In the late summer of 2009, I traveled with the artist Beatrice Catanzaro through the West Bank and made eventually the acquaintance of the members of the Nablus Old City Charity Society. With one of them, Fatima Kadumy, we worked out the idea to build up something together that could combine capacity building for the women in Nablus and artistic activities, two years after the opening of Bait al Karama. the first women’s center combining a culinary social enterprise with activities of art and culture run entirely by women. In these two years of founding Bait al Karama I was occupied with conceptualizing artistic operations which should merge with local social activities going beyond the geopolitical context. Here I deepened the research about archives and maps, as information and knowledge structures.
With the official opening of Bait al Karama in 2011 I concluded for myself this still ongoing project.
