A site specific interactive installation, video and a performance. On entering the space a ‘Welcome Home’ sign in Norwegian is misspelled. There are party decorations on the wall and on the floor. Ashery, dressed as a Norwegian postman, wrote names of Palestinian villages that had ‘disappeared’ during 1947-9 and replaced them with the names of the Israeli villages that have been built on top. Visitors were invited to take part in a number of interactions including; Returning, hanging out on the mattresses, eating watermelon and playing backgammon. The video Oh Jerusalem was projected. At the end of the event the space looked like an ‘after party’ mess, with party decorations everywhere, bits of food and drink, and notes all over the walls.
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Additional project information: Welcome Home dedicated project website
http://sceneweb.no/nb/production/39020/What_is_your_current_adress