Please find below the programme for Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices, taking place in Beirut from April 12 to April 20, 2008.
Venues: Masrah Al Madina (MM) – Cinema Metropolis (CM) – Sfeir Semler Gallery (SS) – Planet Discovery (PD) – Estral Center (EST) – Agial Art Gallery (AG) – Saint Joseph Church Crypt (SJC) – Bernard Khoury Ateliers (BK).
- There might be some changes to the schedule. Please check our website regularly for updates.
- The videos presented will be screened twice, once in Masrah al Madina (Big Theater) and once in Cinema Metropolis. Dates will be posted on our website soon.
- The performance Nusch by Tg STAN and Rosas has the limited capacity of 28 audience members per performance. In order to make reservations, call Masrah Al Madina on +961 1 753010/11. You can reserve starting April 9, 2008.
- All lectures and panel discussions will be simultaneously translated to Arabic and English when appropriate.
Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices is supported by the Ford Foundation, Foundation Open Society Institute, Heinrich Böll Foundation, and British Council Lebanon.
Partners to the project: Masrah Al Madina, Cinema Metropolis, Agial Art Gallery , and Gallery Sfeir Semler.
Those of you who plan to attend the forum, kindly register at info@ashkalalwan.org.
Attendance is open to all and free of charge.
Exhibitions will run as follows:
Sfeir-Semler Gallery: April 12 to May 31, 2008
Masrah al Madina: April 12 to April 20, 2008
Agial Art Gallery : April 12 to April 20, 2008
Planet Discovery: April 12 to May 1, 2008
Estral Center: April 12 to April 20, 2008
Programme
SATURDAY APRIL 12
Exhibition Openings:
11am – 7pm
Recomposing Desire , Wallpaper by Stephen Wright (MM)
Minor Art: Conceptual Film and Video Posters by Jalal Toufic (SS)
Material for a Film by Emily Jacir (SS)
To Bring Down a House by Vlatka Horvat and Tim Etchells (SS)
The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist by Michael Rakowitz (SS)
Spectre by Marwan Rechmaoui (SS)
AlBum by Kamal Al Jafari (SS)
Rythm by Ziad Antar (SS)
Signs of Conflict: Political Posters of Lebanon ’s Civil War (1975 – 1990) by Zeina Maasri (PD). Exhibition opens at 4pm.
United States of Palestine Airlines by Khalil Rabah (EST)
Khiam 1999 - 2007 by Joana Hadji-Thomas & Khalil Joreige (AG)
On Learning to See Less ; a Poster by Walid Sadek (MM, SS, AG)
8:30pm – 9:30pm (MM)
Once , a performance by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
SUNDAY APRIL 13
11am – 1pm (MM)
Video Screenings:
Boumont by Emre Huner (2006)
Merely a Smell by Maher Abi Samra (2007)
[Posthume ] by Ghassan Salhab (2007)
Break
Panoptikon by Emre Huner (2005)
I Had a Dream, Mom… by Lina Saneh (2006)
3pm – 4:30pm (MM)
Israel's Sexual Image in the Arab Imaginary , a lecture by Najwan Darwish
5pm – 5:30pm (MM)
Terror Unleashed , a video by Roy Samaha (2007)
6pm – 9pm (MM)
Why Do We Kill Ourselves? A Reading in Suicide Missions, a panel including Hazem Saghieh, Wisaam Saadeh, Houssam Itani, Hazem Al Amin, Bashar Haydar,
and Rabih Mroué
9:30 – 10pm (MM)
Frequency 19 Hertz , a performance by Rima Kaddissi
8:30pm – 9:20pm (SJC)
Nusch , a performance by Tg STAN & Rosas
MONDAY APRIL 14
6pm – 7:30pm (MM)
Working in the Private Sphere , a lecture by Bernard Khoury
8pm – 9:30pm (MM)
The Eighth Day:
God Created The World In Seven Days. This Is The Eighth Day .
