Abou-Rahme & Abbas
live and work in Ramallah and Ney York.
Ruanne Abou-Rahme i Basel Abbas are the artists work with sound installations, video and performance. Their practice originates from the investigation of relations between sound and image as well as science fiction, aesthetics and popular culture. Works by Abou-Rahme and Abbas are usually interdisciplinary installations and live audiovisual performances. The artists are also active as the performative collective, Tashweesh.
“Incidental Insurgents” is a two-part installation that comprises a video of the highways around the West Bank in Palestine and an installation – the artists’ working place, which appears to have been recently abandoned. A room filled with piles of notes, photographs, books, maps and posters is a place of forensic search for the three eponymous “bandits”: Victor Serge – Russian writer, anarchist and revolutionist; Abu Jilda – Palestinian, hailed as the Robin Hood of the Middle East (his band robbed the British who occupied Palestine in the 1930s), as well as artists – the protagonists of Roberto Bolańo’s book The Savage Detectives, set in the 1970s in Mexico.
The work confronts the necessity of searching for a new political language of our times. Featuring the “bandit” figure as a model of radical political action, the artists attempt to open a new perspective in the current conflicts and to stimulate a new political imaginary.
