Bidoun Magazine » Events http://www.bidoun.org Bidoun Magazine — Art and culture from the Middle East Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:33:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Live Cinema/In the Round at the Philadelphia Museum of Art http://www.bidoun.org/events/live-cinemain-the-round-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/ http://www.bidoun.org/events/live-cinemain-the-round-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:26:28 +0000 admin http://www.bidoun.org/?p=2480 Live Cinema/In the Round: Contemporary Art from the East Mediterranean curated by November Paynter features the works of Ziad Antar, Inci Eviner, Gülsün Karamustafa, Hassan Khan, Maha Maamoun, and Christodoulos Panayiotou, six artists from the Eastern Mediterranean who, in varying ways, explore how the moving image informs representations of reality.

http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/737.html

]]> http://www.bidoun.org/events/live-cinemain-the-round-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/feed/ 0 Iranian Film Festival, San Francisco http://www.bidoun.org/events/iranian-film-festival-san-francisco/ http://www.bidoun.org/events/iranian-film-festival-san-francisco/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:41:51 +0000 admin http://www.bidoun.org/?p=2436 September 18-19, 2010
San Francisco Art institute

http://www.iranianfilmfestival.org

Iranian Film Festival (IFF) is an annual event showcasing the independent feature and short films made by or about the Iranians from around the world.

]]> http://www.bidoun.org/events/iranian-film-festival-san-francisco/feed/ 0 Tribute to the Masters: AnaPop, Istanbul http://www.bidoun.org/events/tribute-to-the-masters-anapop/ http://www.bidoun.org/events/tribute-to-the-masters-anapop/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:49:10 +0000 admin http://www.bidoun.org/?p=2416 Influenced by global musical trends, Turkish pop and rock of the 60’s and 70’s, could be defined as a psychedelic outburst of multi-ethnic Anatolian culture… AnaPop sets out to get younger generations acquainted with this unique genre through a combined event of one-off concerts, workshops, seminars and documentary screenings.

A full-length documentary and interdisciplinary book will subsequently support the AnaPop event featuring 4 days of concerts, performances, workshops and a range of exhibitions (including photographs, LP artworks and posters).
AnaPop provides a unique opportunity to see some of the most acclaimed performers of the period playing live whilst at the same time creating the right milieu to foster new music.

September 15th -16th -17th 2010: Workshops, Seminars, Documentary Screenings
Saturday September 18th, 2010: Concerts at İ.M.Ç 6. Blok Unkapanı, Istanbul
Concert day doors open: 16:00, until 00:00
Visit www.anapop.org for detailed information
Online ticket sales at www.biletix.com.

]]> http://www.bidoun.org/events/tribute-to-the-masters-anapop/feed/ 0 Toronto Palestine Film Festival http://www.bidoun.org/events/toronto-palestine-film-festival/ http://www.bidoun.org/events/toronto-palestine-film-festival/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:46:19 +0000 admin http://www.bidoun.org/?p=2414 The Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) is pleased to announce TPFF 2010 will take place on October 2-8, 2010.

http://tpff.ca

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New Museum (5th Floor)
August 4 — September 26, 2010
235 Bowery
New York, NY

The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum is a highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about, and around the Middle East. Arrayed along these shelves are pulp fictions and propaganda, monographs and guidebooks, and pamphlets and periodicals, on subjects ranging from the oil boom to the Dubai bust, the Cold War to the hot pant, Pan-Arabs to Black Muslims, revolutionaries to royals, and Orientalism to its opposites.

Most of the 700-odd titles on display were acquired specifically for this exhibition. The shape of the collection was dictated primarily by search terms on the World Wide Web rather than any intrinsic notion of aptness or excellence. Searching for “Arab,” “paperback,” “1970s,” and “<$3,” we acquired dozens of books about the Oil Crisis, the cruel love of the Sheikh, and the lifestyles of the nouveau riche. A similar search for “Iran” produced its own set of types and stereotypes. We did not set out to find the best books about, say, the Iranian revolution; in a sense, we looked for the worst. Or, rather, we tried to look at what was there.

The result is less a coherent group of titles or texts than an assortment of books as things, sorted roughly into four themes or units. Catalogues hang from the ceiling in front of each shelf cluster. Inside is a documentation of a selection of books from that shelf, in dialogue with excerpted texts and images from the library as a whole.

The Bidoun Library includes a program of Iranian film, video, and television culled from low-fidelity DVDs and VHS tapes that circulate among Iranians in the Diaspora. The selection includes post-revolutionary variety shows, music videos, and other totems of middlebrow—unibrow?—culture. This is an Iranian cinema unlikely to be shown at Lincoln Center.

