DJANNAT AL-ARD / PARADISE ON Earth came into being between april and may 2011 during a residency in Damascus. The original plan for the stay was to collaborate in a workshop with Syrian artists under direction of AllArtNow, an independent organization for contemporary art in Damascus. Due to the increasing political tensions in the country and the more and more insisting calls on the streets for radical changes answered by violence it was inconceivable to follow the planned project.
Damascus is also known as 'Paradise on Earth'. The beauty of this paradise is rapidly decomposing into the dust of past and present. The Project 'Djannat al- Ard | Paradise on Earth' came as a direct response to the crisis. A documentation and the diary of a journey on an unknown territory can be downloaded as a PDF_file in german language.