LIVE! from DEAD SEA - Jordan

The Dead Sea   /Persyn&Nasser 2011

The Dead Sea is in danger!  The water level of this precious nature-phenomena drops over 1 meter a year.  The lake's main tributary -The River Jordan- is drying up.

During the Arab spring, Lana Nasser & I started creating "LIVE! from DEAD SEA"; an artistic awareness campaign about the lake's eco-disaster.  Our collaboration is a Theatre and Photographic project, based on research about the Dead Sea's cultural importance and the ecological impact of its decline. A poetical protest against harming our Earth.

In times of big global changes; we envision natures revolt in the uprising of new Mythological characters, Icons & Goddesses.  This is an imagination we photographed.     'The dead sea is the womb of this planet, its drought symbolises a global state': on the stage of Al-Balad theatre in Amman we were giving voice to Nature's outcry, by projecting the photographs with related stories.  

Dried up Dead Sea 

Mozes

Landscape

Sinking In

Salt wrapped stones

The Birth of a Stone

Jordan Valley Tree

Holy Sidr Spirit

Salt, Water & Stones

Dead Sea's Awakening

Reportage about the performance by Maggie Kabariti.

For a reportage on Aramram-TV click here to their website.

Copyrights on all images above (Jordan/2011)

LANA NASSER -pARTner

Lana Nasser   /Persyn&Nasser 2011

Spring 2011 kicked off the collaboration with Lana Nasser.  She's a multidisciplinary performing artist, director, storyteller & published writer based in Jordan- with whom I initiated an artistic campaign about the decay of the Dead Sea and the dehydration of the River Jordan.

I am honoured to be involved in the international tour of her one-person play In the Lost & Found in which she questions her identity as woman in an Arab- and Moslim culture, a critical statement on identity in general.  

Check Lana Nasser's website HERE

Formulating Fundaments (...an attempt)

- Art is Activism -

- Visualizing, not conceptualizing -

- Thinking globally, acting locally -

- Everything starts with a Dream -

- Remaining optismism, cultivating possibilities -

- In reality seeking its sur-realism -
-United we stand, devided we fall -
- With our Mind we make the World -
-Why does the Planet has no flag?-
-Now is our time-
-Life time is (un)limited-

- ... -

A composite of archival Hubble data taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys. Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble caught this glimpse of stars in the globular cluster M13. The cluster is home to over 100,000 stars, packed closely together in a ball approximately 150 light-years across, and is located at a distance of 25,000 light-years. Source




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