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CHAPTER\u00a0I –\u00a0<\/strong>Beirut & Batroun<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quantum Fluctuations in a\u00a0Synecdochic\u00a0Universe<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

December 04-08, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n

The session in Beirut opened the research cycle “Catastrophe & Heritage” (2012-2014) which investigated \u00a0the interplay between catastrophe, heritage, transformation and art in Lebanon, Japan, Italy and Brazil. The session in Beirut\u00a0read the concept of \u2018ruin\u2019 through the linguistic figure of the synecdoche and performed Beirut\u2019s post-war landscape through metaphorical and fictional gestures:<\/p>\n

In a mapped configuration of time-space, OuUnPo lands at a temporary shift in the magnitudes of entropy and gravity. It is one in a multitude and finds itself when the unknown starts. It is a twofold encounter, one contemporary with its participants, the other with an inhabitant of age, which you would call a distant future. What happens is only possible to seize in its aftermath. Recurrence of places is a possibility yet there will be no repetition. Guided by the uncertainty principle encounters will unfold. The synecdoche is your key to access a tropic space. The figure of speech involves an intermitted yet visionary perception. You speak as you articulate silence, as you subvert absence and presence. One part may stand in for the whole as well as the whole can fit into the most modest detail. You presume what is real from that which that glances at you. The fictional is a reality and a posterior is already in there. It is a journey of wonders, where one cannot expect to trust all that is visible. You are on your own to collect resonances as you go along, to reconstruct a meaningful universe from a discontinuous landscape of fragments. Coincidences, recurrences, d\u00e9j\u00e0 vus. These are your way to a simultaneous understanding in the moment of life where time comes into place. You call it now, they call it history, we call it future. <\/i><\/p>\n

Organizers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sara Giannini and Fatos \u00dcstek. Curatorial assistant Ilaria Lupo.<\/p>\n

Some highlights of the program<\/strong><\/p>\n

The session opened with a full-day workshop co-hosted by artists Mounira Al Solh,\u00a0Chaza Charafeddine and\u00a0Karine Wehbe in which we shared our respective practices, interests and work-in-progresses. The session continued with the live hypnosis\u00a0The Mouth of Your Fingers Speaks with Beirut \u00a0<\/i>that artist\u00a0Natasha Rosling \u00a0performed in the stairway and rooftop terrace of a private building and that later led to a series of \u2018ventriloquil\u2019 interventions for the public stairs between Mar Mikhael and Gemmayzeh neighbourhoods. The exploration of private and public dimensions continued with Jacopo Miliani’s\u00a0Yes We Do, We Believe in Mirages<\/i>\u00a0at\u00a098weeks Project Space\u00a0and adjacent private apartments. The performance was\u00a0<\/span>an experimental synecdochic reading of selected texts from his book Do you Believe in Mirages?\u00a0<\/i>reflecting on the idea of representation, imagination, vision and exoticism. Performative readings were also at the base of the collective Radio Broadcasting that the group performed at Radio Beirut and at the opening night of the new cultural space The Mansion with\u00a0… In Fact More Imagined Than Real<\/em>. Narrativity and story-telling\u00a0have also been\u00a0explored by the Guided Tour<\/em> that visiting artists Per H\u00fcttner and Klas Eriksson appropriated from a local architect and\u00a0performed in downtown Beirut, blurring the line between factuality and fiction.\u00a0The session ended with a sound piece by Samon Takahashi at the magical premises of Batroun Art\u00a0Space along the Lebanese coast.<\/p>\n

Participants and contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the OuUnPo network:\u00a0Yane Calovski, Klas Eriksson, Sara Giannini, Per H\u00fcttner, Jacopo Miliani, Raffaella della Olga, Marco Pasi, Natasha Rosling, Claudia Squitieri, Samon Takahashi, Fatos \u00dcstek, Stephen Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n

Local participants:\u00a0Amanda Abu Khalil, Mounira Al Solh Mirene Arsanios, Marwa Arsanios, Seth Ayyaz, Monika Borgmann, Chaza Charafeddine, Lawrence Abu Hamdan,\u00a0 Sandra Ich\u00e9, Ilaria Lupo, Ghassan Maasri, Jean-Marc Nahas, Nora Razian, Karine Wehbe, Raed Yassin & many others.<\/p>\n

Partners and venues<\/strong><\/p>\n

Agial Art Gallery, Villa Fleming, The Mansion, 98weeks Research Project, Beirut National Museum, The Hangar-UMAM Center, Radio Beirut, Byblos Archeological Sites, Batroun Art Space, as well as public spaces in the city.<\/p>\n

CHAPTER\u00a0II – ZKM Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the Worlds that you Word…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

January 18, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n

In the context of the\u00a0ZKM exhibition\u00a0Global aCtiVISM<\/i>, OuUnPo invited artists Mounira Al Solh and Lawrence Abu Hamdan to enact and perform two ongoing research projects that poke and investigate the liaisons between language and power.\u00a0Mounira Al Solh presented\u00a0her NOA (not only arabic)<\/em> magazine, a series of collaborative and performative gestures recollected under printed form.\u00a0Lawrence Abu Hamdan has\u00a0instead organized a collective listening session and discussion stemming out of Aural Contract<\/em>, a project about the relationship of listening to politics, borders, human rights, testimony, truth and international law.<\/p>\n

Both chapters have been supported by <\/b>Link\u00f6pings universitet and the European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam<\/p>\n

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CHAPTER\u00a0I –\u00a0Beirut & Batroun Quantum Fluctuations in a\u00a0Synecdochic\u00a0Universe December 04-08, 2012 The session in Beirut opened the research cycle “Catastrophe & Heritage” (2012-2014) which investigated \u00a0the interplay between catastrophe, heritage, transformation and art in Lebanon, Japan, Italy and Brazil. The session in Beirut\u00a0read the concept of \u2018ruin\u2019 through the linguistic figure of the synecdoche and […] <\/p>\n

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