selected projects
Toleen Touq
October 15, 2009 at makan

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August 15, 2009 at Makan, Ruwwad

Videovoice is a video production workshop that will create a space in which youth interested in art and video collaborate with practicing artists to create video works that address the health concerns of the participants.

Artist Samah Hijjawi
May 19, 2009 at various locations

‘Where are the Arabs?’ is a project that investigates the Arab identity and the publics approach to the notion of Arab Unity.

Yousef Kawar
May 4, 2009 at Makan

 

By artist : Yasmeen Ayyashi
April 29, 2009 at Reborn Abandoned Factory

a solo exhibit by Yasmeen Ayyashi exploring the form, or formlessness of an identity. an installation comprised of print, sculpture and sound allowing the audience to interact with the various conceptual parts.

initiated by Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh and Simon Lourié
April 14, 2009 at Makan - Amman / Husun Camp

The ongoing project “A Photographic Conversation from Burj al-Shamali Camp” was an open-ended exchange on the visual memory of the Burj al-Shamali Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

Artist Rusaila Bazlamit
March 22, 2009 at Makan

Who am I?

The twist in the answers to that basic question, since projected images, sounds and gestures took over our lives, is what this

Su Tomesen
February 22, 2009 at Makan

The exhibition presents works inspired by Su Tomesen’s residency period in Amman exploring concepts such as identity and belonging within the local context. Although three months is a short period of time, the artist had the chance to live in Amman, walk its streets, meet people and share their personal stories.

An installation by Raed Ibrahim
January 18, 2009 at Makan

 The problem-remedy-solution was a three part formula lacking in realism. However, if we imagined a pill to solve each of our problems then life would be better.

 

From: December 9, 2009 To: December 9, 2009

 

 

The Gas Car Project" is A public intervention in which the melody of 340 gas cars was temporarily replaced for several days between the 6-11 December 2009 in the city of Amman.

From: November 26, 2009 To: December 8, 2009

Makan was transformed, it was not the art space people have been used to, but it was conspicuously acting  as the neighborhood's sound station for a few weeks.

From: November 16, 2009 To: November 16, 2009

 

The Film-makers:
David Blandy
(London/GB)
Ulu Braun & Alexej Tchernyi
(Berlin/GER)
BBB Johannes Deimling
(Berlin/ GER)
Lassi Markus King
(Helsinki/FI)
Sari Kivinen
(Helsinki/FI)
Marko Maetamm
(Tallinn/ EST)
Jussi Matilainen
(Pori/FI)
Karolina Raczynski
(London/GB)
Gertrud Schweers
(Dortmund/GER)
Tobias Yves Zintel
(Berlin/ GER)

From: August 25, 2009 To: August 26, 2009
Interruptions held over the past week a multi-disciplinary design 'mission' titled [CATS: The Workshop]
: an attempt to identify 'cats' as clients and work on collaborative ideas on how to reform the city to match cats' needs, requirement and affiliations.

Catatonia, the little city designed for cats located at Paris Circle was presented through a rough (work-in-progress) exhibition as ideas radically visualized on their way to physical interventions at a later stage.
From: August 9, 2009 To: August 9, 2009

Makan invited the public to an open studio to meet the summer residency program participants and to view their ideas and works in progress. The residency was two fold, the first brought together young people active in the arts, they were offered work spaces in Makan for the duration of July.

From: July 17, 2009 To: July 17, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

From: June 13, 2009 To: June 29, 2009

video production workshop that will create a space in which youth interested in art and video collaborate with practicing artists to create video works that address the health concerns of the participants.  By empowering youth, building capacity within the community and promoting self-expression and communication, we aim to create a p

From: May 6, 2009 To: May 6, 2009

Super hero arrived to Jordan sometime in March. As always, his arrival was fuss free; he landed under a big clock tower in the middle of city, found himself a bed in Makan’s residency studio overlooking the Citadel. After a good night’s sleep, equipped with argeileh smoke and on a sugar high after consuming some of the best known desserts of the city, the Super Hero embarked on his special mission, several heroic missions in fact.

From: April 14, 2009 To: April 30, 2009

Amman(Makan)

From: April 26, 2009 To: April 26, 2009

From: March 31, 2009 To: March 31, 2009

 

 

From: March 22, 2009 To: March 26, 2009

 

 

Opening Sunday, 22/3/2009

Time : 6.30 pm

From: February 22, 2009 To: March 5, 2009

 

Opening Sunday, 22/2/2009