international symposium
PLACES
Home Workspace,
Jisr el Wati, Street 90,
Building 110, 1st Floor, Beirut 2066 8421
Jisr el Wati, bldg 13,
Street 97, zone 66 adlieh,
Beirut
El Zarif, Abdelkader Street
Tél. +96103 412659
SPEAKERS
Ziad Antar artist
George Arbid architect, professor of architecture and of design at the American University of Beirut
Marwa Arsanios artist
Kader Attia artist
Christian Barani artist
Stefanie Baumann Phd candidate in aesthetics at the Université Paris VIII and teaches at the ALBA (Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts) and in the Homeworks Program in Beirut
François Bellenger artist
Filip Berte artist
Cécile Bourgade Phd candidate in aesthetics at the Université de Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne
Denis Briand lecturer in Visual Arts, Université Rennes 2, co-director of the Galerie Art & Essai and artist
Habib Debs architect and urbanist, founder of the URBI agency in Paris and Beirut
Marcel Dinahet artist
Maïder Fortuné artist
Marion Hohlfeldt lecturer in Art History, Université Rennes 2, co-director of the Galerie Art & Essai
Hatem Imam artist
Lamia Joreige artist
Valérie Jouve artist
Brent Klinkum director of Transat projects in Caen, France
Jan Kopp artist
Lia Lapithi artist
Daniel Lê artist and teaches Visual Arts, Université Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
Mina Marefat architect, historian, professor in Georgetown University, Washington, USA
Françoise Parfait professor of Visual Arts and new media at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and artist
Caecilia Pieri responsable of the Observatoire urbain au Proche-Orient at the Institut français du Proche-Orient in Beirut
Claudia Polledri Phd student in comparative Literature and Art history, université de Montréal, Canada
Mousbah Rajab architect et urbanist, lecturer at the département d’urbanisme de l’Institut des beaux-arts, université Libanaise de Beyrouth
Youssef Tohmé architect, director of an eponimic Agency in Beirut and Paris
Eric Valette, lecturer in Visual Arts, Université de Picardie Jules Verne and artist
Christophe Viart professor in Visual Arts, Université Rennes 2 and at the Ecole des beaux-arts de Rennes, and artist
Armin Linke, «Alpi», 2011 (© Armin Linke)
Basma Alsharif- Home Movie Gaza, 2012 (© Basma Alsharif)
Valérie Jouve, Traversée, 2012 (© Galerie Xippas)
Jordi Colomer - Anarchitekton-Brasilia, 2002 (© Jordi Colomer)
Gymnase de Le Corbusier à Bagdad (Irak) (© Caecilia Pieri / Fondation Le Corbusier).
A proposal by the collectif Suspended spaces
REGARDING SUSPENDED
ARCHITECTURE IN LEBANON
Symposium
Beirut april 18 – 21, 2013
Places
Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Art Center and Mansion, Beirut, International Fair, Tripoli.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY APRIL 18
Ashkal Alwan
« Introductions »
10h30
Opening of the symposium Christine Tohmé, founder and Director of Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts in Beirut, and Director of the Home Workspace Program and Françoise Parfait, Member of the Suspended spaces collective.
Presentation of the Mansion project by Sandra Iché and Ghassan Maasri.
10h45
Presentation of the Suspended spaces project by the collective
11h30
« Rashid Karamé International Fair.
A site threatened by "revitalization" projects »,Mousbah Rajab
« Representations »
14h00
"The Fair in the urban planning of Tripoli", Habib Debs
14h45
« Downtown Beirut- Robert Frank and Gabriele Basilico », Claudia Polledri
15h30
"Partners in crime. About the complicity between photography and urban space in surrealists and certain post-war Lebanese artists ", Stefanie Baumann
16h45
« Limits » Youssef Tohmé
17h30
Round table with the artists of the project: « art as research »
Moderators : Jan Kopp and Eric Valette
Artists : Ziad Antar, Marwa Arsanios, Christian Barani, François Bellenger, Filip Berte, Marcel Dinahet, Maïder Fortuné, Hatem Imam, Lamia Joreige, Valérie Jouve, Lia Lapithi, Daniel Lê, Françoise Parfait, Christophe Viart.
FRIDAY APRIL 19
Ashkal Alwan
«Spaces of the withdrawal»
10 h
« Intervals: the suspension of uncertain spaces» Marion Hohlfeldt
11h15
Projection of the film Alpi (2011 / 64 min / french subtitles), d’Armin Linke
12h15
Talk about Alpi with Françoise Parfait and Brent Klinkum
« Crossing territories, represented territories »
15h00
• Projection of Home Movies Gaza (2012 / 23 min / english subtitles) by Basma Alsharif
• «Suspended spaces and mapping, lacuna in the territories...», Denis Briand
16h45
• Projection of Traversée 2012 / 18 min / french subtitles) by Valérie Jouve
Talk with Valérie Jouve and Denis Briand
17h45 (english)
« Liminal », Hatem Imam and Ziad Antar
SATURDAY APRIL 20
Beirut Art Center
« Moderns »
13h30
Projections around Oscar Niemeyer.
Anarchitekton Brasilia by Jordi Colomer (2002-2004 / 3 min 45) ; excerps of Oscar Niemeyer, un architecte dans le siècle by Marc-Henri Wajnberg (2000 / 86 min) and L’Homme de Rio by Philippe de Broca (1964 / 110 min) and a few surprises.
14h45
«Oscar Niemeyer, an inscription in Brazilian modernity» Cécile Bourgade
15h30
«The International fair of Tripoli by Oscar Niemeyer, a Lebanese heritage
George Arbid
16h45
«Le Corbusier, a Swiss in the desert» Kader Attia
17h30
«The gymnasium of Le Corbusier in Baghdad, a story in suspens since 1956»
Mina Marefat et Caecilia Pieri
SUNDAY APRIL 21
Mansion
closed Session
10h30
« Edition / publication »
Roundtable with the artists of the projectTable ronde avec les artistes du projet, to invent a form for the publication which will follow the symposium and the residency
International Fair of Tripoli
Closed Session
13h30
Collective departure for Tripoli on the site of Oscar Niemeyer.
Promenade and discussion on the site with George Arbid, Habib Debs and Mousbah Rajab.
(© Françoise Parfait)
(© Daniel Lê)
