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Liverpool, In the coming july, a group of 30 British and Arab artists will start creating the first building blocs of a monumental installation that mixes art and multiculturalism.

 
During their 2 weeks-long residency at the Blackie, the artists will create the first part of major new international artwork entitled 'The Womb' (www.pax08.com) . The installation addresses the question surrounding the eruption of the human consciousness in the womb and presents an alternative way of approaching our differences that occur only after birth, when 'I' and 'you' become differentiated from each other by history, language, culture, tradition and religion.
Presenting our differences in perception of what shapes our consciousness, the artworks that form the womb can be viewed as as abstraction of the world-in-waiting, a metaphor/invitation to move our differences inside the womb to interiorise their complexities and make them integral parts of our beings.
The Womb is a nomad and autonomous structure designed by Ross Lovegrove and to be build by estrablished and up-and-coming artists globally during 4 years (2008-2012).
 
Starting at Liverpool, the capital of culture, the project will cover the four continents before coming back to London in 2012 during the summer Olympics.. Once completed, this monumental nomad structure womb will measure up to 1000m2 of artworks and will be the gift of artists to the world. Upon entering the room-womb, the viewer regresses to the foetal state and is invited to an ‘initiation’ journey through the world of consciousness, where our differences are a uniting factor and not a reason of conflict (as often emerges from the real life differentiations).

In parallel to the creative collaboration stage that will be held in Liverpool from 1st to 15th of July, the participant artists will have their individual works staged in 'Oceans apart', an exhibition that will tour Liverpool (The International and Tito's art galleries - from 5th to 17th July) and London (Artiquea - from 24th August to 13th September)
 
A second exhibition of the Collabotrative Circle entitled 'Enlightenment, Act 1', that will feature the artworks created during the the first 2 weeks of July will be held in The Blackie, Liverpool from 13th September to 15th October.
 
ABOUT THE CURATOR and THE ARTISTS
 
The Womb is curated by Dr.Lotfi Kaabi and Dr.Nada Shabout.
 
Born in Tunisia, Dr.Lotfi Kaabi has lived and worked in several countries including Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, France, USA, Spain, Germany and Slovenia. He received an M.S, PhD in digital imaging, MBA, B.S Economics. Lotfi worked at the UCLA and other universities in the field of medical imaging, space technology and remote sensing before founding several IT start-ups. During the last 5 years, he became interested in the art, founded "Regard" art gallery, curated several artists and published an art critique supplement. In 2006, he moved to the UK and founded MetaConcept that aims to organise art events and to offer the SMEs with site specific art installations that reflect their corporate values.
 
Nada Shabout was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the oldest of three children born to a Palestinian mother and Iraqi father. Shabout was trained in architecture at the New York Institute of Technology,. She has also earned BFA fine arts, MA and PhD in the Humanities with a concentration in art history and criticism from the University of Texas at Arlington, 1999. is a founding member and first president (2007-2009) of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab world, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA).
 
The exhibitors are:
 
 
 
For more information, please call Dr. LotUKfi Kaabi at (44) 7910 908 758 or email him at lotfi@pax08.com

 

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