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SurSock muSeum Programseptember – december 2017

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Khalil ZgaibThe Bridge, undated, circa 1955-75oil on masonite, 68 × 128 cmSursock museum collectionPurchased by the museum, 1975

The Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum is a modern and contemporary art museum in the center of Beirut first opened in 1961, with a mission to collect, preserve, and exhibit local and international art.

Through our collection, archives, exhibitions, and public programs, we aim to produce knowledge on art practices in the region and explore work that reflects on our contempo-rary moment. Our goal is to support local art production, to provide a platform for encounter and experimentation with art and ideas, and to inform and challenge different audiences in new and unexpected ways.

Exhibitions and displays 3

public program

Tours 8

conferences 9

Talks 10

film program 12

family program 15

parallEl public program: 16 acT ii of sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj

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Exhibitions and displaysFruit of Sleepcurated by reem faddapart of act ii program of Tamawuj, sharjah biennial 13 14 october – 31 December 2017special exhibitions hall, level -2

To sleep is a necessity. The world of dreams – the realm of the subconscious – is actively seeking answers in what is otherwise subliminally known. Thoughts roam free, untied, unrestrained within sleep’s own logic and visual landscape.

In The Book of Sleep, Haitham Al Wardany talks about the necessity of sleep to achieve a true awakening. He references the sleeper as a doer and a thinker, conflating sleep with the act of planning revolutions. What are the aesthetic methodologies that can take shape out of our collective state of falling in and out of sleep? Can a body in the states of sleep and awakening become a social and mobilized body?

The Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj, explores and provokes questions around the constructed and intuitive ways of being in our environment, sur-roundings, and community. In BAHAR, the SB13 off-site project in Istanbul, curator Zeynep Öz focused on the keyword “crops” and used the no-tion of seed dormancy to reflect on the different states of sleep, temporary arrest and periods of waiting, whether psychological, social or cultural.

This final chapter of the biennial, focusing on the keyword “culinary,” picks up on this thread of dormancy, looking at states from sleep to diges-tion, and our embodied experience in the shifting vocabulary of art practices that beckon for more.

This exhibition is part of Act II, the final program of Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial 13 (SB13). Act II takes place from 16-22 October 2017 in parallel to the SB13 Beirut off-site project around the keyword “culinary,” conceived by Ashkal Alwan.

Curated by Christine Tohme, Sharjah Biennial 13 has been unfolding in five parts from October 2016 to October 2017. The biennial encompasses exhibitions and a public program in two acts in Sharjah and Beirut; a year-long educational

program in Sharjah; off-site projects in Dakar, Ramallah, Istanbul, and Beirut; and an online publishing platform tamawuj.org

Reem Fadda is an independent curator, based between Amman and Ramallah. From 2010-2016, Fadda worked at the Guggenheim Museum as Associate Curator, Middle Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project. From 2005 to 2007, Fadda was Director of the Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art (PACA) and worked as Academic Director for the International Academy of Art Palestine, which she helped found in 2006. Recent exhibitions include Jerusalem Lives (Tahya Al Quds) at The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit (2017); Not New Now, 6th Marrakech Biennale (2016); and the United Arab Emirates National Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale (2012). Fadda was awarded the 8th Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2017.

Christine Tohme is the director of The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan, a nonprofit organisation established in Beirut 1993 that supports contemporary artistic practice. She is the recipient of the Prince Claus Award (2006) and CCS Bard Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence (2015). Tohme is curator of Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj, taking place between October 2016 to October 2017.

#fruitofsleep #sharjahbiennial #sb13 #tamawuj #sharjahartfoundation #sursockmuseum

ali cherristill life, 2017Lightbox, Duratrans photographic print, 150 × 90 cmcourtesy of the artist and Galerie Imane Farès

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monira al Qadiri the craftco-commissioned by the sursock museum and gasworks3 november 2017 – 5 february 2018Twin galleries, gf

The Sursock Museum presents The Craft, Monira Al Qadiri’s first solo show in Lebanon.

The exhibition comprises works in sculpture, video and sound that envisage international di-plomacy as an alien conspiracy. Shown in two distinct environments – a mysterious, pitch-black anteroom and an American diner – these semi-au-tobiographical pieces of science fiction unearth the unlikely stories lurking in the shadows of the artist’s childhood in Kuwait. In the VHS video The Craft (2017), presented in the diner, the artist asks: “Were my parents conspiring with aliens behind my back?” Reality crumbles, paranoia and speculation take hold. Pop culture, futuristic architecture, junk food, dream readings, alien abductions, geopolitics, diplomacy, war and peace: all of these once solid staples of modern life become tainted by a general sense of distrust.Leaving the diner, we encounter The End (2017), a dimly lit, levitating hamburger.

