• Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, we will all feel the pinch, before noon or soon thereafter. or i am a political prisoner you are a political prisoner she is a political prisoner he is a political prisoner we are political prisoners they are political prisoners, 2008,journey with some preparatory notes (lines that matter), installation view in the 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales,
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  Photograph: Jenni Carter
  

Ayreen Anastas
Born in Bethlehem, Palestine

Rene Gabri
Born in Tehran, Iran

Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri work together. Anastas writes in fragments, and makes films and videos. She is interested in philosophy, literature, the political and the everyday. Gabri is interested in the complex mechanisms that constitute the world. He works within the folds of cultural practice, social thought and politics. They are both involved in 16 Beaver (16beavergroup.org). They were commissioned to produce Camp Campaign – a 45-day journey across the United States in 2006 which attempted to address the internment camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by connecting it to various contemporary and historic sites of ‘juridical exception’ in the USA. For the Biennale, the artists proposed another trip, more speculative in its content. They have set themselves on the search for a possibility of revolution within Australia. Of course, this revolution may be unlike any we have known before.

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