Jerusalem Design Week
The 8th edition of Jerusalem Design Week (JDW) kicks off in less than a month, proposing a comprehensive reflection on the many meanings of East. Bringing together over 200 designers and curators from Israel, China, Japan, Romania, Taiwan, Turkey, India, and Belgium, among others, the event will present over 100 new and existing projects. Directed by Chen Gazit and Ran Wolf, with Anat Safran as artistic director and Tal Erez as chief curator, the programming converges at the Hansen House, Center for Design, Media and Technology, with a parallel program running in other locations in the city.
East
From a city which is in itself a junction between East and West, JDW’s 2019 edition tackles the multilayered theme of East. It does so not by rotating the view eastwards from a western vantage point, nor by looking at its past of cultural exchange and political conflict. In fact, it will not look TO the East, but AT the “East”—as a term, a direction, an absolute point of reference, and the set of relative relationships it generates globally. As future, not folklore. As such, JDW attempts, starting with the preconception and ending with the absolute, to diffuse the term through a series of exhibitions, projects, performances and installations, as well as an intense program of events. Through re-digesting the term, we are faced with the question: what is really seen when facing east, and whose east is it?
For further details visit jdw.co.il
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