Arguably the most iconic symbol of consumer capitalism, here the burger is associated with the Japanese Ukiyo-e: pictures of hedonistic,

“floating worlds” that became popular amongst the merchant classes in seventeenth- and eigh-teenth-century Japan. The crude mechanics of suspension reveal, however, the precarious-ness of American cultural hegemony – a point brought home by the accompanying sound piece: a pre-recorded, voice-manipulated reading of an excerpt from The Kuwait Urbanization by Saba George Shiber, a book about the modernization of Kuwait in the 1960s.

The Craft was first presented at Gasworks, London, in the framework of Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture, 2017.

Monira Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. In 2010, she received a Ph.D. in inter-media art from Tokyo University of the Arts, where her research was focused on the aesthetics of sadness in the Middle East stemming from poetry, music, art, and religious practices. Her work explores un-conventional gender identities, petrocultures and their possible futures, as well as the lega-cies of corruption. She is also part of the artist collective GCC.

monira al Qadiriomen (installation view), 2017Neon sign, dimensions variablePresented as part of The Craft at Gasworks, London, 2017Photo: Andy keate

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Click, Click: The repetition of Photographic Subject matter in the 19th Centurya selection of images from the Fouad debbas collection3 november 2017 – 5 february 2018The fouad Debbas collection gallery, level 1

They all deal with the same subject matter! Félix and Adrien Bonfils, Tancrède Dumas, and Jean-Baptiste Charlier all share a more or less identical repertoire of images.

Like tourists checking off visited sites, pho-tographers based in the Middle East in the 19th century roamed the land with the aim of sharing views from across the Orient with a Western audience. In this way, Baalbek, Palmyra, Beirut, Damascus, and Jerusalem became topoi, or commonplaces.

Prints of these sites – some inhabited, some desert – proliferated with each new visit, and met certain criteria aiming to evoke either a Bedouin Orient frozen in time, or on the con-trary, a modernizing Orient. Whatever message these photographers intended to convey, they all copied each other, contributing thereby to the creation of a common imaginary.

Eight Stories from the Sursock museum Collectionstarting 15 september 2017collection galleries, level 2

The Sursock Museum’s permanent collection con-sists of works acquired by or donated to the mu-seum since it first opened in 1961. The collection is mainly composed of paintings, graphic works, sculptures, and other three-dimensional objects.

This new hang of the permanent collection takes the form of eight stories told by 22 artists. They, at times, are in dialogue around a specific theme, or else reject and disregard one another. The stories are inspired from research in the Sursock Museum’s archives. This by no means exhaus-tive research evokes a history fragmented in time and space, comprised of eight chapters which open up to a broader reflection. An addi-tional section is dedicated to recent acquisitions and donations, to be exhibited in rotation.

#sursockmuseum #sursockmuseumcollection #8stories

attributed to Félix bonfilsBalbek. pierre du midi, monolithe, circa 1867-1876Albumen print mounted on board, in album, 35 × 47 cmThe Fouad Debbas collection / Sursock museum

Etel adnanleporello with written poems by issa makhlouf, drawings, 2001Accordion-folded booklet, 17.8 × 194 cmSursock museum collectionGifted by the artist, 2016

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Partitions et Couleurs hommage à amine El bacha in collaboration with the amine El bacha FoundationWith the support of banque libano-Française15 september 2017 – 12 march 2018collection galleries, level 1

Partitions et Couleurs : Hommage à Amine El Bacha is the first exhibition in a cycle of hom-ages to artists represented in the collections of the Sursock Museum.

A leading figure on the Lebanese artistic scene, Amine El Bacha (b. 1932, Beirut) lives and works in Beirut. After studies at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in Beirut, and both the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, El Bacha later trained several generations of now renowned Lebanese artists.

This tribute brings together a series of oil paint-ings, watercolors, and painted wooden objects created between the 1960s and the first decade of the 21st century.

From his earliest abstract works, El Bacha’s com-positions are festive, with colors that vibrate and dance around each other. His compartmentalized compositions question academic landscapes com-posed of trees and horizons. El Bacha’s favorite music, along with traditional religious scenes such as The Last Supper, are also presented in this exhibition-homage. After all, to view the works of El Bacha is also to accept an invitation into a fantasy world.

#amineelbacha #hommage #partitionsetcouleurs #sursockmuseum #blflebanon

amine El bacha, l’île [The island], 2008oil on canvas, 127 × 151.5 cm Amine el Bacha Foundation collection, Beirut

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Les mondes de Willy aractingi9 june – 18 september 2017special exhibitions hall, level -2

Les Mondes de Willy Aractingi is an exhibition devoted to the work of painter Willy Aractingi (1930-2003). Self-taught, Aractingi has often been labeled as a naive or primitive artist; this exhibition looks to take a more nuanced approach, and features more than 120 works created between 1973 and 2003.

