Rana Hamadeh
Rana Hamadeh is a performance and visual artist from Beirut currently based in Amsterdam.
Interested in curation as an artistic practice, she works on long term discursive projects that comprise several levels of collaboration, and involve lecture-performances, installations, conversations and audio/text based works.
Researching modes of articulation and interpretation ‘as’, or in terms of capital, is the subtext that generally underlies her work. She focuses on speech, conversations and the format of the 'artist talk' as artistic media, questioning with that the conditions of spectatorship, and the boundaries, mechanisms, and authority of meaning production.
She initiated in 2008 GRAPHIS Nº 127 as an umbrella under which she has been producing several works.
Her works have been shown in the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, New Museum, New York, and Beirut Art Center, Beirut, among other places. She graduated in 2009 from the Dutch Art Institute/Enschede.
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Call it a cat when it grins
Rana Hamadeh
Call it A Cat when it Grins: GRAPHIS N° 127
A Reading-Performance by Rana Hamadeh
In one of his musings, bedridden French poet Joë Bousquet, shot in a battle during World War I, pronounces himself destined to become the offspring of his wound; that ‘[his] wound existed before [him], [he] was born to embody it’.
Contemplating the ‘wound’ in relation to such a counter-intuitive statement, Rana Hamadeh’s reading-performance will set off a trail of questions and associations that reflect upon the ethics of masquerade: the role-play between bodies and events, absences and presences, language and the objects of language.
Taking a graphic design magazine penetrated during the Lebanese civil war by a bullet, as its point of departure, Hamadeh’s non-academic theoretical reading-performance Call it A Cat when it Grins: GRAPHIS Nº 127 will question the constructions of history and futurity through the play among several tenses, telling lies, believing them, posing questions, answering some and regretting answering the rest, building, demolishing, hesitating, killing, living and letting live, becoming Alice, becoming a cat, grinning, masquerading, etc.
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VIDEO CLIPS MADE BY MARGAUX VENDASSI
http://vimeo.com/24195255
http://vimeo.com/24225602
Regards Croisés
Yaïr Barelli, RSJ Works / Human Works, Rana Hamadeh, Maud Vanhauwaert, Marjolijn Van Heemstra, Le bruit des nuages, L'Employeur, Institut des Recherches Menant à Rien - IRMAR, Alexander Schellow
The same video material is sent to each invited artist one month and a half prior to the festival.
Each can use it anyway they want to come up with a spontaneous artistic act in return: extension, disruption, diversion… of the movie clip.
The open artistic act can be a text, a video, a photograph, a collective or individual proposal on stage, etc.
Each artist or artistic team will show their act during the closing night of this third edition, on Saturday, May 28, 2011.
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Bulles d'artistes
Yaïr Barelli, RSJ Works / Human Works, Rana Hamadeh, Marjolijn Van Heemstra, Le bruit des nuages, Alexander Schellow
Venues and times vary for each artist
Over the course of the 9 days of the festival, the Artists' Bubbles are special moments when spectators and artists can talk.
The artists present their references and sources of inspiration as a way of understanding their artistic world and give an insight into their background (other works by the artist, influences, culture…)
This is yet another way for the spectator to make the most of Rencontres//03.
Please meet us:
Friday 20 May at 19h00: Marjolijn Van Heemstra - La Friche – Hall de la Cartonnerie
Friday 20 May at 20h00: L'IRMAR – during a meal organized by the artistic team as part of the Banquets des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine – price to be defined - ART-CADE Gallery
Monday 23 May at 7.30pm: Yaïr Barelli - La Friche – Hall de la Cartonnerie
Wednesday 25 May at 19h00: RSJ Works / Human Works - La Friche – Hall de la Cartonnerie
Wednesday 25 May at 19h00: Rana Hamadeh - cipM
Thursday 26 May at 19h00: Le Bruit des nuages - La Friche – Hall de la Cartonnerie
Friday 27 May at 19h00: Alexander Schellow (invited sociologist: Sylvie Mazzella) - HO Gallery
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