21 May 2009 | Thursday 20:30
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Duration: 60-70'
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Walid Raad who is known for his several multi-disciplinary exhibitions offering profound commentaries on memory, history and archival research presents in Istanbul a lecture/performance. In this lecture, the artist and professor is excavating the "archives" of the use of car bombs in the 1975-1991 Lebanese wars - a theme that resonates deeply with the experiences of the un-illuminated recent history of Turkey.
This work is part of an on-going investigation by The Atlas Group into the events and experiences surrounding the use of car bombs in the 1975-1991 Lebanese wars. The Atlas Group examines the multiple dimensions of the wars and investigates the public and private discourses surrounding the 3600 car bombs that were detonated during this period.
In 2005, Tony Chakar, Bilal Khbeiz, and Walid Raad worked on the first of this multi-volume project. This research resulted in a 70-minute mixed media presentation/performance about the events, experiences, forms, and objects of a car bomb that detonated on January 21, 1986 in the Furn Ech Chubak area of Beirut.
A project by: The Atlas Group in collaboration with Tony Chakar, Bilal Khbeiz, and Walid Raad | Project co-produced by: The Atlas Group (Beirut / New York), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut), KunstenFestival des Arts (Brussels), House of World Cultures (Berlin), Spectacles Vivants, Centre Pompidou (Paris).
Walid Raad is an artist and an Associate Professor of Art in The Cooper Union (New York, USA). Raad's works include The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, and the ongoing project titled Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Arab World. His books include The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, and Let's Be Honest, The Weather Helped. Raad's works have been shown at Documenta 11 (Kassel, Germany), The Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy), The Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, Germany), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Homeworks (Beirut, Lebanon) and numerous other museums and venues in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Raad is also the recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts (2007), the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2007), and the Camera Austria Award (2005).
Further Reading:
Histories of Violence_Brooklyn Rail
Walid Raad-The Atlas Group_Frieze Magazine
Andre Lepecki (.PDF)
Art in America 2004 (.PDF)
Art Papers 02 72 (.PDF)
Art Papers 2007 (.PDF)
Art US 2005 (.PDF)
Artforum 2006 (.PDF)
Artforum 2008 (.PDF)
Artforum International 2003 (.PDF)
bidoun 02 72 (.PDF)
bomb 02 72 (.PDF)
Border Crossings 2005 (.PDF)
Parachute 2002 (.PDF)
prefix photo 02 72 (.PDF)
Village Voice 2006 (.PDF)
Al-Kassim, Dina. "Crisis of the Unseen." Parachute. October 2002 (108): 146-163.
Anton, Saul. "A Secret History." Frieze. January/February 2003 (72): 68-69.
Carlotti, Roberto. "Beirut, la Guerra in autobomba." Il Manifesto. 16 june 2004: 16.
Gilbert, Alan. "Walid Raad." Bomb. Fall 2002: 38-45.
Jones, Caroline. "Doubt Fear." Art Papers. January/February 2005: 24-35.
Kaplan, Janet. "Flirtations With Evidence." Art in America. October 2004: 134-139.
Rogers, Sarah. "Forging History, Performing Memory." Parachute. October 2002 (108): 68-79.
Root, Deborah. "Mapping the disaster." Prefix Photo. May 2003 (7): 30-41.
Siddiqui, Yasmeen and Hrag Vartanian. Walid Raad / The Atlas Group." The Brooklyn Rail. March 2006: 20-21.
Smith, Lee. "Missing in Action." Artforum. February 2003 (6): 124-129.
Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen. "Atlas Group Brings War Documents Home." The Daily Star. 8 May 2004: 12.
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