]]> http://www.bidoun.org/events/bidoun-library-at-the-new-museum/feed/ 0 ‘Yek, do, se’ at LACMA, Los Angeles http://www.bidoun.org/events/yek-do-se-at-lacma-los-angeles/ http://www.bidoun.org/events/yek-do-se-at-lacma-los-angeles/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:39:08 +0000 admin http://bidoun.com/bdn/?p=2195 ‘Yek, do, se’
Bahman Jalali, Yassaman Ameri, Samira Alikhanzadeh
10 July — 5 December, 2010
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

]]> http://www.bidoun.org/events/yek-do-se-at-lacma-los-angeles/feed/ 0 Pearls on the Ocean Floor at LACMA, Los Angeles http://www.bidoun.org/events/pearls-on-the-ocean-floor-at-lacma-los-angeles/ http://www.bidoun.org/events/pearls-on-the-ocean-floor-at-lacma-los-angeles/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:33:58 +0000 admin http://bidoun.com/bdn/?p=2191 Robert Adanto’s new documentary Pearls on the Ocean Floor features interviews with some of the most highly regarded Iranian female artists living and working in and outside the Islamic Republic, including Shadi Ghadirian, Shirin Neshat, Parastou Forouhar, Haleh Anvari, Sara Rahbar, Leila Pazooki, Afshan Ketabchi, Malekeh Nayiny, Bahar Sabzevari, Afsoon, Gohar Dashti, Pooneh Maghazehe, Mona Hakimi-Schuler, Taravat Talepasand, and Shadi Yousefian and Negar Ahkami. This screening takes place in conjunction with LACMA’s installation: Yek, Do, Se: Three Contemporary Iranian Artists , which features Yassaman Ameri, Bahman Jalali and Samira Alikhanzadeh.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Robert Adanto; Pearls on the Ocean Floor; Free; http://www.lacma.org

]]> http://www.bidoun.org/events/pearls-on-the-ocean-floor-at-lacma-los-angeles/feed/ 0 ‘Antiphotojournalism’ at La Virreina Centre de l’Image, Barcelona http://www.bidoun.org/events/antiphotojournalism-at-la-virreina-centre-de-limage-barcelona/ http://www.bidoun.org/events/antiphotojournalism-at-la-virreina-centre-de-limage-barcelona/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:09:30 +0000 admin http://bidoun.com/bdn/?p=2169 Exhibition curated by Carles Guerra and Thomas Keenan.

The exhibition includes work by Paul Lowe, Phil Collins, Gilles Peress, Gilles Saussier, Paul Fusco, Laura Kurgan, Oliver Chanarin and Adam Broomberg, Clemente Bernad, Allan Sekula, Hito Steyerl, Kadir van Lohuizen, Goran Galic and Gian-Reto Gredig, Renzo Martens, Peter Piller, Walid Raad, and Harun Farocki; archives collected by Mauro Andrizzi, Ministry of Public Works and Housing (Gaza Strip), Ariella Azoulay, Susan Meiselas, and Sohrab Mohebbi; music videos edited by Jonathan Cavender, Robbie Wright, and Shane McDonald.

La Virreina Centre de l’Image; Antiphotojournalism; Various; 5 July — 10 October 2010; http://antiphotojournalism.blogspot.com

]]> http://www.bidoun.org/events/antiphotojournalism-at-la-virreina-centre-de-limage-barcelona/feed/ 0 ‘The Absolutely Other’ at The Kitchen, New York http://www.bidoun.org/events/the-absolutely-other-at-the-kitchen-new-york/ http://www.bidoun.org/events/the-absolutely-other-at-the-kitchen-new-york/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:32:25 +0000 admin http://bidoun.com/bdn/?p=2166 This group exhibition features New York-based artists who make work with, for, and about strangers. For each video, photograph, installation, and performance, artists cast out lines to remote neighbors who (wittingly or not) become active partners in creating the work. The resulting projects realign and sometimes undermine extant social relations and artistic intentions, engaging and confounding issues of authorship, exchange, generosity, and chance. Interactions both off site and within the gallery will continuously shape the exhibition’s content over the course of the show. The artists in the exhibition include: Einat Amir, Daniel Bozhkov, Xavier Cha, Eteam, Hope Hilton, Nancy Hwang, and Dave McKenzie.

Opening Reception: Friday, June 25, 6-8pm

The Kitchen; The absolutely Other; Various; 25 June — 7 August, 2010; http://www.thekitchen.org

]]> http://www.bidoun.org/events/the-absolutely-other-at-the-kitchen-new-york/feed/ 0 ‘Heat Wave’ at Lombard-Freid Projects, New York http://www.bidoun.org/events/heat-wave-at-lombard-freid-projects-new-york/ http://www.bidoun.org/events/heat-wave-at-lombard-freid-projects-new-york/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:26:14 +0000 tomfrancis http://bidoun.com/bdn/?p=2163 Fikret Atay, Bani Abidi, Maya Schindler, Eko Nugroho, Mounira al Solh and Noa Charuvi

Lombard-Freid Projects; Heat Wave; Various; 17 June — 30 July, 2010; http://www.lombard-freid.com

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