Home Workspace Program 2024

The 13th edition of HWP offered: 

1. Ali Eyal, Lamia Abu Khadra, and Monica Basbous shared their experiences as past fellows and their current projects.
    

2. Saada Allaw discussed the Litani River's history, mythology, and the current environmental urgencies of pollution and water scarcity.
    

3. Field trips to the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut Art Center, the Saradar Collection, and the Sursock Museum Collection introduced fellows to the institutions’ work, resources, and the changing cultural landscape.
    

4. The Waiting Room by Mahmoud Khaled explored public spaces as sites for sociopolitical encounters and suddenness.
    

5. Raafat Majzoub’s seminar explored speculative fiction and socially engaged art, delving into political intricacies and the role of contemporary art and publishing in catalyzing political transformation.
    

6. Joe Namy introduced listening and sound-making as tools to understand and transform the environments we inhabit. Fellows were exposed to receptive practices attuned to the resonance of conflict on nature, agriculture, and culture, viewing waveforms as emotional fields.
    

7. Marwa Arsanios centered on the relation between practice, theory, and art infrastructures.
    

8. Stemming from his recent exhibition Chasing the Sun, inspired by childhood games and the influence of toys on our daily lives, Marwan Rechmaoui’s studio-based workshop commenced with a presentation of his work. It was followed by a two-week-long residency in his studio where fellows experimented with available materials to create their own games, receiving one-to-one tutorials throughout the workshop.
    

With the HWP fellows, Haig Aivazian  reflected on and imagined dispositions that are neither defeatist, nor overly celebratory and that seek meaning in collective praxes. Aivazian proposed a series of prompts, readings, exercises, as ways to search for and develop artistic registers, practices, and methodologies that might adequately contend with Lebanon as a prototype of a world in crisis and ebullition.

24 January: visit to the Arab Image Foundation.
25 January: Discussion with Ali Eyal

31 January: Discussion with Lamia Abu Khadra

1 February: Visit to the Beirut Art Center

February 5-16: Workshop with Mahmoud Khaled

February 9: Discussion with Monica Basbous

February 13: Visit to the Saradar Collection

March 6-7; June 19: Seminar with Raafat Majzoub

March 18-29: Workshop with Joe Namy

March 26: Lecture by Saada Allaw

April 4-19: Workshop with Marwa Arsanios 

April 26: Presentation by Marwan Rechmaoui

May 3-10: Practical workshop with Marwan Rechmaoui

May 15 - June 3: Workshop with Haig Aivazian

June 24-28: One-to-one sessions with Joe Namy

July 18-19: One-to-one sessions with Haig Aivazian

July 25: Final presentations