A lecture by Tony Chakar
10pm – 10:45pm (MM)
Yesterday’s Man , a performance by Tiago Rodrigues
8:30pm – 9:20pm (SJC)
Nusch , a performance by Tg STAN & Rosas
TUESDAY APRIL 15
6pm – 7:30pm (MM)
Usurping History: Iraqi Art, Monuments and Artists , a lecture by Nada Shabout
8pm -9:30pm (MM)
History of Photography in Iran at a Glance , a lecture by Bahman Jalali and Rana Javadi
10pm – 11pm (MM)
How Nancy Wished that It Was All an April Fool’s Joke , a performance by Rabih Mroué
8:30pm – 9:20pm (SJC)
Nusch , a performance by Tg STAN & Rosas
WEDNESDAY APRIL 16
4pm – 5:30pm (MM)
Video Screenings:
Call Center by Mohammed Hammad (2006)
Death Kit Train (2006) – Somebody Else's Car (2005) – I Wonder What's Going on Upstairs (2005) by Ahmet Ogut
We Will Live to See These Things (2007) by Julia Meltzer and David Thorne
6pm – 7:30pm (MM)
Religious Symbolism in the Arab Culture , a lecture by Faleh Abdul Jabar
8pm – 9:30pm (MM)
The Death of Politics? Human Rights, New Public Spheres, and the Jihad
A lecture by Thomas Keenan
10pm – 11:40pm (MM)
Let It Be ; a film and video programme curated by Akram Zaatari:
Part 1/ A: Plastic Modelling
Call Roger by Rodney Werden (1975)
Tiger Licking Girl’s Butt by Nathalie Djurberg (2004)
Forced Inanimate Connection: Climax Modelling by Sterling Ruby (2002)
Kangaroo by Pierre-Yves Clouin (1998)
“C’est mignon tout Ca ” by Pierrick Sorin (1993)
Les Ciseaux by Mounir Fatmi (2003)
Couch by Hans Peter Ammann (1994)
Break
Part 1/ B: Meetings and Partings
Gender Trouble by Tom de Pekin (2005)
The Brain. Pine Pong by Tom de Pekin (2003)
Smoke Rings by Ian Jarvis (2002)
Gay? by Jean Gabriel Periot (2000)
The Blue Hour by John Lindell (1993)
Confirmed Bachelor by Tom Kalin (1994)
These Meetings, These Partings… by Tom Kalin (1991)
8:30pm (SJC)
Nusch , a performance by Tg Stan & Rosas
THURSDAY APRIL 17
6pm – 7:30pm (MM)
The Cairo Underground: The City’s Metallic Womb or the Home of its Communicating Mirrors , a lecture by Hany Darwish
8pm – 8:40pm (MM)
Véronique Doisneau 2004 , a film by Jérôme Bel & Pierre Dupouey
9pm – 10:45pm (MM)
Pichet Klunchun and Myself , a performance by Jérôme Bel and Pichet Klunchun
FRIDAY APRIL 18
4pm – 5:30pm (MM)
Videos Screenings
After Life by Anjalika Sagar (2007)
Break
I, Soldier by Koken Ergun (2005)
The Flag by Koken Ergun (2006)
The Sea Is a Stereo by Mounira Al Solh (2007)
6pm- 7:30pm (MM)
Artist talk by Michael Rakowitz
8pm – 9:30pm (CM)
I AM NOT WHAT I AM , an artist talk by Hassan Khan
10:30pm – 11:30pm (BK)
Let It Be part 2 , a film and video programme curated by Akram Zaatari
Masturbating in Fatherland by Naufus Figuera (2007)
Handy Man by Nelson Henricks (1999)
7121 Images du sexe d’un autre by Laeticia Bourget (2001)
Lovers by Jean Gabriel Periot (2004)
Rain / une reverie aquatique by Jean Gabriel Periot (2004)
Watch Out for the North Dakota by John Lindell (1993)
Cul en l’air by Pierre-Yves Clouin (1997)
Point P by Pierre-Yves Clouin (2000)
My Hands Are Shaking by Pierre-Yves Clouin (2001)
SATURDAY APRIL 19
11am – 1pm (MM)
Video Screenings
A Journey by Lamia Joreige (2006)
Break
Two films by Bahman Jalali
POW 57187 by Vahid Zara Zade (2007)
3pm – 4pm (MM)
Daney / Sanbar: Conversation Nord - Sud , a film by Simone Bitton & Catherine Poitevin (1992)
4:30 - 6pm (MM)
Decolonizing Architecture: Reorienting Israel ’s Architecture of Occupation , a lecture by Alessandro Petti
5pm – 6:30pm (CM)
I AM NOT WHAT I AM , an artist talk by Hassan Khan
6:30pm – 8pm (MM)
A lecture by Elias Sanbar
8:30pm (MM)
Let It Be part 3 , a film and video programme curated by Akram Zaatari:
The work of William E. Jones:
Mansfield (2006)
Film Montages (2006)
More British Sounds (2006)
The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay pornography (1998)
V.O. (2006)
[The screening will be followed by a panel discussion between William Jones, Hannah Feldman, Stuart Comer, and Akram Zaatari.]
SUNDAY APRIL 20
3pm – 4:30pm (MM)
An Ungrateful Death: Al Karam in the Age of Withdrawal , an artist talk by Mireille Astore
5pm – 6pm (MM)
What Everybody Knows , a video by Ayreen Anastas & René Gabri
6 pm – 7pm (MM)
And Yet Everything Continues As Before
A public conversation between TJ Demos, Ayreen Anastas, and René Gabri
7:30pm – 9pm (MM)
Escape the Overcode , a lecture by Brian Holmes
