Exhibitions
Sfeir - Semler Gallery : April 12th - May 31st, 2008 / 11am - 7pm. Closes on Sundays and Mondays. Opens exceptionally on Monday April 14th.
Agial Art Gallery: April 12th - April 20th, 2008 / 11am - 7pm daily.
Planet Discovery Exhibition Hall: April 12th - May 1st, 2008 / 10am - 7pm. Closes on Sundays.
Estral Center: April 12- April 20, 2008 / 11am - 7pm daily.
Program
SATURDAY APRIL 12
Exhibition Openings
Sfeir-Semler Gallery / 11am - 7pm
AlBum - Kamal Aljafari
Rythm - Ziad Antar
To Bring Down a House - Vlatka Horvat and Tim Etchells
Material for a Film - Emily Jacir
The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist - Michael Rakowitz
Spectre - Marwan Rechmaoui
Minor Art: Conceptual Posters and Book Covers - Jalal Toufic
On Learning to See Less - Walid Sadek
Agial Art Gallery / 11am - 7pm
Back to the Present - Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Bent Jbeil - Wael Shawky
Estral Center / 11am - 7pm
United States of Palestine Airlines - Khalil Rabah
Planet Discovery Exhibition Hall / 4pm - 7pm
Signs of Conflict: Political Posters of Lebanon’s Civil War (1975 – 1990) - Zeina Maasri
Masrah Al Madina / 8:30pm – 9:30pm (Dance)
Once - Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker / Rosas
SUNDAY APRIL 13
Masrah Al Madina
11am - 10:30pm
Nuha Al Radi Hall is open (until April 20th, 2008)
Launch of Home Works III: A Forum on Cultural Practices - Ashkal Alwan
On Learning to See Less - Walid Sadek (poster)
Recomposing Desire - Stephen Wright and Natasa Ilic (wallpaper map)
Masrah Al Madina
11am – 11:50pm (Video screenings)
Days of Blood, Days of Fire, 1978-1979 - Photo Projection - Bahman Jalali and Rana Javadi / 12’
Khoramshahr, a city that was destroyed (1980 - 1982) - Photographic Report - Bahman Jalali / 12’
Boumont - Emre Hüner / 14’
Merely a Smell - Maher Abi Samra / 10’ / Arabic with English subtitles
12:00pm - 1pm (Video screenings)
Panoptikon - Emre Hüner / 11’
I Had a Dream, Mom… - Lina Saneh / 45’ / Arabic with English subtitles
3pm - 4:30pm (Lecture)
The Sexualised Image of Israel in the Arab Imaginary - Najwan Darwish
5pm – 5:30pm (Video screening)
Terror Unleashed - Roy Samaha / 32’ / Arabic with English subtitles
6pm – 9pm (Panel)
Why Do We Kill Ourselves? A Reading of Suicide Missions
Moderated by Hazem Saghieh with Wissam Saadeh, Houssam Itani, Hazem Al Amin, Bashar Haydar, and Rabih Mroué
9:30 – 10pm (Performance)
Frequency 19 Hertz - Rima Kaddissi
Saint Joseph Church Crypt
8:30pm – 9:20pm (Performance)
Nusch - Tg STAN and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
MONDAY APRIL 14
Metropolis Cinema
4pm - 5:30pm (Video screenings)
Boumont - Emre Huner / 14’
Panoptikon - Emre Huner / 11’18’’
Terror Unleashed - Roy Samaha / 32’ / Arabic with English subtitles
Masrah Al Madina
6pm – 7:30pm (Lecture)
Working in the Private Sphere - Bernard Khoury
8pm – 9:30pm (Lecture)
The Eighth Day.
God Created The World In Seven Days. This Is The Eighth Day - Tony Chakar
10pm – 10:45pm (Performance)
Yesterday’s Man - Tiago Rodrigues, Tony Chakar, and Rabih Mroué. Performed by Tiago Rodrigues
Saint Joseph Church Crypt
8:30pm – 9:20pm (Performance)
Nusch - Tg STAN and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
TUESDAY APRIL 15
Masrah Al Madina
6pm – 7:30pm (Lecture)
Usurping History: Iraqi Art, Monuments and Artists - Nada Shabout
8pm -9:30pm (Lecture)
History of Photography in Iran at a Glance - Bahman Jalali and Rana Javadi
10pm – 11pm (Performance)
How Nancy Wished that Everything Was an April Fool’s Joke - Rabih Mroué
Saint Joseph Church Crypt
8:30pm – 9:20pm (Performance)
Nusch - Tg STAN and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
WEDNESDAY APRIL 16
Masrah Al Madina
4pm – 5:30pm (Video screenings)
Call Center - Mohammed Hammad / 18' / Arabic with English subtitles
Death Kit Train / 2’ – Somebody Else's Car / 45’’ – I Wonder What's Going on Upstairs / 10’30’’ - Ahmet Ogüt
We Will Live to See These Things, Or, Five Picture of What May Come to Pass - Julia Meltzer and David Thorne / 47’ / Arabic with English subtitles
6pm – 7:30pm (Artist talk)
Three Projects - Michael Rakowitz
8pm – 9:30pm (Lecture)
Where Are Human Rights? Reading a Communique from Iraq
- Thomas Keenan
10pm – 11:40pm (Film and video programme curated by Akram Zaatari)
