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A Rock and a Hard Place will consist of a historical prologue (prodrome) at the Casa Bianca, a rehearsal for a 鈥渇uturistic pluralism鈥� at the Alatza Imaret and a polyphony that references the multiple lives of Yeni Djami.

Casa Bianca will be turned into a house for reflection and for conversation: a salon which lifetime spans from the period of its construction until our present day. It will be a place where the history of Thessaloniki will have a bearing and will usher a number of contemporary works that examine the tradition of writing and of narrative in literature: an 鈥渋deal library鈥� for artists and visitors alike.

 Alatza Imaret will be re-transformed to a colorful 鈥渉ostel鈥�, as its name indicates (alatza means colorful, and Imaret means house of the poor): A place where a variety of voices-even conflicting ones -will coincide vivaciously , eliminating ostensible discrepancies. The city 鈥榮 hybrid past will resonate through a number of contemporary works. A backyard of relief, Alatza Imaret will grow to be  a rehearsal for meaningful conviviality  for both the artists and the visitors .

The Yeni Djami will become an anachronistic space where several site-specific artist interventions will create a poetical polyphony where different periods of the city of Thessaloniki - which can all be seen referenced in the Yeni Djami today - will simultaneously resound: Spanish, Moorish, Islamic, Turkish, Ottoman, Jewish鈥�

These three exhibitions will form the heart of the Main Programme, which will also include displays  in the five collaborating museums, installations in a number of Islamic monuments, and an information centre that will be an integral part of the exhibition. In addition, a series of performances and interactions will address cultural and popular issues in the Mediterranean area and several artist interventions will link up the buildings that form the constellation of the different parts of the Biennale.