EMOTIONAL SEASONS 2010 experimentations with performance and new media art - a project series by ART IN PROCESS also includes

Christmas | Not quite kosher | Fool's Gold | OffSeason | Internal Room

ABOUT
The Cloned City developed through onsite explorations in New Dubai, one of the fastest growing City environments worldwide; confronted by utopian looking buildings and suburbs that seem to develop the Western Lifestyle to the extreme; controlling nature, man made islands for luxurious life style and comfort are set in contrast to the still existing old and historical rich City of Dubai.
Dubai houses numerous immigrants from countries that suffer from poverty. These people come here to work, trying to save their earned money to go back home one day. Because of high rents they are often urged to live together with others, in overcrowded houses/places and many of them in tents or self-made tin sheds on roofs.
Another problematic aspect of Dubai concerns the Emirati people themselves and the preservation of their own cultural identity and language within their families and greater community. English has become their main conversational language and many traditions are threatened to disappear through the aim to accommodate totally to Western lifestyle.

Many questions about identity, belonging and human/cultural diverse individuality arise in this context and are addressed in The Cloned City, which can easily be linked to the previous developed video and sound installation called Identical City in 2003.