Siddieqa, Firdaus, Abdallah, Soelayman, Moestafa, Hawwa and Dzoel-Kifl (2004), 41 mins by Joost Conijn
Film series in Ludlow 38
9/25/08, 7-9pm & 9/26/08 – 9/28/08, 1-6pm
38 Ludlow Street (between Grand and Hester)New York, NY 10002
(212) 228 6848
38 Ludlow Street (between Grand and Hester)New York, NY 10002
(212) 228 6848
Admission is free
Dutch artist Joost Conijn's video installation Siddieqa, Firdaus, Abdallah, Soelayman, Moestafa, Hawwa and Dzoel-Kifl (2004) features a group of seven Dutch children growing up in an atypical Islamic family on a squatted site near Amsterdam. The protagonists in Conijn's video are seemingly abandoned in the world. The carefree joyful children appear to be shipwrecked in a 21st century urban environment where they do as they please – playing, exploring, eating and sleeping without adult supervision.
Siddieqa, Firdaus, Abdallah, Soelayman, Moestafa, Hawwa and Dzoel-Kifl continues Conijn’s interest in the coexistence and chance encounters between different ethnicities and religions and argues that anti-authoritarian education is still alive somewhere at the fringes of contemporary society.
Joost Conijn was born in 1971; he lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2007 the Museum boijmans van beuningen in Rotterdam showed a larger body of works in a one person show. He recently participated in the group show Play Safe at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin.
Dutch artist Joost Conijn's video installation Siddieqa, Firdaus, Abdallah, Soelayman, Moestafa, Hawwa and Dzoel-Kifl (2004) features a group of seven Dutch children growing up in an atypical Islamic family on a squatted site near Amsterdam. The protagonists in Conijn's video are seemingly abandoned in the world. The carefree joyful children appear to be shipwrecked in a 21st century urban environment where they do as they please – playing, exploring, eating and sleeping without adult supervision.
Siddieqa, Firdaus, Abdallah, Soelayman, Moestafa, Hawwa and Dzoel-Kifl continues Conijn’s interest in the coexistence and chance encounters between different ethnicities and religions and argues that anti-authoritarian education is still alive somewhere at the fringes of contemporary society.
Joost Conijn was born in 1971; he lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2007 the Museum boijmans van beuningen in Rotterdam showed a larger body of works in a one person show. He recently participated in the group show Play Safe at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin.
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