A Question of Distance

This multi-media work explores questions of intersubjective identification and belonging in a region of conflict. Building upon recorded conversations with diverse inhabitants of Israel/Palestine conducted in parallel with the making of landscape photographs, the work proposes a role for the ‘listening stranger’.

A live performative reading event with slide projection moves between first and second person subject positions, putting into question the identity of who is speaking and the place from which they speak. A key theme of this work is the composition of the research material into a variety of media, responding to the different cultural, linguistic and architectural contexts of reception of the work.

Exhibition tour to:

Kibbutz Gallery Tel Aviv; The Artists House Jerusalem; Um Al Fahem Gallery, Um Al Fahem; University of the Negev, Beersheva; Givat Chaviva Gallery, Givat Chaviva Peace Centre, Israel June 2003

Waygood Gallery Newcastle upon Tyne 2004

The International Centre Bethlehem, Palestine 2005

‘Strangers to Ourselves’ Metropole Galleries Folkestone 2003

‘A Space to Imagine A Question of Distance’ The Room London (with Hagit Bar Fleming) June 2006

Conferences:

‘The Possibility of Seeing: The Artist, Photography and the Representation of Conflict’ conference and performance Chapter Arts Centre 2003

‘A Question of Distance’ paper at Periphery and Policy International Conference organized by Royal Anthropological Institute, Cornwall County Council and College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth 21 -22 April 2006

‘A Question of Distance’ paper at ‘Globalisation and Representation’ 3rd International Conference on Globalisation and Resistance, University of Brighton, 12- 13 March 2005

Publications and Reviews:

‘A Question of Distance’ Waygood Gallery 2004 ISBN 0 9538284 1 7

A Question of Distance in ‘What Remains To Be Seen’ Art and Political Conflict, Views from Britain, Israel, Palestine and Northern Ireland’ pub. Multiexposure 2004

Artists pages with essay by Susan Butler ‘A Telling Retold’ , Portfolio issue 45 2007

‘The Company of a Stranger’- On Susan Trangmar’s ‘A Question of Distance’ Cate Elwes, filmwaves issue 27 1/2005

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