References: Artists Activating the Archive

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Feb 3, 2014 Egypt
[Artist Nada Shalaby`s \"You and I and Time is Long\" explores the history and myths of Tel el Yehudiya, Egypt. Image courtesy of Medrar TV.] [Artist Nada Shalaby`s \"You and I and Time is Long\" explores the history and myths of Tel el Yehudiya, Egypt. Image courtesy of Medrar TV.]

References: Artists Activating the Archive

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REFERENCES

Artists Activating the Archive

December 2013 - January 2014

Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

 

References—a group exhibition recently held at the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo—presents four artistic projects that were developed over a year using research and archival processes. Nada Shalaby’s You and I and Time is Long, for example, assembles a collection of images and texts inspired by the archaeological site of Tel el Yehudiya. Shalaby’s archive presents multiple accounts of the ancient site, weaving political, social, historical, and imaginary narratives. In Aliaa Salah’s Lines in the Sea, the local newspaper becomes a site where the personal and political implications of territorial and economic claims in the eastern Mediterranean are played out.

Also included are Drawing On A Nude Body, a collaborative project by Mariam Elias and Marwa El Shazly that revisits the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University and examines the drawing studio as a place where the changing politics of art education, aesthetic renewal, and cultural hegemony are recorded in the act of drawing. Finally, Amado Alfadni’s Black Holocaust Museum imagines a museum for the largely forgotten Herero and Namaqua Genocide in modern day Namibia, which served as a model for Hitler`s attempted extermination of European Jews.

References is curated by Egyptian artist Hala Elkoussy and Swiss artist Uriel Orlow. In this video, Elkoussy explains the development of the exhibition and its various projects.

                           [This video is produced by Medrar TV and is featured in partnership with Jadaliyya Culture.] 
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Oct 1, 2013 Lebanon
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A Scenography Workshop by Hussein Baydoun

A Scenography workshop by Hussein Baydoun

8-16 September 2013

Falaki Theater, Cairo, Egypt

 

Hussein Baydoun is a Lebanese artist, architect, and scenographer who is known for his unique approach to set design. Baydoun frequently participates in the creation and development of performances from their early stages with the view that scenography is an essential component to the creation of theatrical work, one no less important than the script. His designs are often inspired by the performance spaces in which he works, where he creates fascinating sets from whatever is available as he challenges conventional notions about theater production, such as in his most recent performance "Alice," which was produced in collaboration with Lebanese playwright and director Sawsan Bou Khaled. In September, Baydoun returned to Cairo to lead a scenography workshop following the same vision. At the American University in Cairo`s Falaki Theater, he worked with six upcoming set designers, in addition to amateurs, on creating imaginative environments from the remnants of old sets and other discarded objects. This video highlights the vision and development of the workshop as Baydoun describes the aim of his teaching methods.  


 

      

     [This video is produced by Medrar TV and is featured as part of a new partnership with Jadaliyya Culture.]