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TITLE |
LANGUAGE |
| 17h00
- 18h30 |
Lecture
7 |
Jalal
Toufic, writer, film theorist and video artist |
Post-War
Lebanese Art: Between the Withdrawal of Tradition and
Unworldly Irruptions |
English |
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Latent Image,
2002, installation with three drawers and film rolls.
Each drawer 7 cm x 31 cm x 39 cm. Detail. Courtesy of
Khalil Joreige. |
Alongside
the irruption of ahistorical fully-formed unworldly entities
in the radical closure that the 1982 besieged West Beirut
may have become (Walid Raad’s Miraculous Beginnings,
1998 and 2001, etc.); the withdrawal of tradition
past the surpassing disaster that Lebanon may have become
during and even after the 1975-1990 war (my Credits
Included: A Video in Red and Green, 1995; Joana Hadjithomas
and Khalil Joreige’s Wonder Beirut, 1999); tracking
shots from a moving car that are not followed by reverse
subjective shots and therefore do not indicate vision
but the condition of possibility of recollection in Beirut
(Ghassan Salhab’s Phantom Beirut, 1998); the fourth
most important aesthetic issue and strategy in relation
to Lebanon is that of the archeological image,
where the “earth stands for what is
buried in it” (Gilles Deleuze). This lecture will
address the first two of these aesthetic issues and strategies.
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Jalal Toufic |
Jalal
Toufic
Jalal
Toufic is a writer, film theorist, and video artist.
He is the author of Distracted (1991; 2nd
ed., 2003), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead
in Film (1993; 2nd ed., 2003), Over-Sensitivity
(1996), Forthcoming (2000), Undying Love,
or Love Dies (2002), Two or Three Things I’m
Dying to Tell You (2005) and ‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood
Spilled in My Veins (2005). His videos and mixed
media works have been presented in North America,
Brazil,
Korea, the Middle
East, Europe, most recently at the 16th International
Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) in a “Focus
Jalal Toufic” program. He co-edited the special Discourse
issue Gilles Deleuze: A Reason to Believe in this World,
and edited the Review of Photographic Memory as
well as the special Discourse issues Middle
Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee and
Mortals to Death. Toufic has taught at the University
of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the
Arts, USC, and, in Amsterdam, DasArts and the Rijksakademie.
He is the Head of the MA program in Film/Video Studies
at Holy Spirit University, Lebanon. Website: http://www.jalaltoufic.com. |
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