{"id":1772,"date":"2018-04-17T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maarav.org.il\/english\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2018-06-26T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T12:35:32","slug":"pinchas-cohen-gan-action-refugee-camp-jericho-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maarav.org.il\/english\/2018\/04\/17\/pinchas-cohen-gan-action-refugee-camp-jericho-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinchas Cohen Gan, Action in the Refugee Camp in Jericho, 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 10 February 1974, Pinchas Cohen Gan carried out an action in the refugee camp located in Jericho\u2019s northeast, near Hisham Palace. The camp had been virtually abandoned by its inhabitants after the war and declared a closed military zone. In the course of the action Cohen Gan delivered a lecture on \u201cIsrael in 2000\u201d to an audience of two refugees, a handful of students who had accompanied him, and the sector commander, who had authorized the event in advance. In his lecture Cohen presented sketches of regional refugeeism conditions and said that \u201ca refugee is person who cannot return to his homeland\u201d. As part of the action a temporary shelter was built in the camp. Curator Marc Scheps<\/em> wrote with reference to this action that Cohen Gan stages meaningful situations for which the surroundings serve as a backdrop, and thus he in effect creates a monologue whose aim is to define situations, not change them.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\"\"\n

From the artist\u2019s journal, 10 February 1974: \u201cThis action was formulated over the past few years and actually took shape after the Yom Kippur War. The problem: giving spiritual and physical expression to the feelings of a person who is in a state of constant refugeeism. A legal ruling on the question of \u2018who is a refugee\u2019 or the UN\u2019s definition of a refugee does not change his very existence and feelings regarding the territories in which he lived or through which he passed\u201d.<\/p>\n

23 April 1974: \u201cThis situation is the result of a balance between different entities in and outside our milieu\u201d.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Marc Scheps<\/em>, Pinchas Cohen Gan \u2013 Actions, Musag 1<\/em>, April 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 10 February 1974, Pinchas Cohen Gan carried out an action in the refugee camp located in Jericho\u2019s northeast, near Hisham Palace. The camp had been virtually abandoned by its<\/p>\n

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