Archive for April, 2007
Strange Alchemy: devising a language to make art from war in Lebanon - Daily Star review of VideoAvril
Lebanese-English language newspaper the Daily Star published a review of a selection of videos shown during the Video Avril festival 11-15 April 2007 in Beirut.
The article focuses on the use of video by Lebanese artists to subvert the prevailing narratives of war in their “struggle for an aesthetic language to express this war”. Ali […]
VidéoAvril
The VidéoAvril festival (12 – 15 April 2007) was a public event which screened 26 new video productions by Lebanese artists in Beirut. Organised by Ashkal Alwan, many of the presented videos were responses to the recent tumult of Lebanon, shown through artistic voices that stand apart from media representations. The VidéoAvril festival […]
Workshop in Lisbon “it will be what we make it | será o que fizermos”
From 12 November till 2 December 2007, Alkantara and ALMOSTREAL co-develop the project “it will be what we make it | será o que fizermos” in Lisbon, Portugal.
The workshop will involve the participation of 11 artists, theoreticians and programmers of different geographic, cultural and disciplinary backgrounds to come together and create a temporary platform for […]
ALMOSTREAL at the American University Paris, 11 April 2007
On Wednesday April 11, ECF arts programme officer Igor Dobricic spoke about ALMOSTREAL as part of the International Communications Department at the American University Paris (www.aup.fr). This presentation of ALMOSTREAL as a research and support project for collaborative artistic practice in Europe is held in the framework of International Communications and the module “Cultural Dimensions […]