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Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices Exhibitions, Lectures, Panels, Dance, Performances, Film and Video Screenings, and Publications Venues: Masrah Al Madina – Metropolis Cinema – Sfeir - Semler Gallery – Planet Discovery Exhibition Hall – Estral Center – Agial Art Gallery – Saint Joseph Church Crypt – Bernard Khoury Architecture Studio You may consult and purchase Ashkal Alwan's publications in Nuha Al Radi Hall in Masrah Al Madina starting Sunday April 13th until Sunday April 20th, 2008. NOA Magazine issue #1: "Treason is Like a Bible" by Mounira Al Solh is launched. To access this publication please see www.ashkalalwan.org The performance Nusch - Tg STAN and Rosas has the limited capacity of 28 audience members per performance. To reserve, contact us on 03 038428. All lectures and panel discussions will be simultaneously translated to Arabic, English, and French as appropriate. Attendance is open to all and free of charge. Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices is supported by: the Ford Foundation, Foundation Open Society Institute, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Ministry of Culture, and British Council Lebanon. In partnership with: Masrah Al Madina, Metropolis Cinema, Exhibitions Sfeir - Semler Gallery : April 12th - May 31st, 2008 / 11am - 7pm. Closes on Sundays and Mondays. Opens exceptionally on Monday April 14th. Planet Discovery Exhibition Hall: April 12th - May 1st, 2008 / 10am - 7pm. Closes on Sundays. Programme 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 Back to the Present - Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige Bent Jbeil - Wael Shawky Estral Center / 11am - 7pm 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 – 11:50am (Video screenings) Days of Blood, Days of Fire, 1978-1979 - Photographic Report - 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 12:00 - 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 5pm – 5:30pm (Video screening) Terror Unleashed - Roy Samaha / 32’ / Arabic with English subtitles 6pm – 9pm (Panel) Why Do We Kill Ourselves? A 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 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 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 10pm – 11:30pm (Performance) How 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) 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 - 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') 8:30pm – 9:20pm (Performance) Nusch - Tg STAN and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas THURSDAY APRIL 17 Metropolis Cinema 4pm - 5:30pm (Video screenings) 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 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) Decolonising Architecture: Reorienting 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 Metropolis Cinema 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 / Metropolis Cinema / Masrah Al Madina, Agial Sfeir - Semler Gallery / Jisr Sector, Tannous Building 4th floor, Karantina, Bernard Khoury Architecture Studio / Jisr Sector, Discovery Planet Exhibition Hall /
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