Let It Be, part 1
Part 1/ A: "Plastic Modelling" (49')
Part 1/ B: "Meetings and Partings" (24')
Saint Joseph Church Crypt
8:30pm – 9:20pm (Performance)
Nusch - Tg STAN and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
THURSDAY APRIL 17
Metropolis Cinema
4pm - 5:30pm (Video screenings)
Call Center - Mohammed Hammad / 18' / Arabic with English subtitles
Death Kit Train / 2’ – Somebody Else's Car / 45’’ – I Wonder What's Going on Upstairs / 10’30’’ - Ahmet Ogüt
We Will Live to See These Things, Or, Five Picture of What May Come to Pass - Julia Meltzer and David Thorne / 47’ / Arabic with English subtitles
Masrah Al Madina
6pm – 7:30pm (Lecture)
The Cairo Underground: The City’s Metallic Womb or the Home of its Communicating Mirrors - Hany Darwish
8pm – 8:40pm (Video screening)
Véronique Doisneau - Jérôme Bel & Pierre Dupouey / 37’ / French with English subtitles
9pm – 10:45pm (Performance)
Pichet Klunchun and Myself - Jérôme Bel and Pichet Klunchun
FRIDAY APRIL 18
Masrah Al Madina
4pm – 5pm (Video screening)
Nervus Rerum - Otolith Group / 60’ / Arabic with English subtitles
5:10pm - 5:50pm (Video screenings)
I, Soldier - Koken Ergun / 7'14''/ Turkish with English subtitles
The Flag / Bayrak - Koken Ergun / 19'/ Turkish with English subtitles
The Sea Is a Stereo - Mounira Al Solh / 13' / Arabic with English subtitles
6pm - 7:30pm (Lecture)
Religious Symbolism, the Sacred Empire, and the Modern Nation State - Faleh Abdul Jabar
Metropolis Cinema
8pm - 9:30pm (Artist talk)
I AM NOT WHAT I AM - Hassan Khan
Bernard Khoury Architecture Studio
10:30pm – 11:30pm (Film and video programme curated by Akram Zaatari)
Let It Be, part 2
SATURDAY APRIL 19
Masrah Al Madina
11am – 11:45am (Video screening)
A Journey - Lamia Joreige / 41’ / French & Arabic with English subtitles
12:00 - 12:40pm (Video screenings)
La Traverse - Sirine Fattouh / 10’30’’
POW 57187 - Vahid Zara Zade / 29’ / Arabic & Persian with English subtitles
(Posthume) - Ghassan Salhab / 28’ / Arabic with English subtitles
3pm – 4pm (Film screening)
Daney / Sanbar: Conversation Nord - Sud - Simone Bitton and Catherine Poitevin / 47’ / French with Arabic subtitles
4:30 - 6pm (Lecture)
Decolonizing Architecture: Reorienting Israel’s Architecture of Occupation - Alessandro Petti
Metropolis Cinema
5pm - 6:30pm (Artist talk)
I AM NOT WHAT I AM - Hassan Khan
Masrah Al Madina
6:30pm – 8pm (Lecture)
Hors du Lieu, Hors du Temps - Elias Sanbar
8:30pm - 10:15pm
Let It Be part 3 (Film and video programme curated by Akram Zaatari)
"The work of William E. Jones"
10:15pm - 11:45pm (Panel)
a discussion around Let It Be with William Jones, Hannah Feldman, Stuart Comer, and Akram Zaatari.
SUNDAY APRIL 20
Cinema Metropolis
11am - 12:00pm (Video screening)
Nervus Rerum - Otolith Group / 60'/ Arabic with English subtitles
12:30pm - 1:20pm (Video screenings)
I, Soldier - Koken Ergun / 7'14''/ Turkish with English subtitles
The Flag / Bayrak - Koken Ergun / 19'/ Turkish with English subtitles
The Sea Is a Stereo - Mounira Al Solh / 13' / Arabic with English subtitles
La Traverse - Sirine Fattouh / 10'30''
Masrah Al Madina
3pm – 4:30pm (Lecture and artist talk)
An Ungrateful Death: Al Karam in the Age of Withdrawal - Mireille Astore
5pm – 6pm (Video screening)
What Everybody Knows - Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri / 60’ / Arabic with English subtitles
6 pm – 7pm (Conversation)
And Yet Everything Continues As Before
TJ Demos, Ayreen Anastas, and Rene Gabri
7:30pm – 9pm (Lecture)
Escape the Overcode - Brian Holmes
Venues Addresses
Masrah Al Madina / Saroulla Center, Hamra main street, Beirut. / Tel: 01 753010/11
Metropolis Cinema / Masrah Al Madina, Saroulla Center, Hamra main street, Beirut. / Tel: 03 793065
Estral Center / Hamra main street, next to Masrah Al Madina , Beirut.
Agial Art Gallery / Abdel Aziz Street, Hamra, Beirut
Sfeir - Semler Gallery / Jisr Sector, Tannous Building 4th floor, Karantina, Beirut / Tel:01 566 550
Bernard Khoury Architecture Studio / Jisr Sector, Tannous Building 3rd floor, Karantina, Beirut
Saint Joseph Church Crypt / Saint Joseph University Street, Monnot, Beirut. / Tel: 01 200456
Discovery Planet Exhibition Hall / Omar Daouk street, Beirut Central District.