Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge No 12 “On Invisible, Unknown and Ghostly Knowledge” An installation with 100 experts by Hannah Hurtzig/Mobile Academy Saturday, 26th of September, 2009 , 19:00-23:00 @ The Jewish-Arabic Center in Jaffa At the Blackmarket you can choose from 100 experts of various fields, and for only 5 NIS you will be offered a portion of their knowledge that can be narrated in 30 minutes. You may also, of course, just listen to the conversations via headphones, for free. The event imitates well known places of knowledge transfer such as archives and reading rooms and combines them with situations of communication which are familiar from the stock exchange and counseling sessions. The Blackmarket is an alternative model of knowledge transfer popular and wise, social and glamorous, noninstitutional and wild. Invisibility and ghostliness is used in this Blackmarket as a metaphor for specific people, ideologies, utopian ideas, ways of living, whose representation is denied or not authorized. The ghostly reality is a result of the denial or refusal to give language or a voice to something and it is the moment where the borders between what has been approved as real is set in contrast to the phantasm. The ghostly makes the in-between appear, it is a rupture in order that allows for a consciousness of borders, exclusions and suppression. The Blackmarket will bring to light cultural, economic, social and political models that we have forgotten …