Lina Issa

From Jan-May 2012

2012-01-08T05:53:00.000-08:00

1- I will be working on my website.
2- I will be teaching at the University of Amsterdam: Masters in Performance and Theater studies.
2- I will be participating in the masterclass Sandeberg@Mediafonds titled: Curating Reality.
3- I will be preparing for my coming residency at IBB in Curaço.
4- I will be working on a group exhibition and publication at the Umea Museum, Sweden opening March 18.
5- I will be dreaming, cooking, dancing, caressing, longing, playing, resisting, challenging, doubting and celebrating..

Tug of War- Happening in Kiruna

2011-09-04T08:39:00.001-07:00

On the 8th of September 2011 at 17:00 hrs, 250 inhabitants of Kiruna have created a red rope on the 3 km first estimated ‘crack line’ that will be caused by the Iron mine in the city in 2013.
This rope was made out of personal red pieces of clothing that everyone brought with him/her. As the rope was formed, the 3km area covered by walking with the rope, and small memories of the place to miss in the future were shared, and a picture of everyone’s feet has been made, the people divided in teams and played the game ‘rope pulling’/ ‘Tug of War’. ¬ Drinks were served after!

This crack line will separate one of the oldest parts of the city, including the Hjlmargarden, the LKAB hotel, the railway station and many residential buildings, from the rest of Kiruna.

This Happening/ project was motivated by the numbness and fear that people had towards the situation.

I wanted the people to form a collective body and stand at a symbolic spot, and to engage in the ‘rope pulling’ game as an invitation to reclaim their role in the political economical push pull game that will decide the future of their town.

I wondered how would it be to physically confront the crack? and if the crack would be the cause of a crack in the memory and history of the town?

NSD newspaper, Kiruna

Norbotten Kurieren newspaper, Kiruna

“where there's a lot to do one should begin by eating"

2011-06-23T04:21:00.000-07:00

Lina Issa - performance & video artist in collaboration with Maureen de Jong - ‘t klein kookbedrijf

Lay your tongue out on the table and start tasting | raise your glass with us and celebrate | enter into a commitment for this night and beyond | let the mysterious economy of the encounter guide us through Nuit Blanche 2011 | 4 pleasures to the palate | 4 images | 80 toasts like tongue twisters | every 2 hours 3 sessions starting from 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. | toasts to be purchased with the vending ladies in the corridors of the Eddie the Eagle Shopping Center throughout the entire white night |Magna Plaza Amsterdam | 18-06-2011

(with the support of Sophia Jonker | Michelle van Aggelen | Adnan Hasovic)

“waar veel te doen is moet men met eten beginnen”

2011-06-23T04:17:00.000-07:00

Lina Issa - performance & video artist in samenwerking met Maureen de Jong - ‘t klein kookbedrijf

(met medewerking van Sophia Jonker | Michelle van Aggelen | Adnan Hasovic)

2010-08-05T09:33:00.000-07:00

Recent Work

Memories of White | 3-screen video installation 7' | 2010

A portrait of an encounter between two women.

Arriving in a new city, I asked Hulya, a Turkish single mother, to adopt me for 2 weeks. I made no contact with my own world, but immersed myself in hers. We shared silence and the resonance of painful memories in our bodies. (read more in the 'Projects Description' section)

video still

documentation of the video installation

15-Love | video 6' | 2010

You arrive in a new place where you do not know the rules of the game. In this strange new context you encounter your own limits as well as your strength.

I had the chance to lead 6 weeks of a ''citizenship” course for immigrant women. I chose to give them a series of voice and movement workshops. This video is a result of this encounter.

2010-03-04T02:47:00.001-08:00

What if, if I take your place?

1 Nov '09- 28 Feb '10

Artist in residence at IASPIS, Stockholm

As I arrived to Stockholm,

I placed an advertisement in the local newspaper:

I received 30 reactions. I replaced 9 people out of them.

(read more in the 'Projects Description' section)

> Documentation of the performance

2' 55" | excerpt from 2hr 30 min

> Blog posted by William Easton on the performance

http://www.inarchive.com/page/2010-05-03/http://www.tenstakonsthall.se/blog/what-if-i-took-your-place

video still | perfromance

2009-06-22T09:23:00.001-07:00

Where We Are Not | 2006-2009
In 2006, as a student from Lebanon, I was denied my residence permit in The Netherlands for strictly bureaucratic reasons. Since I appealed against this decision,
I was not able to leave The Netherlands and re-enter the country.

Not being able to travel home myself, I cast a replacement and sent Aitana
a Spanish dancer, to Lebanon for 10 days as my stand-in, messenger and recording device. She visited different people -my family and friends, and traced the places of my memory and what constitutes the idea of 'home' to me. (read more in the 'Projects Description' section)

documentation of the project | 3' 34"

2009-06-22T09:15:00.000-07:00

Projects with Zina platform

Do you have something on with a special memory? | 2009

A dress made out of personal memories of people I encountered in Zeeburg, Amsterdam. The dress functions as a public- meeting space and is sewed by women from the neighborhood.

Vincenzo/ Mustapha | 2' | 2009

One of 8 videos: Zina Rocco Tales.

Made by Zina in the frame of the theater production 'Rocco and his brothers', by Toneelgroep Amsterdam (originally a film by L. Visconti)

Zeeburg Noir-9 SHOTS | 2009

It is a series of 9 photo portraits of Eastern women I met in Zeeburg, Amsterdam. I chose the concept of ‘Femmes Fatales’ as a departure point. Together with those women, I looked for poses that flirted with the references of a strong emancipated Western woman in contrast with an isolated Eastern one.

Elektra, Javastraat 48 HS

Lilith, Makassastraat 7-3

Lamia, Sumatrastraat 26-2

Salomé, Soembawastraat 295

Delila, Eerste Atjehstraat 35-1

Circe, Timoerplein 13 HS

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