Home Works V: A Forum on Cultural Practices



Wednesday, April 21st

Dance Performance: Israel Galván, "Solo", 9 pm PREMIÈRE EVENT


Thursday, April 22nd

Exhibition openings at Beirut Art Center, 3 pm
Launch of Ashkal Alwan for Contemporary Arts and The Home Works Academy & Cocktail, 5 pm
Exhibition openings at The Home Works Academy, 6 pm
Dance Performance: Gaspard Delanoë, with Yalda Younes, "I Have Come", 10 pm


Friday, April 23rd

Project organized by Ashkan Sepahvand at the National Museum of Beirut, "Other than someone, there was no one", 11 am
Dance Performance: Yalda Younes, "I Have Come", 5 pm repeat
Lecture: Raja Shehadeh, "A Rift in Time, Travels of my Ottoman Uncle: A Book Presentation", 6 pm
Lecture: Farouk Mardam-Bey, "Of Longing (and Reticence) for the 1960s" 8 pm
Music and Video Performance: Daniele Camarda, Jacopo Carreras, Raed El Khazen, Lana Daher, Jana Saleh, "Primal Spheres in a Brave New World", 10 pm


Saturday, April 24th

Panel in two sessions: "Where is Beirut, Ramallah, Cairo... From the Saadiyat Island": Vasıf Kortun, Andrew Ross, Shumon Basar, Nada Shabout, Mishaal Al Gergawi (panelists). Walid Raad (moderator)
1st part: 11 am
2nd part: 4 pm
Lecture & Book launch: Fadi Toufiq, "The New Killer", 7:30 pm
Workshop and Colloquium with pad.ma: "Don't Wait for the Archive: Archiving Practices and Futures of the Image", 4:30 pm
Film Screening & Panel: "A Season Outside"/"Zones of Conflict" part 1: Amar Kanwar & Faisal Devji (panelists), T.J. Demos (moderator), 9:30 pm


Sunday, April 25th

Lecture: Nizar Saghieh, "Beyond Communitarianism: What Captures the City's Heart", 12:30 pm
Panel in three sessions: "In and Out of Education" part 1: Anton Vidokle, Klaus Knoll/Cella, Clare Davies (panelists), Reem Fadda (moderator), 3 pm
Lecture: Thomas Keenan, "A language that needs no translation - on war as a form of discourse", 6 pm
Lecture: Ali Fayyad, 8 pm
Music performance, Darbuka & Dehollo: Mısırlı Ahmet, 10 pm


Monday, April 26th

Artist Project: Tony Chakar, "The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City", 11 am
Lecture: Ayse Gül Altınay, 6 pm (On militarism)
Panel in three sessions: "In and Out of Education" part 2: Okwui Enwezor, Alessandro Petti/Sandi Hilal (panelists), Walid Sadek (moderator), 8 pm


Tuesday, April 27th

Project organized by Ashkan Sepahvand at the National Museum of Beirut, "Other than someone, there was no one", 11 am repeat
Artist Project: Tony Chakar, "The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City", 6 pm repeat
Lecture: Jalal Toufic, "Don't Go to Hell for the Sake of Finishing Watching the Film", 6 pm as part of "In and Out of Education"
Panel in three sessions: "In and Out of Education" part 3: Yazid Anani, Judi Werthein, Charles Esche (panelists), Gregory Sholette (moderator), 7 pm
Performance: "Photo-Romance": Rabih Mroué & Lina Saneh, with Charbel Haber, 10 pm


Wednesday, April 28th

Artist Project: Tony Chakar, "The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City", 11 am repeat
Performance: "Photo-Romance": Rabih Mroué & Lina Saneh, with Charbel Haber, 5 pm repeat
Film Screening & panel: "November"/"Zones of Conflict" part 2: Hito Steyerl & T.J. Demos, 6 pm
Performance: Boris Charmatz (dance), Médéric Collignon (pocket trumpet, voice), "Improvisation", 8 pm


Thursday, April 29th

Artist Project: Tony Chakar, "The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City", 6 pm repeat
Artist Presentation: Hiwa K, "As if an Arts School", 6 pm
Talk: Kodwo Eshun & Steve Goodman, "KRIEGSPIEL 2.0 : THE IMMERSIVE IMAGE", 7:30 pm on sound & citizenry
Performance: Antonia Baehr, "Laugh", 10 pm


Friday, April 30th

Artist Project: Tony Chakar, "The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City", 11 am repeat
Performance: Antonia Baehr, "Laugh", 5 pm repeat
Lecture: Mohammed Soueid, "The Loneliness of Dust", 6 pm
Performance: The Otolith Group, "Communists Like Us", 8 pm
Film Screening: Harun Farocki, "Immersion", 9:30 pm


Saturday, May 1st

Artist Talk: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, "Aural Contract", 11 am
Project organized by Ashkan Sepahvand at the National Museum of Beirut, "Other than someone, there was no one", 1 pm repeat
Artist Talk: Setareh Shahbazi, "Reverse Diary (The Secret of Atmospheric Pictures III)", 3 pm
Lecture: Youssef Tohme, "Architectural Silence & Duality", 5 pm
Artist Project: Tony Chakar, "The Sky Over Beirut: Walking Tours of the City", 6 pm repeat
Lecture: Abbas Beydoun, 7 pm (On the Odd years)
Music Performance: Rima Khcheich & Rabih Mroué, "A Minute Late", 9:30 pm



Exhibitions:

Ruanne Abou- Rahme and Basel Abbas
Tala al-Kazafi
Ayreen Anastas
Marwa Arsanios
Vartan Avakian
Broomberg & Chanarin
Decolonizing Architecture
Cevdet Erek
Shahab Fotouhi
Ghassan Halwani
Amal Issa
Bengü Karaduman
Hassan Khan
Maha Maamoun
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Marwan Rechmaoui
Raed Yassin
Ala' Younis


Publication Projects:

Rayya Badran,  Radiophonic voice(s)
Fadi Abdallah, Signatures



Please note that the above list is subject to minor changes.
Our screening program will follow soon.