The orchestra of space holders

This Installation is a continuation of the project Let’s Stay Connected, in which tin can telephones were stretched in places where communication has been broken by geography, modernity, and politics. Over the past few years this communication device has found its way over gaps and barriers such as the separation wall between Palestine and Israel, or peak to peak in Twin Peaks, San Francisco, CA. Bringing this project to an indoor space, it is further composed as a multi tin can telephone installation. In addition, it is accompanied by a book, The Orchestra Of Space Holders, which serves as an inspirational guide through a distant yet intimate conversation. Each page is followed by creatures who carry the protective/evil eye on their chest and exist to help us ponder and perhaps understand the commonly used term “to hold space”.

Do we hold space? How do we hold space? Why do we hold it? And who do we hold it for/with?

A risograph version of this book was printed by A Magic Mountain, on top of a cliff in Northern California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It is a limited edition of 40 copies, 11 pages, four colors prints. Available for purchase here. The originals were made out of paper cuts by Bonny Nahmias in between time spent in the forest or at her studio at Root Division. Both print-books and originals are 12” x 9”