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May 2013 
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Home Works 6
17:00Live conversation & reading group98weeks | On the Politics of Silence & Speech - Nikita Dhawan and Sidsel Nelund (moderators)
Tuesday 21
Home Works 6
17:00Panel discussion98weeks | How to be in the future - Nora Razian with Tarek El-Ariss (moderator), Yazan L. Al Saadi, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige & Sophia al Maria
Wednesday 22
Thursday 23
Home Works 6
18:45Artist project & lecturePlastic Veins | Sunrising/ The Black Wednesday/ Eavesdropping in Istanbul, 1954 - Kristine Khouri, Maha Maamoun, Dilek Winchester & Sarah-Neel Smith
Friday 24
Saturday 25
Home Works 6
16:45Lecture, Lecture-performancePlastic Veins | A Critical Network Traversal/ Systematics, taxonomy, and practices of collecting - Burak Arikan, D. Graham Burnett
Sunday 26
Upcoming Elsewhere & Around
WorkshopBeirut Art CenterMay 2013
Workshop by no.w.hereIn conjunction with the exhibition Video Vintage, Beirut Art Center has invited Karen Mirza and Brad Butler to lead a workshop around political engagement in film. The participants in the workshop will collaborate in a multidisciplinary project combining practice and theory, the outcome of which will be presented to the public on Monday 27 May, 8 pm.
ExhibitionBeirutApril 2013
Sfeir-Semler Gallery | The Shortest Distance Between Two Points | An exhibition by Rayyane TabetThe Shortest Distance Between Two Points
is a line. A line is a construction of distance - in space, in time, in vision. It gives definition to form and position through connection and separation.
The Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Company was established in 1946 as a joint venture between Caltex, Esso, and Mobil. TAPLine was formed to build and operate a 1213 kilometer long 78 centimeter wide steel tube to transport oil through land. With this endeavor the company described three intersecting lines - an arc of history, geography, and geometry.
ExhibitionBeirutApril 2013
Beirut Art Center | Video Vintage 1963-1983 | A Selection of the New Media Collection, Centre Pompidou, ParisBeirut Art Center is pleased to present Video Vintage 1963 - 1983, an exhibition of 72 videos by over 50 international artists selected from Centre Pompidou′s New Media Collection. The videos in this exhibition are presented in a «vintage» setting. The staged living rooms in the exhibition space invite visitors to view works of video art in their original historical dimension, in a «homely» atmosphere.
Open HouseBeirutMay 2013
Mansion“Open House” and presentation of projects in Mansion. The artist studios will be open for visits. Mansion is an
abandoned 800m² villa transformed into a multipurpose collective space with studios and offices for artists,
researchers, designers, architects, NGOs, etc. Mansion is a self-funded project, located in the centre of Beirut.
Open StudioBeirutMay 2013
Portal 9Please join the Portal 9 team in an open studio to celebrate the release of the second issue of the journal in
Spring 2013. Portal 9's second issue addresses The Square through fiction, narratives, and academic writing,
as well as artistic and critical reviews. The Square issue also reveals essays and articles from Casablanca, Tunis,
Cairo, Beirut, Kuwait, Al Manama, Paris, Brazilia, and other cities around the world.
Book Launches & Open HousesBeirutMay 2013
KalamonCome meet Kalamon magazine’s editorial team at the Home Workspace Library. Open for writers, artists and
anyone interested in contributing to Kalamon’s future issues and projects. All earlier editions of the magazine
will be available. Kalamon is a quarterly cultural magazine published in Beirut in Arabic.
ExhibitionBeirutMay 2013
Agial Art Gallery | Mantek Al Tayr | Landscape, Vision – Group of works 2007-2013Her recent paintings belong to her "Landscapes" series, a group of work on paper exploring the notion of landscape as a dimension, rather than a pictorial subject. Here, the landscape is treated as an expanded state of consciousness, often beyond or beneath language. It can be perceived as a readjustment of the sensorial experience, shifted from any discursive thought, hence "recognized" as an archetype of sorts, a primal recognition sensation.
Open CallsBeirutMay 2013
Exposure 2013As part of its initiative to promote innovative local talent, Beirut Art Center organizes an annual emerging artists’ exhibition. We are happy to announce that the call for submissions for Exposure 2013 is open. The exhibition is organized in partnership with Banque Libano-Française and Société Perrier.
We invite you to submit a proposal before June 13, 2013.
Please note that there is no specific theme and all media are accepted.
Artists may propose a project that is still incomplete and that they wish to present for this show, or a completed work that has not yet been shown.
The board of BAC, together with a jury invited for the occasion, will select the artists who will participate in the exhibition based on their proposals.
The selection of the participants will be announced by the end of July.
Exposure 2013 is scheduled to take place in mid-November.
If you wish to participate, please send us a request for an application form by email to info@beirutartcenter.org.
For more details, kindly refer to the terms and conditions below.