PARTICIPANT INC is pleased to present With the occasional rainbow visiting (3 channel video installation, color, sound, 40 minutes, 2008) by Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini. Through this complex video installation, Mocellin and Pellegrini create a thought-provoking reflection on living conditions in Palestine and Israel. Quoting different voices ranging from the Palestinian journalist Leila El Haddad, to the Israeli writer David Grossman and the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, together with other sources such as blogs, newspapers, magazine articles, and audio clips downloaded from the Internet, the artists construct an imaginary dialogue in which different points of view, cultures, and origins converge until they eventually overlap, displaying a shared existential condition. Themes of identity and relationships with others, which frequently occur in the work of the two artists, are addressed through the description of daily life in a situation of conflict. By imagining the idea of exile as an existential condition, Mocellin and Pellegrini have sought to explore the extent to which control and fear have changed our lives.

Sunday October 25, 7-9pm
Reception and book signing