wuestenproject
Here are just some snaps from their work:
in the White Desert
Saleh Mohamed Mohamed in the performance at Darb 1718
some of the audience at the performance at Darb 1718
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