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_Beirut From a Distance
Monday April 20 2020The Green Line - An introductory lecture presented by Dana Marjan.
Tuesday April 21 2020The Wall - A Short film followed by Q&A with filmmaker Odette Makhlouf.
Wednesday April 22 2020War Piece - A conversation with artist Jad El Khoury.
Thursday April 23 2020
Designing Through Urban Obstacles - A presentation with Tessa & Tara co-founders of T Sakhi Architects.
Friday April 24 2020
Writing As Architecture - A discussion with architect, artist and writer Raafat Mazjoub.
Thursday April 30 2020
Writing Histories: Collecting The Ephemeral - A lecture hosted by architect, urban researcher, and artist Saba Innab.
Tuesday May 5 2020
Master’s Tools: Heuristic Aesthetics and Other Decolonial Tactics - A Lecture hosted by interdisciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis.
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Dossiers: Cities Under Surveillance is a three-year-long project which explores the systems of control that govern, regulate and mediate urban public space. Contemporary public space is contested as it is controlled through powers, both concealed and exposed. This illusive nature of security and surveillance detaches public space solely from the bounds of geographical location, to be read in relation to broader systems of control. Public space is now a territorial question.
Concerned with reading public space as territories under transformation, the first instalment of this studio scanned Sydney and Johannesburg as cities under surveillance, exposing and responding to the colonial legacies of control. Dossiers: Cities Unde Surveillance II will travel to Beirut, Lebanon to question the role of security and surveillance in a post-traumatic context. Stricken by a long history of conflict and consequently, a period of amnesia, Beirut is the battlefield for cultural and political action.
[AR, MS,NB]
Site: Beirut
33.8938° N, 35.5018° E
Timeframe: 11/04/20
Methods|Evidence: Mediating Distance, Dormant Fiction, Active Fiction, Constructed Realities,
Staging, Rehearsing Memories, Desires
Methods|Evidence: Mediating Distance, Dormant Fiction, Active Fiction, Constructed Realities,
Staging, Rehearsing Memories, Desires
[EV, NM,CO]
Site: Nejmeh Square
33°53'47.6"N 35°30'16.0"E
Timeframe: 1914 - 1933
Methods|Evidence: Nijmeh Square, Control, Layers, Fragments, Loss, Blurred Identity,
Architecture, Rebuilt, Reconstruction, Heritage, History, Corruption, Contradiction, Strength, Colonialism, Archaeological, Historical, Ruin, Object, Building Form
Methods|Evidence: Nijmeh Square, Control, Layers, Fragments, Loss, Blurred Identity,
Architecture, Rebuilt, Reconstruction, Heritage, History, Corruption, Contradiction, Strength, Colonialism, Archaeological, Historical, Ruin, Object, Building Form
03_The Spectators
[HZ,TG]
Site: Martyrs’ Square
33°53'46.9"N 35°30'25.9"E
Timeframe: 2020
Methods|Evidence: Fairuz, Concert, Women, Violence, Patriarchy, Military, Uniform,
COVID-19, Isolation, Balcony, Curtains
Methods|Evidence: Fairuz, Concert, Women, Violence, Patriarchy, Military, Uniform,
COVID-19, Isolation, Balcony, Curtains
[MK,SC,IB]
Site: Burj al Murr, Beirut
33°53'43.1"N 35°29'47.2"E
Timeframe: 2020 - FUTURE
Methods|Evidence: Embodied Memories, Abandoned, Expose, Territory, Power, Political Monopoly, Reconstructed, Presentism, Acknowledge, Substantiate, Ambiguous Explorations, Identity, Coexistences
Methods|Evidence: Embodied Memories, Abandoned, Expose, Territory, Power, Political Monopoly, Reconstructed, Presentism, Acknowledge, Substantiate, Ambiguous Explorations, Identity, Coexistences
[EB,VH]
Site: National Museum of Beirut
33°52'42.4"N 35°30'54.3"E
Timeframe: Present, 20 years, 100 years, 200 years
Methods|Evidence: Anxiety, Dismantle, Erasure, Retake, Reconstitution, Liberate
Methods|Evidence: Anxiety, Dismantle, Erasure, Retake, Reconstitution, Liberate
[FA,CL]
Site: The Pink House
33°53'51.7"N 35°28'18.7"E
Timeframe: Four Days, 1882-2020
Methods|Evidence: Water, Light, Filtration, Decay, Exhibition
Methods|Evidence: Water, Light, Filtration, Decay, Exhibition
[MS,NB]
Site: Zaitunay Bay,The Dalieh & Ramlet Al Baida, Beirut
33°54'08.7"N 35°29'52.8"E
Timeframe: 1920 - 2020
Methods|Evidence: Limestone, Shoreline, Financialisation, Erosion, Ecology, Science,
Human vs Non Human, Anthropogenics, Colonisation, Plastiglomerate,
Waste Crisis, Formation of Rock
Methods|Evidence: Limestone, Shoreline, Financialisation, Erosion, Ecology, Science,
Human vs Non Human, Anthropogenics, Colonisation, Plastiglomerate,
Waste Crisis, Formation of Rock
[BD,HW]
Site: The Hotel District, Beirut
33°53'59.0"N 35°29'42.0"E
Timeframe: October 1975 - March 1976
Methods|Evidence: Preservation, Perspective, Drawing, Optics, Panoptical, View, Image,
Line of Sight, Occupants, Power, Authority, Documentation
Methods|Evidence: Preservation, Perspective, Drawing, Optics, Panoptical, View, Image,
Line of Sight, Occupants, Power, Authority, Documentation
[AR,JY,MA]
Site: Martyrs’ Square, Beirut
33°53'46.8"N 35°30'25.8"E
Timeframe: 1960 - 2020
Methods|Evidence: Ear Witnessing, Sonic, Audio, Sound, Visual, Image, Mute Witnesses, Protest, Leakage, Sonifying Evidence
Methods|Evidence: Ear Witnessing, Sonic, Audio, Sound, Visual, Image, Mute Witnesses, Protest, Leakage, Sonifying Evidence
Site: The Egg, Beirut
33°53'36.2"N 35°30'21.6"E
Timeframe: 1990 - 2019
Methods|Evidence: Diagram, Tools, Language, [mis]translation, [mis]reading, Discourse, Resistance, Occupation, Preservation, Trace, Receipt, Systems
Methods|Evidence: Diagram, Tools, Language, [mis]translation, [mis]reading, Discourse, Resistance, Occupation, Preservation, Trace, Receipt, Systems
[AZ,IW]
Site: The Barakat Building, Beirut
33°53'12.9"N 35°30'29.8"E
Timeframe: 1924 - Current
Methods|Evidence: Fiction, Ontology, Thingness, Archival, Chimera
Methods|Evidence: Fiction, Ontology, Thingness, Archival, Chimera
[MA,LO]
Site: The Hippodrome, Beirut
33°52'39.0"N 35°30'42.3"E
Timeframe: 6 minutes from 29 May 2020
Methods|Evidence: Performance, Projection, Body, Street, Wall, Ritual, Material,
Public Space, Occupy
Methods|Evidence: Performance, Projection, Body, Street, Wall, Ritual, Material,
Public Space, Occupy