9783735603050 - the parachute paradox: steve sabella von steve sabella (3 Ergebnisse)
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression, one of an edition limited to 1250 numbered copies, this being No. 170. 300pp, bound in black cloth-covered boards folding over text block, creating a doubled upper panelled box. White lettering on the front panel. 8vo.…There is a tad of yellowing on the lower text block edge, else as new throughout - still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. Parachute Paradox is the semi-fictionalised , award-winning memoir of Jerusalem born artist, Steve Sabella, published 2016. It details Sabella's upbringing in occupied Jerusalem, his detention by Israeli authorities and his eventual flee from Palestine to the west; and it explores the twinned topics of physical and creative liberation through imagination. The book's design and physical production is also artistically unusual, conceived by Sabella himself and designed by Verlena Gerlach. The first edition was printed in a limited edition of 1250 numbered copies, in addition to 150 numbered artist proofs and a 100 copies reserved for the media.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression, one of an edition limited to 1250 numbered copies, this being No. 431. Signed and inscribed by Steve Sabella on the title page, 'To Fernada' dated autumn 2016. This copy includes, loosely laid in, a promotional bookmark… featuring some of Sabella's work and a message from the artist, presumably released at the time of publication. 300pp, bound in black cloth-covered boards folding over text block, creating a doubled upper panelled box. White lettering on the front panel. 8vo. A tad of yellowing on text block edges else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Parachute Paradox is the semi-fictionalised , award-winning memoir of Jerusalem born artist, Steve Sabella, published 2016. It details Sabella's upbringing in occupied Jerusalem, his detention by Israeli authorities and his eventual flee from Palestine to the west; and it explores the twinned topics of physical and creative liberation through imagination. The book's design and physical production is also artistically unusual, conceived by Sabella himself and designed by Verlena Gerlach. The first edition was printed in a limited edition of 1250 numbered copies, in addition to 150 numbered artist proofs and a 100 copies reserved for the media.
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Limited Edition, Number 679 of 1250. 300 pages. Portfolio has text on spine and front. Text is in English. The Parachute Paradox won the 2016 Nautilus Book Awards for best memoir. The book was also a finalist for The International Book Awards. Steve Sabella ( born 975 in Jerusalem, Palestine), is a Berlin-based international art…ist using photography and photographic installations as his primary forms of expression. His research focuses on the genealogy and archaeology of the image. He is the author of the award-winning memoir, The Parachute Paradox, published by Kerber Verlag (Berlin, 2016) tackling the colonization of the imagination. The book won the 2017 Eric Hoffer Award. In 2008, Sabella received the Ellen Auerbach Award by nomination from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, leading to a monograph covering twenty years of his art published by Hatje Cantz (Berlin, 2014) with texts by Hubertus von Amelunxen, president of the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and a foreword by artist and art historian Kamal Boullata who described Sabella's work as a dream to discover. Sabella received a BA in Visual Studies from the State University of New York in 2007. Through a Chevening Scholarship in 2008, he earned a master's degree in Photographic Studies at the University of Westminster, London, graduating with a Caparo Award of Distinction, granted to the highest achieving scholar in the art university. In 2009, he earned his second master's in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London. The Parachute Paradox tells the life story of artist Steve Sabella (1975), who was born in Jerusalem's Old City and raised under Israeli occupation. After living through both intifadas, being kidnapped in Gaza, and learning to navigate Palestinian and Israeli culture, he feels in exile at home. For him, the occupation attaches each Palestinian to an Israeli, as if in a tandem jump. The Israeli is always in control, placing the Palestinian under threat in a never-ending hostage situation. He realizes he has two options: either surrender or unbuckle his harness. Blurring fact and fiction, love and loss, the memoir traces one man's arduous search for liberation from within, through a confrontation with his colonized imagination. The Parachute Paradox is a memoir by the artist Steve Sabella. It details the development of his art practice as a means of mental emancipation from the colonization of the imagination. The London-based newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed stated, "The Parachute Paradox.proposes a subject that is unprecedented in Palestinian literature: the liberation of the self and the homeland through the liberation of the imagination." Throughout the memoir, Sabella writes on the psychic and physical effects of living in an occupied Palestine. The book's title metaphors the Israeli occupation, referring to a tandem skydive jump Sabella took in Haifa. Sabella identifies the Israeli occupation as affecting both the bodily and mental lives of Palestinians. With Israel's constant military presence, the establishment of checkpoints and barriers, and the construction of settlements, he finds that Palestinian reality has become fragmented and entrapped in a seemingly eternal condition: . Palestinians reached a point where they were no longer able to imagine that they could live in freedom. The colonization on Palestinian land was obvious, but what was hidden was the colonization of the imagination. Leaving Jerusalem for London in 2007 and then Berlin in 2010, Sabella writes about life in exileâ"a state experienced both at home, as a Palestinian living under occupation, and abroad. Sabella explains that his identity is based on his understanding of the world, rather than his religion, ethnicity, or nationality. Sabella argues for the necessity of a personal, mental liberation from systemic oppression instead of one that is solely based on political and social change. Referring to The Parachute Paradox as "this captivating black book," the philosopher, curator, and writer Almut S.
