Meeting Points 8: Both Sides of the Curtain, Beirut
April 12 to June4, 2017
Opening: Wednesday April 12, 7 – 10pm
Opening hours: Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, noon to 8pm, Wednesday noon to 10pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am to 6pm.
Beirut Art Center, Jisr AlWati, Beirut
Free entrance
What you see is familiar and viable but has never taken place. All the images are constructions, replicas of worlds where things and events are slightly different. This can be a worrisome or more pleasant development, and some offer a skewed experience of the world. The images act like stages where things will happen, have happened, and are happening (again). But the artists have assembled them from scratch; they are products of imagination or sites on which to project thoughts and desires.
This exhibition could be about re-enactment, architecture, and sound, or any of the many recurring subjects addressed in the works, but what Both Sides of the Curtain remains across these possibilities is a site that communicates inventions, ambiences, and invitations.
-Mai Abu ElDahab
The exhibition includes a two-hour film program of seven videos that runs daily during opening hours at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm and 8pm, and begins with the Arabic-subtitled versions and alternates with the English subtitled versions throughout the day.
The film program runs as follows:
00:00 – 00:15
Tamar Guimarães, Canoas, 2010
(PT with alternating ARA and ENG subtitles)
00:15 – 00:30
Gülsün Karamustafa, The City and the Secret Panther Fashion, 2007
(ENG with ARA subtitles)
00:30 – 00:55
Dora Garcia, el helicóptero, 2016
(BAS and ES with alternating ARA and ENG subtitles)
00:55 – 01:00
Joachim Koester, Reptile brain, or reptile body, it’s your animal, 2012
01:00 – 01:15
Basim Magdy, A Film About the Way Things Are, 2010
(ENG with ARA subtitles)
01:15 – 01:30
Fatma Bucak, Suggested place for you to see it, 2013
(TR with alternating ARA and ENG subtitles)
01:30 – 02:00
Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger, Capitulation Project, 2003
(ENG with ARA subtitles)
Concerts, Performances and Talks
Wednesday April 12
7.30pm Music for trumpet and modulating derbekah, performed by Joe Namy with Walid Sadek
9pm Without Certainty, an invitation or participation by Nile Sunset Annex with Andeel
Thursday April 13
7.30pm An Index for the Flute of Sub, a performance by Zin Taylor
8pm Listening session with Tarek Atoui, Malak Helmy, Hannah Catherine Jones, Raimundas Malašauskas, Lina Mounzer, and Sam Shalabi
Friday April 14
7.30pm By Written I Mean Made, a perfomance by Marnie Slater featuring Clare Noonan, Hanaa Safwat, and Jay Tan
8.30pm Afrofuturism and Gesamtkunstwerk, a talk by Hannah Catherine Jones
Saturday April 15**
8.30pm Concert by Josephine Foster with Victor Herrero
9.30pm Concert by the Dwarfs of East Agouza
*with Hady Aboukamar, Amy Arif, Shehab Awad, Chris Beauregard, Taha Belal, Olivier Castel, Marc-Alexandre Dumoulin, Faten El Disouky, Walid ElSawi, Jenifer Evans, Fadlabi, Ericka Florez, Malak Helmy, Mahmoud Khaled, Kareem Lotfy, Ahmed Nosseir, Mohanad Nur, Paul Simon Richards, Samira Ahmed Salim, Sarah Samy, Marnie Slater, Take to the Sea, Wadiaa Shenouda, Marianne Vlaschits, James Wright
**A live recording of the evening’s concerts will be released on vinyl by Mophradat and Unrock in autumn 2017.
Participants
Andeel
Basma Alsharif
Fatma Bucak
The Dwarfs of East Agouza
Dora Garcia
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Tamar Guimarães
Jean-Pascal Flavien
Josephine Foster with Victor Herrero
Judith Hopf
Hannah Catherine Jones
Gülsün Karamustafa
Joachim Koester
Basim Magdy
Joe Namy (performing with Walid Sadek)
Nile Sunset Annex*
Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger
Marnie Slater
Zin Taylor
