ארמון הקתרזיס

"Once there was a palace, standing alone and proud on the crest of a hill. It had been built to be the residence of a great king, but the king never came. War came instead. Borders were drawn, and from them rose a wall until it concealed the horizon. For sixty years the palace stood in silence, until one day the wall finally collapsed and the horizon opened again. Through the ruins came the young: colorful, strange — artists, in a word. They found in the palace a home, a roof for their rebellion, and began to build a new world from whatever they found there: fragments of concrete, nets, cables, fabrics, and remnants of the wall. And so the place became a home, and they called it 'The Catharsis'." The project proposes a utopian future for the abandoned King Hussein Palace at Tel al-Ful, in northeastern Jerusalem. In a place where borders, separation, and tension had accumulated for decades, it imagines a space in which tension is not suppressed, but transformed into a material for action. The palace becomes a club and an artistic space, built and continually transformed through its use. Music and sound move through its spaces; workshops produce and dismantle materials; gardens grow from water infrastructures; and different spaces allow movement between introspection and eruption, between individual action and collective experience.