Alduwara is the name of the Arab / Palestinian village that lived in the heart of the Hula Valley until 1948. The population of the village of Alduwara numbered about 800 people, most of them land tenants, who were engaged in agriculture.

Kibbutz Amir, where I was born, the last kibbutz of Homa Vemigdal (Wall and Tower), was founded in 1939, in the neighborhood of the village of Alduwara. From 1939 to 1948, the residents of the kibbutz lived in the neighborhood with the residents of the village of Alduwara. In May 1948, the village was destroyed, and later its lands became the lands of the kibbutz's fish ponds.

The project, Alduwara Channel deals with different levels of memory. As a child growing up in Kibbutz Amir, the name Alduwara was part of a vague collective memory of something that was and is gone. Of a family story of this kind - that everyone knows exists but is not talked about.
I wanted to do some broadcasting ... I found a monitor that interested me, which looked like a security room monitor, small like this, nine inches, pragmatic in shape. I decided to "produce" a series of broadcasts from the village near Kibbutz Amir, as a kind of memory practice, which blurs the separation between the collective and the private.

In memory of Inbal Perlson

 

Alduwara channel, mold casting, printing and glazing. Height: 21 cm. Photos: Ilan Amihai