'Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practices is a multidisciplinary platform that takes place in Beirut, Lebanon every 2-3 years. Launched by Ashkal Alwan in 2002, Home Works has evolved into one of the most vibrant platforms for contemporary cultural practices in the Arab region and internationally.
Artists, curators, writers, thinkers, and cultural practitioners gather for ten days in order to share their works, which take the form of exhibitions, lectures, panels, artists’ talks, screenings, workshops and publications, as well as theatre, dance and music performances.
Presented in 2005, the third edition of the Home Works Forum was a reflection on the notion of our presence in this world, reconstituted in narrative and representation. We must assert the fact that we are not merely a face caught on a security camera, a stamp on a passport, a fingerprint filed in a court, a visa denied, a stereotype confirmed, or a silent misunderstanding hardened into an unspeakable fact. Our faces do not implore to be saved; our faces are beautiful.' - from publisher's website.
This publication includes transcripts of lectures and panel discussions; and descriptions of performances, artist talks, exhibitions, video and film screenings, projects and publications presented in the forum.
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Onsite
Arabic,
English
2008
9789953011868
1
conference proceedings
Lectures
Fatal Equality: Islamists and Istishhadiyyat - Islad JAD
A Memoir of Identities: I am of this World - Dalal el BIZRI
Normalisation and its Discontents - Natasa ILIC
Some Paradoxes of Political Art - Jacques RANCIERE
Repression and the Information Boom - Zuhair al JEZAIRI
Lebanon in Two Camps: A Partisan Fear of a Free Citizenry - Mohammad Abi SAMRA
Panels
Whither Lebanon?: Introduction - Bilal KHBEIZ
Lebanon and the Many Returns of the Repressed - Hazem SAGHIEH
After the Syrian Withdrawal, Whither our Lumpen-Democracy? - Wissam SAADEH
Lebanon: Compromise or a New Social Contract? - Nahla CHAHAL
Whither Lebanon? - Kamal HAMDAN
Pulling Focus: Art and Curatorial Practice Reconstruct Science - Introduction - Lynn LOVE
Science in Images: From Eugenics to Human Cloning - Carol SQUIERS
Crime, Art and the Life Sciences - Steve KURTZ
Home Works III: A Forum on Cultural Practices
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