Monday Night 05.05.03--7:00 pm--everything and nothing--Jayce Salloum
Contents:
1. this monday "everything and nothing" Jayce Salloum
preceded by excerpt from "Up to the South" Jayce +Waleed
2. this tuesday at LMCC: a conversation with Eyal Weizman
3. next monday 05.12.03--7:00pm-- at 16 beaver: Shelly Silver
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1. Monday Night 05.05.03---7:00 pm---everything and nothing ---Jayce Salloum
Operation Now, How, Wow ----------extended
everything and nothing, part 1 from the continuous tape, "untitled"
Directed by: Jayce Salloum
Time: 41 minutes
Year: 2001 (VHS)
Language: Arabic with English Subtitles
An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of
a figure (of resistance) and subject with, *Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese
National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room taped (during the last
year of the Israeli occupation) one year after her release from captivity
in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had
been detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation. Revising notions of
resistance, survival and will, recounting to death, separation and
closeness; the overexposed image and body of a surviving martyr speaking
quietly and directly into the camera juxtaposed against her self and
image, not speaking of the torture but of the distance between the subject
and the loss, of what is left behind and what remains.
http://www.111101.net/Artworks/JayceSalloum/
http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?SALLOUMJ
http://www.civilisations.ca/cultur/cespays/images/pay2_20p5.jpg
http://www.argosarts.org/exhibition-salloum.html
http://www.lot.at/politics/contributions/s_jayce1.htm
http://www.wwvf.nl/2001/0newarabvideo.htm
Up to the South [Talaeen a Junuub] - 60 minutes, 1993
A Videotape by Jayce Salloum and Walid Raad
(((note1: we will show a ten minute excerpt.)))
(((Note: Up to the South will be screened at the "Homeland" show of the
Whitney Independent Study program. on Wednesday June 4th at 7 pm 365 fifth
avenue at 34th street.)))
Talaeen a Junuub (Up to the South) is ostensibly a documentary on the
south of Lebanon exploring current conditions, the issues behind the
conditions and their representation both in the West and in Lebanon
itself. Within this we are trying to tackle two other concerns. One being
the terms (and positions) inherent in the discourse surrounding the
issues, i.e. terrorism, colonialism, occupation, resistance,
collaboration, experts, spokespeople, leadership, the land, etc., and the
other being the history and structure of the documentary genre
specifically in regards to the representation of other cultures by the
West in documentary, ethnography and anthropological practise and the
problems/agenda involved from the perspective of the subjects viewed and
the practitioners practising. "Up to the South" challenges traditional
documentary formats by positing representation itself as a politicized
practice.
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2. this tuesday at LMCC: a conversation with Eyal Weizman
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in partnership with the Storefront
for Art and Architecture and Cabinet Magazine presents:
A conversation with Eyal Weizman
Tuesday May 6th 2003
6:30 ? 8:00 p.m.
Mr. Weizman will present, discuss and answer questions about his
recent projects and most specifically on ?A Civilian Occupation: The
Politics of Israeli Architecture?
Eyal Weizman is an architect based in Tel Aviv and London. With Rafi
Segal he is working on the redesign of the Ashdod Museum of Art and a set
for the Kameri/Itim theatre company. They have been recently nominated
amongst the finalists for the design of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Weizman and Segal created the exhibition A Civilian Occupation: The
Politics of Israeli Architecture that was recently on view at the
Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. The project examining
the politics of settlement was originally commissioned by the Israel
Association of United Architects but was cancelled for the World Congress
of Architecture in Berlin last July. Weizman has conducted research on
behalf of the human rights organization B'tselem on the planning aspects
of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. He co-authored Land Grab (May
2002), a human rights report, and conducted a map project of the West Bank
for the human rights organization B?Tselem. Weizman is currently
developing his doctoral thesis The Politics of Verticality / Architecture
and Occupation in the West Bank and Gaza into a book and a documentary
film.
Space and seating is limited, so please arrive early.
Location & Directions
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
1 Wall Street Court
2nd Floor
www.lmcc.net
212.210.9401
Subway and Bus Directions:
2/3/4/5 to Wall Street
J/M/Z to Broad Street
M6 to Broadway and Wall Street
Walk eastbound on Wall Street to Pearl Street. Turn right onto Pearl
Street. The building will be directly in front of you. The entrance is on
Pearl Street in the middle of the block.
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3. next monday 05.12.03--7:00pm--at 16 beaver: Shelly Silver
stay tuned...more info next week....
