Wendy Babcox wbabcox@arts.usf.edu Assistant Professor of Photography School of Art and Art History University of South Florida, FAH 110 4202 E. Fowler Ave Tampa, FL 33620 Cell: 813-892-0689
Imaging Place: The West Bank Mission: 6+ is a collective which invites women artists from different cultural backgrounds to work together. We seek to develop a supportive, creative network of women artists through a practice of direct engagement - including exhibitions, publications, and community collaborations. We explore different possibilities for artistic cooperation across great distances, both geographic and cultural. Our work is about finding connections between apparently distant locations and experiences, while at the same time creating a space for difference. We believe it is possible to work together to create relationships outside the logic of the market, of commerce, of the media and of the march of armies.
Traveling exhibition: "Secrets" Eight emerging and established Palestinian women artists were invited to exhibit new work for "Secrets" along with the six members of 6+. The exhibition has traveled to The International Center of Bethlehem, Khalil Sakakini Center, Ramallah and Al Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem. Now in the US "Secrets" will be exhibited in Boulder, Colorado (2007) and Chicago (2008).
Community Project: "Turning Our Tongues" is a project initiated by 6+ in collaborating with a group of 18 young women (16-19) from the Deheisheh Refugee Camp in The West Bank. Over the course of three days the members of 6+ gave a series of creative workshops. The young artists learned to bind their own journals, wrote stories reflecting on daily life and interpreted those stories in audio form in a live choreographed performance format that integrated ambient sound as a narrative thread and reflection of a particular kind of urban space.
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