Artikelen Foundland

VISUALISING DISPLACEMENT 
Een interview geschreven door curator en schrijver Nat Muller, gepucliceerd in ISCP, New York

Foundland’s Lauren Alexander and Ghalia Elsrakbi talk to Nat Muller
about their new exhibition Escape Routes and Waiting Rooms that
recently opened at ISCP. The last few years Foundland’s practice has
focused primarily on analyzing stories, images and social media that
come our of war-struck Syria. In their current show they investigate
personal narratives of Syrian displacement and migration through
domestic tropes. Foundland are currently the first artists-in-residence at
ISCP supported by Edge of Arabia in partnership with Art Jameel for
artists from the Middle East.
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IN SEARCH OF ARD AL AMAL (THE LAND OF HOPE)
Een artikel geschreven door Foundland, gepubliceerd in Open!, Januari 2014

In 2012, in a small village in the North of Syria called Saraqeb, Mickey Mouse,
Woody Woodpecker, and SpongeBob SquarePants all appeared as wall drawings
in public spaces. Some of these wall drawings depicted Mickey Mouse holding a
sign announcing: “Free Syria”. Photographs of these wall drawings are promoted
on Facebook by the group responsible for the artworks. Well-known characters
like Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, Mowgli from Jungle Boy, Simba from the
Lion King and SpongeBob SquarePants have all been used within the context of
Syrian opposition propaganda. Characters are appropriated and re-narrated in
order to reflect anti-regime protest propaganda. Strategies such as re-dubbing
and re-scripting are used to ascribe new stories to known characters in order to
bring across anti-regime protest messages. Characters are spread on social media
where they display their protest messages through the use of familiar narratives,
which reminds viewers of characters from their childhood.
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KUNSTUUR
Een uitzending over de Prix de Rome uitrijking waarin Foundland ook aan het woord komt, 20 december 2015

Aanstaande zondag in Kunstuur aandacht voor de prestigieuze Prix de Rome. Vier genomineerde kunstenaars dingen mee naar deze oudste prijs in Nederland die bestaat uit een bedrag van 40.000 euro en een werkperiode in Rome.
Prix de Rome
Lucas sprak met kanshebbers Foundland, Hedwig Houben, Christian Nyampeta en Magali Reus over het werk wat zij speciaal voor deze prijs maakten. En natuurlijk is Kunstuur ook bij de prijsuitreiking in de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam met Koningin Máxima.
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