Sunday, January 30th at 7pm
Liberty Hall at the Ace Hotel
20 West 29th Street, New York
Free!
BLVCK EYE: A five-part film series presented by BLVCK AMERICA
Bidoun will be presenting a montage of some of our favorite off-kilter films from Bubu and beyond, followed by virtual dance lessons from Mohammad Khordadian.
Last year, we began the process of becoming a non-profit organization, to be known, officially, as Bidoun Projects. Today, Bidoun needs you more than ever. As we transition to non-profit status, Bidoun is at a critical point in its life — we need the support of readers like you to sustain our diverse activities. We have an immediate and urgent objective to raise $200,000 to take us into the new year. Our long-term goal is to create an endowment that will sustain us into the future. We can’t do it without you.
For each donation, we have a designed a unique set of benefits and gifts, starting from FOB (Friend of Bidoun) at the $50 level, to higher levels. Click here to see those benefits and make your contribution to Bidoun.
Nazlee Radboy’s contribution to Bidoun 16: KIDS is the “Best American Letter to the Editor,” according to the 2010 edition of the Best American Nonrequired Reading series, edited by Dave Eggers. Click here to read Nazlee’s letter.
Art Dubai
March 16-19, 2011
One again Bidoun Projects has been invited to partner with Art Dubai in bringing you a series of non-profit artist projects, screenings, and miscellaneous more with the theme of “SPORTS” — also the theme of our spring issue, to be launched at the fair.
2011 Bidoun Projects include the Art Park, an underground project space for film, video and talks, that features retrospectives of the work of two pivotal Egyptian artists, Sherif El Azma and Wael Shawky, curated by Bidoun’s Kaelen Wilson-Goldie and Sarah Rifky of the Townhouse Gallery, respectively, as well as a sports-themed video programme featuring a variety of artists including Ziad Antar, Mahmoud Hojeij, Van Leo, and Marwa and Mirene Arsenios.
Limited edition Bidoun trading cards will be distributed, too, and autograph sessions will be held throughout the fair featuring leading lights of the contemporary art world. Bidoun also presents a “live mural” painted and repainted each day throughout the fair by a group of distinguished artists — Dubai-based artist Rokni Haerizadeh and Tehran-based Ali Chitsaz among them — tasked with depicting the theme of “labor.”
The peripatetic Bidoun Library is back, too, featuring “The Natural Order,” a new section specially curated for the fair that focuses on printed material on the Gulf from the past five decades.
Also look out for a special appearance by the collective Slavs and Tatars in the Bidoun Library.
Finally, Bidoun Projects will present a special “Show & Tell” evening dedicated to highlighting Bidoun’s diverse activities past and present.
Exhibition: January 11 to February 18, 2011
Video Screeening and Talk: Wednesday January 12 at 6:00pm
The Delfina Foundation
29 Catherine Place, Victoria, London
The Best of Sammy Clark by Raed Yassin
The Best of Sammy Clark (2008) is a tribute to Sammy Clark, a 1980s Lebanese pop music icon and Raed Yassin’s fictive mentor. The installation suggests a contrived genealogy, which links Yassin to Clark, and explores the artist’s personal narrative, as well as the recent history of Lebanon, through the lens of consumer culture and mass production.
Sonic Grounds curated by Rayya Badran
A series of talks and performances throughout January and February 2011. Contributors include Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Mark Fisher, Raed Yassin, and Rayya Badran, the recipient of this year’s Bidoun/ Delfina New Writing Residency.
Sonic Grounds explores the intersection between popular music, radio and writing. The series of events unpacks some of the thoughts that emanate from The Best of Sammy Clark, by expanding the discussion to topics of popular culture, sampling and the politics of aurality in London and Beirut.
Video Screeening: Featuring Mahmoud Yassin
Wednesday 12 January 2011,
18:00 – 20:00, at The Delfina Foundation.
Four video works by Raed Yassin followed by a conversation between the artist and Rayya Badran. Free event. Rsvp required at rspv@delfinafoundation.com
Visit the Delfina website for more information
