The Womb Concept

The Womb is a nomadic multifunctional art & cultural venue that offers a space for collaborative conscious art creation.
The project aims to bring together communities with various views of the world to celebrate their differences through various means – art, science and culture and to engage artists, intellectuals, scientists and opinion leaders in building collaboratively bridges between various communities

By placing the artistic expressions in the very core of the Womb, the viewer is invited to reflect on our differences with the freshness of the fetus eyes. For the initiated viewer, ‘You’ and ‘I’ disappear leaving place to the connected and complex being that embraces the most contradicting views of the world.

The Womb is an opportunity to address complex social issues comprehensively through collaborative creation of fine arts, dance, music, poetry and literature, theater, social events, science conferences debates.

The Womb Specs

- has monumental proportions of up to 1000 m2 surface
- made of nomadic structure called tulips and a central dome
- when completed, it will be collaborative work of hundreds of artists from around the world over the period 2008-2012
- is organic in growth
- is representative of the human diversity

Building the Womb

- Staged creation of the Womb through the involvement of artists, intellectuals and scientists in PAX Collaborative Circle over the period 2008-2012

- Each stage takes One year for completion, takes place in a different country that represent an perfect exemple of the risks and opportunities that involve the human dividers, i.e. Culture, Race, Religion, Economic and Social issues. Through the engagement of local communities in the creation and the development of PAX events, The Womb concept becomes immersed in the local reality. Rather then being an imported / exotic show, the Womb is done by and for the local communities

- Each PAX stage has 3 phases:
1. Creative phase: The construction of the Tulip involves (1) offsite creative phase where artists globally participate in the creation of the Tulip skin according to certain specs and (2) onsite creative workshop where international artists from different backgrounds meet for 2 weeks period to create collaboratively elements that will be embedded in the tulip structure
2. The Womb Show - The opening of the Tulip to the local community is used as an opportunity to feature a program of events where art, music, dance, poetry, theatre, science and debates converge in addressing the topic of the year (culture, race, religion, economic and social divides)
3.The local chapter of PAX engage with local communities for future Tulip event planification and touring programme > Opening up globally