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53rd Venice Bienniale sees Middle Eastern participation for the first time.


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Palestine c/o Venice marks the first Palestinian participation at the Venice Biennale Venice Biennale

International art exhibition held in the Castello district of Venice every two years and juried by an international committee. It was founded in 1895 as the International Exhibition of Art of the City of Venice to promote “the most noble activities of
. The work exhibited is by seven artists, Taysir Batniji, Shadi Habib Allah, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti pet·ti  
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, Emily Jacir Emily Jacir is an artist born in Ramallah in 1970. She lives and works between New York and her hometown.

She uses many mediums: photography, video, performance, audio and installation.
, Jawad Al Malhi and Khalil Rabah. Two of the art projects are collaborations with different Palestinian communities, whose members have travelled to Venice to participate in the art performance and the Symposium. For those unable to obtain travel passes, six Palestinian art Palestinian art is a term used to refer to paintings, posters, installation art and other visual media produced by Palestinian artists.

While the term has also been used to refer to ancient art produced in the geographical region of Palestine, in its modern usage it
 institutions will exhibit duplicates of the art works, allowing Palestinian audiences to participate in the opening of the exhibition simultaneously to its opening in Venice. The Palestinian venues are: the A.M. Qattan Foundation, Birzeit University Art Museum, Al Hoash Palestinian Art Court, International Academy of Art Palestine, Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, and Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation. The other Middle Eastern participant is the UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. .
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Date:Jul 1, 2009
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