Tamam Ya Fandem El Sakafat

Visiting the Xth Cairo International Biennial ...
In a place called "Kasr El Founoun" that, is not really a place to exhibit contemporary art but more likely the house of some rich gulf war oil dealer or Goha's house.
The Spanish pavilion as usual is well shown and the American one smells death after chaos.
A political discourse resembling the manifesta in the sense of colonial point of views infiltrating the official institutions.
It's really so cool dealing with political issues nowadays in art says POKA-YIO. But,The real tragedy is that in a project supposedly based on dialogue, interconnectedness, and exchange, nobody in the end is willing to listen to anybody else, says AUGUSTINE ZENAKOS about manifesta6.
While point of views over important real issues are being exhibited can hopefully, actively, affect people’s consciousness we do remain talking about micro-level effectiveness.
In general the gray colour is Cairo predominance, authorities trying to hold multiple sticks, all from the middle, taking no position except "tamam ya fandem el sakafat meya meya tamam" reflecting a police state institution and a government that takes part for control with no clear ideology except survival and continuity.
You can always look for a map or guide to visit the event, you will always find instead a bunch of ministry employees, all art school graduates, trying explain to you that if you do not get it, it is because you don't speak the local language.
Too bad they were fed art from bad copies and not from true sources.
In general it is absolutely impossible to function in Egyptian governmental structures and remain having a personal logical discourse and point of view*.
We have a role to play, even if we don't like it!
The roles available here are the under-developed or developing, pick and choose. (not to mention the regressivist role)
This is the soul of democracy in a society ruled by honor rather than by law. Or may be this is the soul of a broken down society ruled neither by honor nor by law.
Where else democracy will have proper funerals except in the great cemeteries, land of Egypt ?!