Date: September 23-27, 2012
Location: Alexandria, Egypt
Participant: Seif Eddine Jlassi
Description:
The Back Streets Festival, held from September 23 to 27, 2012, in Alexandria, Egypt, embodies the spirit of “Towards Art in Unconventional Places” .This dynamic festival showcases performances in the streets and open squares, making art accessible to all. Seif Eddine Jlassi participated in this vibrant celebration of street art, contributing to its mission of bringing creative expressions to unconventional public spaces.
It is a dance presentation of the reality of workers in particular and the popular class in general during the nineteenth century in Tunisia, where at that time, on the breath of the MEZWED (Tunisian bagpipe), a dancing body language spread among the popular community, represented by the emergence of expressive forms indicating resistance, rebellion, sensuality, temptation ...
Part of Common Ground Festival An exhibition by Seif Eddine Jlassi & Moussa Al Nanna An immersive exhibition that recreates the experience of a refugee camp by incorporating objects and materials commonly found in these harsh, temporary spaces that many call their homes. Featuring a collection of intricate plastic works and drawings created by children living in refugee camps on the Syrian border in southern Lebanon. The drawings offer glimpses into the displaced visions of their new homeland after the war, and how they remember it through drawings that are simple in form, but profound in content.