Archive for May, 2009
Setting out on a journey to uncover the European Cultural Foundation’s funding policies and ending up in a dunghill…
Artist duo Goldin + Senneby are researching and setting out on an artistic expedition to uncover the European Cultural Foundation’s funding policies and, more widely, the cultural fundingscapes of Europe. Their proposed work consists of an allegorical investigation into the current climate and dynamics of European cultural funding. The performative journey is both a literal […]
When No Body’s Around (The Cables between us)
A sound installation and musical piece for 8 electric guitars with no performers by Charbel Haber
2007-2008.
A support system in the absence of the living. A mechanical robot in it’s most primitive form. A device with the sole purpose of maintaining a hoax: the illusion that this city is inhabited. Everyone left. Cooks, crooks, lovers, […]
Octophonic diary
8-channel sound installation by Cynthia Zaven
26 min. 2007-2008.
We used to play music in shelters. Get vinyls from abroad whenever we got the chance. If found in local stores, M. would break those same records so we’d exclusively own them… This was 1985. If the whole country was going to hell, our music was not […]
The Sea Is A Stereo
Photographic and video Installation by Mounira Al Solh
2007-ongoing
The Sea Is A Stereo is an ongoing series of reflections on a group of men who swim everyday at the beach in Beirut no matter the circumstances: rain, wind, war. Even as we read this, these men may be swimming or preparing themselves to do so. The […]
Ashoura - Untitled
Video installation by Kinda Hassan
This project is an attempt to sneak into the individual dimension of the day of Ashoura (Islamic day of mourning): where History and Ideology give way to the body, to the interaction between individuals and to the seduction that takes place in every mass gathering. During Ashoura, Nabatieh becomes a space […]
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4 is an exhibition at the Beirut Arts Center, opening Tuesday 21 April 2009 (6-9pm), featuring sound and installation works by Charbel Haber When No Body’s Around (The Cables between us). Kinda Hassan Ashoura Untitled. Mounira Al Solh The Sea Is A Stereo. Cynthia Zaven Octophonic Diary. Curated by Tarek Atoui.
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