{"id":10765,"date":"2023-08-08T21:46:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T20:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=10765"},"modified":"2023-10-01T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T13:38:31","slug":"the-troubled-bear-and-the-palace","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/video\/the-troubled-bear-and-the-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Troubled Bear and the Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Au sommet des montagnes de Gara, au Kurdistan irakien, les vestiges du palais de Saddam, construit en 1989, se dressent toujours. 29 ans plus tard, en mars 2018, deux ours en cage ont \u00e9t\u00e9 escort\u00e9s par un groupe de m\u00e9dias locaux et de femmes kurdes pour \u00eatre c\u00e9r\u00e9monieusement lib\u00e9r\u00e9s sur l&rsquo;h\u00e9liport adjacent au palais. Ayant v\u00e9cu en captivit\u00e9 tout au long de leur vie, les ours ont eu du mal \u00e0 survivre dans la nature. L&rsquo;un d&rsquo;eux a disparu tandis que l&rsquo;autre \u00e9tait \u00e0 la merci du personnel qui garde les tours de t\u00e9l\u00e9communication \u00e9rig\u00e9es au palais. La juxtaposition surr\u00e9aliste de l&rsquo;ours stress\u00e9 et du palais d\u00e9labr\u00e9, situ\u00e9 au milieu de magnifiques montagnes, r\u00e9sume la trag\u00e9die v\u00e9cue par les habitants de ce pays tout au long de l&rsquo;histoire, depuis l&rsquo;\u00e9poque de Gilgamesh jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 aujourd&rsquo;hui.<\/p>\n<p><em>At the 7,000 ft peak of the Gara mountains in Kurdistan of Iraq, the remains of Saddam&rsquo;s palace, built in 1989, still stand. 29 years later, in March of 2018, two caged bears were escorted by a group of local media and Kurdish women forces to be ceremoniously freed at the helipad adjacent to the palace. Having lived dependently and in captivity throughout its life, the bears struggled to survive in the wild. One vanished whilst the other was at the mercy of the personnel that guard the telecommunication towers erected at the palace. The surreal juxtaposition of the stressed bear and the dilapidated palace, set amongst the magnificent mountains, encapsulates the tragedy of the people of this land throughout history, from the time of Gilgamesh to the present.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Carte Blanche au Cairo Video Festival]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Troubled Bear and the Palace 2019 Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/476630688?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walidsiti.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"r48jcc pT0Scc iPVvYb alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_9232.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Walid Siti | Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX\" width=\"185\" height=\"266\" data-ilt=\"1691527512166\" \/>Walid Siti<\/strong> est n\u00e9 en 1954 dans la ville de Duhok, au Kurdistan irakien. Dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en 1976 de l&rsquo;Institut des beaux-arts de Bagdad, Siti a quitt\u00e9 l&rsquo;Irak pour poursuivre sa formation artistique \u00e0 Ljubljana, en Slov\u00e9nie, avant de demander l&rsquo;asile politique en 1984 au Royaume-Uni, o\u00f9 il vit et travaille. Anciennement form\u00e9 \u00e0 la gravure, Siti travaille beaucoup sur diff\u00e9rents supports, notamment la vid\u00e9o, l&rsquo;installation, les \u0153uvres en 3D, le travail sur papier et la peinture. Ses \u0153uvres traversent un terrain complexe, celui de la m\u00e9moire et de la perte, tout en offrant une vision aigu\u00eb d&rsquo;un monde qui, pour lui, a \u00e9t\u00e9 un lieu de changement constant. Le r\u00e9cit de l&rsquo;exp\u00e9rience de Siti, d&rsquo;une vie v\u00e9cue loin de son lieu de naissance mais toujours profond\u00e9ment li\u00e9e \u00e0 celui-ci sur le plan \u00e9motionnel, est un r\u00e9cit qu&rsquo;il partage avec de nombreux exil\u00e9s ; il s&rsquo;inspire de l&rsquo;h\u00e9ritage culturel de son pays natal, travers\u00e9 par des fronti\u00e8res militaris\u00e9es et des vagues de migration. Le travail de l&rsquo;artiste examine les tensions entre l&rsquo;identit\u00e9 collective, l&rsquo;interd\u00e9pendance et les contraintes impos\u00e9es \u00e0 l&rsquo;individu par les th\u00e8mes de l&rsquo;h\u00e9ritage, de la tradition, des maisons, des fronti\u00e8res, de la mobilit\u00e9 et de la migration.<\/p>\n<p>Walid Siti was born in 1954, in the city of Duhok, in Iraqi-Kurdistan. After graduating in 1976 from the Institute of Fine arts in Baghdad, Siti left Iraq to continue his arts education in Ljubljana, Slovenia before seeking political asylum in 1984 in the United Kingdom where he lives and works. Formerly trained in printmaking, Siti works extensively in a variety of mediums including video, installation, 3D works, work on paper and painting. His works traverse a complex terrain of memory and loss, while at the same time offering an acute insight into a world, which for him has been a place of constant change. The narrative of Siti\u2019s experience, of a life lived far from but still deeply emotionally connected to the place of one\u2019s birth, is one he shares with many exiles; he takes inspiration from the cultural heritage of his native land that is crisscrossed with militarized borders and waves of migration. The artist\u2019s work considers the tensions between collective identity, interdependence and the constraints placed on the individual by themes of heritage, tradition, homes, borders, mobility and migration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10766,"menu_order":0,"template":"","portfolio-category":[364],"portfolio-tag":[],"class_list":["post-10765","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio-category-friche-20-oct-2023-16h30"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/10765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-category?post=10765"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-tag?post=10765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}