Siwa has a triple vocation. In general terms, Siwa seeks to be a space of reflection and artistic experimentation on methods of creation in the contemporary Arab world.
As a result, Siwa also presents itself as a platform for exchange between artists from the "Arab world" and the "West": a mobile laboratory engaging in a process of reflection on issues both sides take for granted, and their relationship to each other.
Finally, Siwa proposes itself as a place where people can freely exhibit, tap into the symptoms and tensions at work in these societies, as well as report on the various obstacles faced by artists in the Arab world, culturally and socially as well as in strict political terms.
Siwa is therefore a place that is conducive to rupture and outpourings, resolutely open to experiences of freedom, with the intention of contributing to the movement and renewal of ideas, while bridging gaps between cultures and languages. This emancipatory goal of experimentation, critical thinking, and dialogue poses Siwa as a locus of the possible in a world in crisis.
Siwa, whose primary vocation is to promote processes of convergence both locally and globally, can thus be open to the time of the other, without denying the different sense of time that has marked the recent history of these societies.
In seeking to foster the exchange of ideas, Siwa must also reflect on language, while striving to restore the forces and rough edges of this world in turmoil, where avant-garde still has meaning. In doing so, it is important not to impose a particular vision on that which responds to other aesthetic, ideological and political requirements.
By addressing the way we look at things, Siwa is working to displace the visible, to produce a zone of indeterminacy that creates a drift, giving rise to questions and critical thinking.
No-one will be take offence at the Arab world being presented as a world plunged in deep crisis. In such a context, any cultural undertaking is a breath of fresh air and generates an extraordinary impact, especially when it addresses a predominantly young audience eager for knowledge and change.
It is in these particular conditions that Siwa promises to give time for thinking, to foster and support artistic processes over time, before revealing these processes through public presentations. |
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