O Frontier Vest foi criado no âmbito do projecto Liminal Spaces que reúne vários artistas e que tenta lutar contra barreiras culturais e segragação física e mental através do design e da arte, tendo como foco as fronteiras entre a Israel e a Palestina e todos os direitos que são comprometidos como resultado desses conflitos, pondo em risco o futuro dessas sociedades.
The Frontier Vest hybridizes different religious equipment and a contemporary vest design. This wearable prototype lends itself for different purposes, both sacred and secular. Pointing at the shared histories and belief systems of Judaism and Islam, the Frontier Vest can be transformed either into a tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl, or into an Islamic prayer rug. Both possibilities render very personal objects that devoted believers use in religious rituals. Originating in the nomadic life of Bedouins, and informed by the historic experience of exodus, the Frontier Vest also represents a minimal wear useful for a contemporary refugee. While the vest can be worn by both men and women, the equivalent use in Jewish and Islamic religious sermons is a task to be negotiated within the individual religious communities in the future.
While Judaism, Christianity and Islam share the belief in one God, belonging to one implies a level of exclusion from the others. Based on different religious practices, socio-psychological boundaries often generate spatial ones, which in turn reinforce these divisions further. The Frontier Vest allows for individual expressions of different belief systems. This individual wearable architecture can also be combined to generate a communal space. For this, it needs a congregation of minimally ten in Judaism (minyan), two in Islam (masjid) and three in Christianity. Yet more importantly, this individual territory can only become collective through overcoming the fear of the mutual otherness. [1]
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[1] http://www.azraaksamija.net/frontier-vest
[1] http://www.azraaksamija.net/frontier-vest
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