TASWIR Atlas / Curator s Diary

When performing the Mnemosyne, it is essential to start with the decomposition process, that is to say, with the mechanistic proliferations undoing the linear system.

ABY WARBURG, 1929

TASWIR / PICASSO AND KORAN

The calligraphic effect crystallizes when the letter glides into the pure visual significance of the stroke.

ROSE ISSA

TASWIR Madrasa / Martin-Gropius-Bau 2010

So one has to – I suppose – question first of all, WHAT SCENE OF KNOWLEDGE DO WE WISH TO CREATE [...]

SARAT MAHARAJ during TASWIR, January 17, 2010

TASWIR The Story

In der Verknüpfung und Verschiebung und Verdichtung der Namen und Dinge und Zeiten entstehen neue Wege, neue Formen, neue Techniken, neues Wissen.

WALID RAAD @ TASWIR / IndexXXVI_Artists / 2009 (Detail)

Le sujet n existe pas [...] Le sujet de l écriture est un système de rapports entre les couches: du bloc magique, du psychique, de la societé, du monde.

JACQUES DERRIDA

TASWIR / BLIND DATE

BUTHAYNA ALI / WE (NOUS / Nahnu) / 2006/2009

كل شخص يختارأرجوحته نتأرجح كالأطفال

بثينة علي

BodyLetter / PARASTOU FOROUHAR / 2008

Pour que l’écriture soit manifestée dans sa vérité […] il faut qu’elle soit illisible.

ROLAND BARTHES

TASWIR / TAYSIR BATNIJI / GAZA WALLS / 2001

Trauer ist der Widerstand gegen das Verschwinden.

DIETER ADELMANN

TASWIR / LIGHT SENTENCE / MONA HATOUM / 1992/2009

Das Karee ... ein Quadrat ohne Erbarmen

SIEGFRIED KRACAUER

TASWIR / AL-HALQA

PARASTOU FOROUHAR / COUNT DOWN / 2008

TASWIR / IMPRINT AND TOUCH

MONA HATOUM / + and - / 1994-2004

Il faut penser la vie comme trace […]. Seule l’absence pure […] peut inspirer, autrement dit travailler, puis faire travailler.

JACQUES DERRIDA

TASWIR / FACE AND EFFACED FACE

TAYSIR BATNIJI / MARTYRS / 2001

I believe, in this very exhibition, exile is not a state of mind, exile is not a metaphor. Exile unites so many entities, so many geographies, so many individuals, so many lives, and so many pains and so many sufferings

ABDUL-RAHIM AL-SHAIKH during TASWIR in Berlin

TASWIR / UTOPIA OF THE TEXT

JOSEPH SEMAH / TALMUD BAVLI PESSACHIM / An Introduction to the Principle of Relative Expression / 1979

TASWIR / The Agenda of an Exhibition / January 2010

to see truth without a veil is to see there is no seeing of truth but through the veil of truth

ELLIOT R. WOLFSON / guest book of the TASWIR exhibition Dec 9, 2009

TASWIR / GEOMETRIES

Egli [l’universo] è scritto in lingua matematica e i caratteri son triangoli, cerchi, ed altre figure geometriche; […] senza questi è un aggirarsi vanamente per un oscuro labirinto.

GALILEO GALILEI

BodyLetter / ZIYA AZAZI & PARASTOU FOROUHAR

Berlin, June 2008 / ha atelier

TASWIR / QURAN

WOLFGANG LAIB / Die fünf unbesteigbaren Berge / 1984 / 2009

مشاركة أرسل إلى صديق حفظ طباعة كنت كنزاً مخفياً فأحببت أن أُعرف فخلقت الخلق فبي عرفوني

حديث قدسى

TASWIR / HUMAN WRITES

THE FORSYTHE COMPANY / HUMAN WRITES / 2005-2012

Die Schrift entsteht in Human Writes aus einem Akt der körperlichen Verhinderung. Alles Schreiben wird erschwert, muss sich gegen Hindernisse durchsetzen.

WILLIAM FORSYTHE

TASWIR / FACE AND EFFACED FACE

TASWIR / POLIS

SHERIF EL-AZMA / AL QAHIRA - OUT OF PERSPECTIVE / 2009

It s as if Cairo is my body, and my body is Cairo.

SHERIF EL-AZMA during TASWIR

Denkraumschöpfung [...] Material zu einer Entwicklungsphysiologie des Pendelgangs.

ABY WARBURG, 1929

TASWIR / Curator s Diary Cairo

TASWIR / SPLINTERING THE LOGOS

BRION GYSON / CALLIGRAFFITI OF FIRE / 1985 with open HADITH

Fluxus is not a movement, not a moment in history, not an organization: Fluxus is an idea, a kind of work, a tendency, a way of life, a changing set of people who do Fluxworks.

DICK HIGGINS

TASWIR / The Principle of Relative Expression

With regard to the contemporary artwork, all viewers are on the same footing as non-experts, non-specialists, keyless, even cueless.

SARAT MAHARAJ

TASWIR / NALINI MALANI / TALES OF GOOD AND EVIL / 2008

When the whole mass of dream-thoughts is brought under the pressure of the dream-work, its elements turned about, broken into fragments and jammed together, the question arises of what happens to the logical connections which have hitherto formed its framework.

SIGMUND FREUD

TIMO NASSERI, Everything is Everything, in situ 2009 @ TASWIR

The diagrammatic or abstract machine does not function to represent even something real, but rather constructs a real that is yet to come, a new type of reality.

Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari