publicast me
Love, for oneself, the other, the system, maybe
To those whose oneself attacks them
The rooted and the uprooted alike, whole or broken; invalids?
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is present in the Jordanian reality, with no less than 3000 MS patients (according to a study in 2006). PubliCast Me is an attempt to start a conversation that overwhelms indifference, shame or guilt.
Faces, realities and lives of people of different backgrounds that have a common wound, MS. PubliCast Me fuses elements of its characters’ environments, objects, habits and what they choose to show while noise and distractions of life in the city swallow the sound and force isolated confinement, maybe. Moving image is interrupted by architecture and circumstance; blackened windows eating up part of the shoulder: Cast Me; the stereotype enveloping the sickened.
To those whose oneself attacks them
The rooted and the uprooted alike, whole or broken; invalids?
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is present in the Jordanian reality, with no less than 3000 MS patients (according to a study in 2006). PubliCast Me is an attempt to start a conversation that overwhelms indifference, shame or guilt.
Faces, realities and lives of people of different backgrounds that have a common wound, MS. PubliCast Me fuses elements of its characters’ environments, objects, habits and what they choose to show while noise and distractions of life in the city swallow the sound and force isolated confinement, maybe. Moving image is interrupted by architecture and circumstance; blackened windows eating up part of the shoulder: Cast Me; the stereotype enveloping the sickened.
PubliCast Me consisted of projections in three different locations that took place on Oct.18th, 23rd and 25th in Lwebdeh and in the Prince Mohammed Street vicinity.
These projections happened simultaneously to create a sense of excitement as well as perhaps sometimes, just like MS; confinement, one sees the ghost wherever they look. The visual material panned from video, photography and Arabic and English expressions inspired or used by the 3 female MS patients that were part of PubliCast me.
The online material is supposed to reflect and grasp some of the feel of the exterior urban projections in addition to the documentation, an overview in loose sync to simulate the live projection show, and a last conclusion video called the Balm; in which I filmed the first rain in downtown Amman. This is the only video that has sound in this collection. Sound of rain against our silence (all sorts of silence) that can no longer distort the image, that could only wash away the wound?
These videos and the actual individual entities (Arabic text, English text, Photos and videos of the montage, documentation, overview and balm) were played independently, insync and simultaneously during a talk about PubliCast Me which took place on Oct. 31st of 2019.
These projections happened simultaneously to create a sense of excitement as well as perhaps sometimes, just like MS; confinement, one sees the ghost wherever they look. The visual material panned from video, photography and Arabic and English expressions inspired or used by the 3 female MS patients that were part of PubliCast me.
The online material is supposed to reflect and grasp some of the feel of the exterior urban projections in addition to the documentation, an overview in loose sync to simulate the live projection show, and a last conclusion video called the Balm; in which I filmed the first rain in downtown Amman. This is the only video that has sound in this collection. Sound of rain against our silence (all sorts of silence) that can no longer distort the image, that could only wash away the wound?
These videos and the actual individual entities (Arabic text, English text, Photos and videos of the montage, documentation, overview and balm) were played independently, insync and simultaneously during a talk about PubliCast Me which took place on Oct. 31st of 2019.