Home Works 6 occupies Beirut
Ashkal Alwan - the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts - presents Home Works 6, a transdisciplinary festival which will occupy Beirut for 12 days. In its 6th edition, the event includes concerts, lectures, screenings, publications and performances, curated by Christine Tohme.
Parallel to the program, an exhibition curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh reactivates three other historical exhibitions: the first Alexandria Biennial in 1955; the First Arab Art Biennial in Baghdad in 1974; and the exhibition China/Avant-Garde in Beijing in 1989. The collective show rescues the past and the present of these cities, identifying leaps between the three epochs. Not intended to be a historical reconstitution, the show articulates a body of contemporary artworks and crucial historical moments, inspired by Ibn Arabi's concept of "time as a fluid place and place as a frozen time".
The festival also features Matthias Lilienthal's X-Apartments project, comprising walks in Beirut and visits to local families, with the support of the artists in Ashkal Alwan's 2012/2013 residency program.
Ashkal Alwan - the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts - is a non-profit organization based in Beirut, Lebanon. Over the past 18 years, the association has been committed to the production, facilitation and circulation of creative and intellectual endeavors across a range of disciplines and media, establishing itself as a reference within the cultural landscape of the region and beyond.
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Home Works 6
2013 May 14 to 26
Ashkal Alwan - The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts
Beirut, Lebanon
More info: http://ashkalalwan.org/programs/home-works-6