Eric Gottesman presents \ from baalu Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 55 sec
✓ Published: 27-Sep-2016

Description:
The Oromaye Project creates space for civic dialogue through the collective visual adaptation of a controversial Amharic novel, Baalu Girma’s Oromaye, and a transnational participatory public photography project. Using the novel as an anthropological, literary and artistic tool, Gottesman will engage people in Ethiopia and Eritrea—where Girma lived, wrote and was last seen—in public readings of his novel and in making photographs that address his legacy and the state of public expression a