Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir
Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir (Extraterritoriality)
TRESPASSING
Ruti and Maayan will be arriving in Riga, London and Newcastle as visitors and as strangers. While in each of the towns, they will navigate their way into and around public and private events to which they haven’t been invited, making a film of their encounters and experiences as they go. TRESPASSING provokes questions around the thin lines, mostly outcomes of cultural constructions, between hospitality and trespassing.
In 2009 Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir initiated The Exterritory Project for which they won a UNESCO award for young artists in 2011. The Exterritory Project aims to articulate the notion of Extraterritoriality, a term coined in the end of the 18th century with two classic definitions: the first referring to being outside of the borders and laws of a state, and the second to being within the state but beyond its jurisdiction. Through experiments that take different forms and varied manifestations, they ask questions related to issues that the concept of Extraterritoriality evokes, such as nationalism, law, language, protest and what is being beyond jurisdiction.
