6 documents
e-flux presents True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs
April 6–19, 2021
e-flux Film
Category
Film, War & Conflict
Subjects
Documentary, Experimental Film, Historicity & Historiography, Fiction, Video Art
# 56
Appendix XVIII: Plates 22-257
Walid Raad
If you take a close look, you can see it.
With The Atlas Group (1989–2004) , I spent fifteen years working on a project about the wars in Lebanon. I have known and I have seen how the Lebanese wars of the past four decades have affected Lebanon’s residents physically and psychologically—from the one hundred thousand plus who have been killed, to the two hundred thousand plus who have been wounded, to the million plus who have been displaced, to the even more who have been…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2014
Category
War & Conflict
Subjects
Lebanon, Color
# 54
Index XXVI: Red
Walid Raad
If you look closely, you can see the white lines on this fragment of wall.
And those who read Arabic can tell that these lines are actually letters and names. These are the names of men and women who have lived and worked in Lebanon as painters and sculptors over the past century. They are also the names that I have been receiving telepathically from artists in the future over the past nine years.
If, like me, you have experienced telepathic reception, then you know…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2014
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Lebanon, Color
# 51
Section 139: The Atlas Group (1989–2004)
Walid Raad
In 2005 the Sfeir-Semler Gallery opened in Beirut, in an industrial quarter called Karantina.
Some of you already know that Karantina was the site of a brutal massacre of civilians in 1976. I am not going to talk about this here.
The Sfeir-Semler Gallery opened on the fourth floor of a large former warehouse. It is an 800-square-meter space, with clean four-meter-high, sixty-centimeter-thick white walls, smooth concrete floors, and diffuse northern lighting all around. It is the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2014
Category
Contemporary Art, War & Conflict
Subjects
Lebanon, Exhibition Histories
# 49
Walkthrough, Part II
Walid Raad
Continued from “ Walkthrough, Part I ”
During the past decade or so, I’ve been hearing more and more about Arab artists, about contemporary Arab art, modern Arab art, Islamic art, Middle Eastern art, its makers, sponsors, consumers, genres, and histories.
I’ve also been fascinated by the increasing number of festivals, workshops, museums, galleries, residencies, exhibitions, prizes, foundations, schools, and journals emerging in Arab cities such as Beirut, Doha, Cairo,…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2013
Category
Labor & Work
Subjects
Exhibition Histories, Middle East, Institutional Critique, Art Collecting
# 48
Walkthrough, Part I
Walid Raad
A few years ago, in November 2007 to be precise, I started a project on the history of the arts in the Arab world. I remember the month because I’d received a phone call that month from a woman by the same name.
November calls and asks me whether I am interested in joining a retirement plan just for artists, something she referred to as the Artist Pension Trust.
Until that point, I’d not even heard of retirement funds just for artists and I’d certainly not heard of the Artist…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2013
Category
Labor & Work
Subjects
Art Collecting , Institutional Critique