combustion

vicemart 

stolen innocence

naturalizing capitalism 

dissociative

filthy green

dysfunctional  

regurgitating imported vomit

toy soldiers

The “I”

choices. choiceless.

parasite

sour milk from the udder

An exhibition by Typism (Michael Schinkoethe), Akut (Falk Lehmann), and Ahmad Sabbagh, from Blouzaat, Expired is the culmination of the artists’ cross cultural visual dialogue, exploring the innermost, basic human faults and vices, shared by all of humanity across the globe. This is the artists’ definition of the dying infant world of today.

The opening is on Tuesday, April 14, 2009

6pm - 8pm

The exhibition will run until Thursday, July 16, 2009

Thanks to the Goethe Institute

A group of artists from diverse backgrounds decided to fuse together to leave a trace of themselves, get all covered in paint, get markers, pencils, cutters, spray cans all over the place and reproduce themselves into anything at all!

Opening show at Makan on Sunday, December 28, at 6:30 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC ACTS:
Hot shit from Ramalla, EP at 7:30 p.m.
And tight German panties, Lilabungalow at 9:00 p.m.

PARTICIPANTS:

Zeina Azouqa
Nada Jaffal
Ahmad Ja’abari
Nour Bishouty
Zina Shihabi
Zolfa Kalaf
Patrick Foellmer
Mohamad Sabbagh

The exhibition is on at Makan from the 4th till the 8th of January 2009
(Opening hours from 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.)

In the jolly spirit of Christmas, Blouzaat will open its doors on December 22, 23, and 24th, from 7pm-9:30pm, for those late christmas shoppers.
We Will be offering a special christmas 20% discount on those dates to all purchases from our store (online store purchases not included in the discount).

Merry Christmass and happy new years.

will be held in broken english with german accent !

You ever heard of the ” BAUHAUS” ? forget about it , you can spit on my degree!

TIME AND DATE:
19.12.–24.12.
from 6.00 – 10.00 PM

EXHIBITION: 28.12

VENUE:
Makan
www.makanhouse.net

TRAINER:
Michael “TYPISM”, from Blouzaat Urban Art

DESCRIPTION:
This art workshop is all about manually produced art, I will ask all of you to choose their own mediums and projects, be it graffiti, animation, posters… anything you want to do as long as no computers are involved!

The workshop will last at least four hours a day, but for those who are intent on giving me a stroke, the night is long and we’re all young.. who needs sleep anyway? those of you who manage to drive me insane, make me throw up or make me feel like giving up and going home, will earn my deepest respect. I want us all to come through this workshop surprised and a little schitzo, and hopefully in one piece.

Unfortunately, this workshop will not be for free. There will be a participation fee, to be announced shortly.

MAIN GOALS
combining different techniques, even those that don´t match, sharing knowledge and skills, forming teams coming up with things you have never dreamt off or not!

POSSIBILITIES:
Composition
Type design
Urban technics
Illustration

Bring whatever tools that suit your ideas… for instance:
stencil, sticker, marker, ink, knife, scissor, brushes, linoleum tools, spray cans, color (whatever you have in mind, anything that smears, marks, or drips), cameras, (which can be used for stop motion animation, for example)

RESULTS:
each one of you has to come up with an idea, which i will help develop and make presentable to an audience. We may also form small groups that put all their efforts and skills together into one big THING, whatever that thing might be.

An exhibition will be held on the 28th of December displaying all the artwork and projects created during the workshop, with live performance by a german musician “lilabungalow”.

Poster for the exhibition: this must be done before christmas, which means extra work for whoever likes to work even closer with me, please decide after I have introduced myself.

If interested, please contact info@blouzaat.com. Please send your contact information as well as small portfolio or samples of your work. The artwork could be fully developed pieces, sketches or art-in-the-making.

But, we all know that your brain is in for a rough ride yet. Tell it to go stuff it and wait till you’re 80, then it can go and take its day off.

That said, globalization, digitization and multiple personality disorders in tow, we bring you Blouzaat’s digital store (evil, EVIL grin). Blouzaat’s first limited collection is now available for direct sale via our brand new online system, many thanks to our media designer friend, Ibrahim Owais, for creating a fantastic, user friendly system that lets you choose from different cuts (Female or Unisex), decide on a color from our palette, and pick whatever design you like, and then get it shipped directly to your doorstep. This service is only available for outside Jordan for now, For those interested in making a purchase from Blouzaat in Jordan, you will have to do it the old fashioned way. you can visit our shop or contact us for more information.

Tell your brain you’d get it a brand new T if it keeps quiet.

Blouzaat gives you one such wily individual, in a one-man-exhibition right in our own store. Omar Zo’bi [from Fann 3arabi and Daftar Tajreebi] will be showcasing some original artwork in his exhibition, Socially Murdered.

check out Omar’s online projects at:

Fann 3arabi - Featuring Arab art, artists, art websites, events and more

Daftar Tajreebi - an experimental art/design platform

We’ll let Omar tell you  the story of “Socially murdered” in his own words:

They are people that you either ignore in the street for not being visually pleasing, or would be the centre of your gossip for the day because they’re just “weird”. Ones that are not very familiar with fitting in the society as well as you do, and find comfort in strange situations and habits

They’re introverts by nature, and ones that do not conform to the common beauty standards. They have been judged by their looks and had stories made up about them. We’re not asking you to love them, but possibly re-consider the difference and look deeper to find some sort of a common human identity.

Anyway, they’re visiting Amman, on canvas.

They will be part of the first art exhibition of Omar Al-Zo’bi  which will be taking place in Blouzaat - Jabal Amman, on the 31st of August, 2008 at 7:30 PM.

Watch out for Abu Shanab Monster!

Our exhibition explored the past and the future of Blouzaat, all at once. This was a great opportunity to present the next generation of Blouzaat, our first work born out of our cross cultural dialogue concept. Those artworks, a cooperation between Ahmad Sabbagh and our friend “Keos”, dealt directly with the “wall”. The wall concerns Germans as well as Palestinians, but it’s also a global issue, affecting all nationalities, and all races. Fortunately the wall in Germany no longer exists, but there is yet one left to tear down. Walls of insecurity and fear, of oppression and segregation, can not be allowed to exist.

Spacial thanks to our friend Hussein Alazaat for the wicked calligraphy work.

check out images of the book below,

The images are all uploaded in our collections page for all of you who couldn’t or hadn’t had the chance to visit the shop themselves, you can see all of our designs right there on the t-shirts..a little visual treat for sore eyes.

Blouzaat first collection 2007