@e_flux wrote:
The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel has reported that Lebanese-American artist Walid Raad has been denied a prize he was set to receive due to his support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to apply pressure to the Israeli goverment to change its policies towards Palestinians. The German city of Aachen had selected Raad to receive an award for his fifteen-year project The Atlas Group, which deals with the history of civil war and social upheavel in Lebanon. But the mayor of Aachen, Marcel Philipp, issued a statement saying that the award would be withdrawn after Raad’s support for BDS came to light. Read the original article in German here, or a translated version (via Google) here.
Image: Walid Raad and his piece We decided to let them say, “we are convinced” twice. It was more convincing this way, 1982/2006. Via ICA Boston.
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