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Guy Mannes-Abbott - In Ramallah, Running: A Reading Performance
Event dates
Thursday, 6 March, 2014
Opening
3 April 2014 - 10:45am
Event times
5pm - 6pm
Guy Mannes-Abbott is a writer, essayist and critic who lives and works in London. Mannes-Abbott will read from his recent highly-acclaimed book In Ramallah, Running accompanied by a projection of related photographs and artworks
made in response to his writing. This will be followed by a Q&A with Melbourne-based Sary Zananiri, a Palestinian-Australian artist and writer.
In Ramallah, Running represents Guy Mannes-Abbott's uniquely personal encounter with Palestine, interweaving
short, highly condensed texts with longer, exploratory essays at the place. International artists and prominent writers
have responded to the texts with newly commissioned works.
The principal text is a series in 14 parts, alternating running within the limits of the city and walking out from it to,
along, beyond and off limits, discovering how insidiously mobile those limits are under Occupation. With singular
style and compelling force, Mannes-Abbott generates a very special intimacy with a rarely seen or experienced
Palestine; the actual place itself, the people in their place.
Location
Galleries UNSW (Courtyard Gallery)