A collection of videos documenting various events, interviews, announcements or elements from various exhibitions.
Modernizing Collaborations in West Beirut: Farid Haddad and Jay Zerbe (1969-1970)
FALL 2020, AUB Art Galleries (Online)
At the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, the Beirut artistic scene witnessed a series of artistic collaborations. At the heart of these exchanges were two young artists: one Lebanese and one American.
Video of Online Discussion
The Naïve Arab Artist: Naïf, Outsider, and Art Brut from the Middle East
SPRING 2020 (AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery, Beirut)
The video tour of the exhibition The Naive Arab Artist was produced by Zenn al Charif and Sandra Kastoun. Voice by Angela Harutyunyan.
Video Interview with Adachi Masao. Tokyo, 2018.
The interview was part of the exhibition Cut / Gash / Slash—Adachi Masao—A Militant Theory of Landscape produced at AUB Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum Beirut.
Mashrou' Proletkult (Project Proletkult)
SUMMER 2016, AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery
Mashrou' Proletkult is an exhibition and one-day congress. The exhibition is an invitation to every artist to display his or her artwork at AUB; the Mashrou’ Proletkult All-Artist-Congress offers every artist present at this event the opportunity to deliver a speech on a relevant topic of his or her choosing.
Animating Duchamp's "The Creative Act"
An animation of Marcel Duchamp's photo and voice reading Duchamp's text "The Creative Act" in 1957. The video was made for the exhibition "Critical Machines" produced at the American University of Beirut Art Galleries in 2015.
Slide show of John Carswell artworks.
AUB Art Galleries, Beirut 2015
This video shows the art of the British artist and scholar John Carswell. Carswell graduated in 1951 from the Royal College of Art in London, and instead of setting out to conquer the British art world, ruled at the time by local social realists, he embarked on a steamboat and entered the Middle East through the port of Beirut. For almost six decades now, John Carswell has been studying this region, following on the heels of his lifelong source of inspiration, the medieval Islamic explorer Ibn Battuta.
Profiles: Collecting Art in Lebanon
APRIL 5 – AUGUST 24, 2013 (AUB Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum Beirut)
The American University of Beirut Art Gallery presents the exhibition Profiles: Collecting Art in Lebanon. The exhibition examines practices of art collecting and art patronage in contemporary Lebanon. On display are ten video interviews conducted with private art collectors and inheritors of collections including Saleh Barakat, Anachar Basbous, Georges Corm, Raymond Audi, Abraham Karabajakian, Ramzi Saidi and Afaf Osseiran Saidi and Tony Salamé. The art critic and publisher Cesar Nammour offers a historical perspective on the practice of art collecting, while Zeina Arida of the Arab Image Foundation speaks about collecting as an artistic strategy. Dima Raad, of the Ministry of Culture of Lebanon, also offers her perspective. On the lower floor of the gallery, the house of a Lebanese art collector—inspired by the home of the collector Samir Saleeby—has been reconstructed.
Georges Corm
Saleh Barakat
Abraham Karabajakian
Ramzi Saidi
Tony Salamé
Raymond Audi
Dima Raad
Anachar Basbous
Cesar Namour
Gioconda’s Smile: from mythic to techno ritual (International performance art festival – the third annual exhibition of SCCA Chisinau)
1998 SCCA, Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau Moldova
First festival of performance art in Moldova.
Pune Ochiul photography exhibition
Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau 1997
Curated by Bradley Adams.
CarbonART-97: Summer Camp for Artists
Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Ungheni, Moldova 1997
The second artist colony called CarbonART took place in the summer of 1997. For this edition of Carbonart the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) Chișinău has invited artists from neighboring countries: Odessa (Ukraine) and from different regions of Romania.
Kilometrul 6/The 6th Kilometer (The First Annual Exhibition of SCCA-Chisinau)
1996 SCCA, Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau Moldova
The first annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art (Chișinău) opened on November 14, 1996 in the main exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Moldova under the title Kilometrul 6 (The 6th Kilometer). Most of the participating artists had already been part of the Carbonart 96 artist camp, and a few of the exhibited works were in fact produced during that summer retreat (see Carbonart 96). For this first annual exhibition, the SCCA rented the Union of Artists’ main exhibition hall, and commissioned works by way of offering grants to a select group of Moldovan artists. The latter were intended exclusively for the production and display of works of contemporary art, as this phrase was inscribed in the name and the mission statement of the newly established art center.
Video of CarbonART-96: Summer Camp for Artists
Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Sadova Calarasi, Moldova 1996
The artist colony CarbonART took place in the summer of 1996 in an abandoned Soviet Young Pioneers summer camp near Sadova (Călărași, Moldova). CarbonART-96 was first of its kind in Moldova, and even though “artist camps” or literally “camps of creation” (as these artist retreats or colonies were often called: tăbără de creație in Romanian, or tvorcheskii lager’ in Russian) were fairly common in the USSR and other socialist and non-socialist states, this one differed in specifically targeting and inviting “artists who worked with new concepts and modes of artistic expression,” as the newspaper ad posted by the organizer – the recently founded Soros Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) Chișinău – stated.