Ayreen Anastas
Ayreen Anastas was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. She relocated to Germany in 1989 for a DAAD scholarship where she studied architecture at the Technical University in Berlin until 1996. She is currently living in Brooklyn and teaching at Pratt Institute since 1999. She is one of the primary organizers of the 16 Beaver group, an artist community that functions as a social and collaborative space on 16 Beaver street. Anastas’ recent artistic projects and exhibitions include: Pasolini Pa* Palestine (2005); M* of Bethlehem; “In the poem about love you don’t write the word love?” (2005); “The Library of Useful Knowledge,” an audiovisual archive at Inside Out Festival at the Bunker in Berlin; and collaborations with artist Rene Gabri (Camp Campaign, Artist talk, Radio Active, United We Stand). Her practice engages with issues of public and political space, language, the everyday and the question of Palestine.
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involved in making this happen for a third year. Most of all,
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