mamila pOOl* we call a project which we wanted to realize downtown Jerusalem. During a visit in Israel 2003 our friend Tal Adler showed us this amazing huge and empty space/pool - and we started do a research and to imagine.. For the Mamilla Pool we elaborated the idea to “fill” it with 5000 red helium filled balloons, (80cm diameter, each) like a flying carpet / ceiling. Mamilla Pool is situated between a Jewish quarter and Mamilla Cemetery**, an abandoned Muslim graveyard. with the balloon installation we wanted to invite all neighbors, teachers and their pupils from both sides (...) to realize it with us, and to add after two days of its presence a note to the string of each balloon before to let it fly. When we tried to get the permission for that we were told by the authorities of Jerusalem town hall that we'll need, due the “endangering of the public Israeli airspace that each single balloon describes”, for each balloon the permission form three different ministries. due to this fact we never could realize it. Now we’re thinking about doing an exhibition nearby the pool in order to show the projects failure and its reasons.
the project was “done” by c a l c. c a l c = Teresa Alonso Novo / Dani Gomez Blasco / omi (Thomas Scheiderbauer) and Malex Spiegel, an art-collective since 1992. for more info on c a l c please visit: www.calcaxy.com/works
..and elaborated in collaboration with our friends Eva Morales Soler, David Cañavate Cazorla y Rubén Alonso Mallén from the Sevillan architecture studio lapanaderia.
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*Mamilla Pool is one of several ancient reservoirs that supplied water to the inhabitants of the Old City of Jerusalem It is located outside the wall's of the Old City about 700 yards northwest of Jaffa Gate in the center of the Mamilla Cemetary. With a capacity of 30,000 cubic meters, it is connected by an underground channel to Hezekiah's Pool in the Christian Quarter of the Old City. It is possible that it has received water via an aqueduct from Salomons Pools.
**Mamilla Cemetery is an historic Muslim cemetery located just to the west of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem The cemetery, at the center of which lies the Mamilla Pool, contains the remains of figures from the early Islamic period, several Sufi shrines and Mamluk-era tombs. The cemetery grounds also contain the bodies of thousands of Christians killed in the pre-Islamic era, as well as several tombs from Crusader times. Its identity as an Islamic cemetery is noted by Arab and Persian writers as early as the 11th century. It was used as a burial site up until 1927 when the Supreme Muslim Council decided to preserve it as a historic site.
(source: Wikipedia)
mamila pOOl* we call a project which we wanted to realize downtown Jerusalem. During a visit in Israel 2003 our friend Tal Adler showed us this amazing huge and empty space/pool - and we started do a research and to imagine.. For the Mamilla Pool we elaborated the idea to “fill” it with 5000 red helium filled balloons, (80cm diameter, each) like a flying carpet / ceiling. Mamilla Pool is situated between a Jewish quarter and Mamilla Cemetery**, an abandoned Muslim graveyard. with the balloon installation we wanted to invite all neighbors, teachers and their pupils from both sides (...) to realize it with us, and to add after two days of its presence a note to the string of each balloon before to let it fly. When we tried to get the permission for that we were told by the authorities of Jerusalem town hall that we'll need, due the “endangering of the public Israeli airspace that each single balloon describes”, for each balloon the permission form three different ministries. due to this fact we never could realize it. Now we’re thinking about doing an exhibition nearby the pool in order to show the projects failure and its reasons.
the project was “done” by c a l c. c a l c = Teresa Alonso Novo / Dani Gomez Blasco / omi (Thomas Scheiderbauer) and Malex Spiegel, an art-collective since 1992. for more info on c a l c please visit: www.calcaxy.com/works
..and elaborated in collaboration with our friends Eva Morales Soler, David Cañavate Cazorla y Rubén Alonso Mallén from the Sevillan architecture studio lapanaderia.
. . .
*Mamilla Pool is one of several ancient reservoirs that supplied water to the inhabitants of the Old City of Jerusalem It is located outside the wall's of the Old City about 700 yards northwest of Jaffa Gate in the center of the Mamilla Cemetary. With a capacity of 30,000 cubic meters, it is connected by an underground channel to Hezekiah's Pool in the Christian Quarter of the Old City. It is possible that it has received water via an aqueduct from Salomons Pools.
**Mamilla Cemetery is an historic Muslim cemetery located just to the west of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem The cemetery, at the center of which lies the Mamilla Pool, contains the remains of figures from the early Islamic period, several Sufi shrines and Mamluk-era tombs. The cemetery grounds also contain the bodies of thousands of Christians killed in the pre-Islamic era, as well as several tombs from Crusader times. Its identity as an Islamic cemetery is noted by Arab and Persian writers as early as the 11th century. It was used as a burial site up until 1927 when the Supreme Muslim Council decided to preserve it as a historic site.
(source: Wikipedia)