This exhibition follows a generous donation of 224 oil paintings to the Sursock Museum by the Aractingi family. Each painting illustrates one of de la Fontaine’s fables. A major achievement in Aractingi’s artistic life, he began the series in 1989 and completed it on the 300th anniversary of the writer’s death in 1995.

#willyaractingi #lesmondesdewillyaractingi #sursockmuseum

Hrair Sarkissian homesick7 july – 2 october 2017Twin galleries, gf

Hrair Sarkissian’s work is often based on his personal relationships to geographies and people. Frequently produced with a large format cam-era, his carefully crafted photographs enable a deeper engagement with a scene, allowing a slow unfolding of revelatory details, conjuring up elided histories and forgotten places. Sarkissian is concerned with minor histories, everyday sto-ries that too often disappear without celebration or remorse.

This exhibition marks his engagement with the moving image, created with the same studied craft as his large-scale photographs. The two related video installations, Homesick (2014) and Horizon (2016), both speak of journeys taken in response to the war in Syria.

#hrairsarkissian #homesick #sursockmuseum

Visit Beirut! postcards and travel guides from the Fouad debbas collection 24 february – 2 october 2017The fouad Debbas collection gallery, level 1

As early as 1865, seven passenger lines began to regularly service Beirut. The modest lodg-ings hitherto available to travelers, the locandas, were to evolve.

In just a few years, hotels proliferated, along with travel agencies set up on the quays. Through postcards, guides, and other publications from

The Fouad Debbas Collection (available for con-sultation at the Sursock Museum library), picture yourself as a tourist in early 20th century Beirut, and begin by choosing your hotel.

#hotels #tfdc #sursockmuseum

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toursCollection Toursaturday 16 september, 16:00 to 17:00 in french Thursday 5 october, 18:00 to 19:00 in englishThursday 16 november, 18:00 to 19:00 in arabicmeeting point: information Desk, gffree admission spaces limited. first-come, first-served.

Led by Head of Collections Yasmine Chemali and the Sursock Museum’s docents, these tours guide you through the Museum’s new collection display, Eight Stories from the Sursock Museum Collection, giving insights into its history and highlighting key works on display.

Tour: Partitions et Couleurs : Hommage à amine El Bachasaturday 16 september, 17:00 to 18:00 in frenchThursday 5 october, 19:00 to 20:00 in englishThursday 16 november, 19:00 to 20:00 in arabicmeeting point: collection galleries, level 1free admission spaces limited. first-come, first-served.

Join us for a tour of Partitions et Couleurs : Hommage à Amine El Bacha. Led by Angelina El Bacha and the Sursock Museum’s docents, this tour will explore the main themes and ideas behind the exhibition.

amine El bachalumière hivernale [winter light], 1992oil on canvas, 94.5 × 149.5 cmAmine el Bacha Foundation collection, Beirut

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conFErEncEsContextualizing the art Salon in the arab region in partnership with the orient-institut beirutWith the support of the Volkswagen Foundationfriday 27 october, 10:00 to 17:00 at the orient-institut Beirut, library saturday 28 october, 10:00 to 17:00 sursock museum, auditorium, level -2 in englishfree admission

Join us for a two-day symposium that aims to contextualize the art salon in the Arab region.

The symposium brings together research-ers, curators, artists and critics to discuss the emergence of the art salon in the region in the colonial and post-colonial context, reflect on knowledge circulations between Europe and the Middle East, and deliberate the function of the art salon within the context of a museum

and its collection today. The symposium will encourage exchanges between researchers, curators, and art critics, and build important networks that both sides will be able to draw on in the future. To disseminate the research findings, a publication will be prepared coming out of the symposium, to be published in time for the Sursock Museum’s next Salon d’Automne in November 2018.

Confirmed speakers include Amin Alsaden, Monique Bellan, Yasmine Chemali, Eileen Cooper, Catherine Cornet, Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi, Alain Messaoudi, Morad Montazami, Camilla Murgia, Maria-Mirka Palioura, Nadia Radwan, Dina Ramadan, Ghalya Saadawi, Nada Shabout, and Nadia von Maltzahn.

Please check our website for the full program and final list of speakers.

from right to left: roger Van gingerteal and william Townsend, president and Vice president of the jury of the 5th salon d’automne at the sursock museum (1965-1966)Sursock museum collection

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talKsSwiss art Talks: Tobias Winkelmannswiss architecture in lebanon: herzog & de meuron’s beirut terracesin partnership with the Embassy of switzerland in lebanon With the support of association philippe JabreThursday 28 september, 19:00 to 20:30 auditorium, level -2 in englishfree admission

The project Beirut Terraces, a 119-meter tall high-rise, was designed by Herzog & de Meuron, and completed in fall 2016. The building is lo-cated in Mina el Hosn in Beirut’s central district.

The rich and diverse cultural layers that have shaped Beirut’s history have inspired the design of this residential tower, where the apartments’

large terraces offer broad views over the city and the sea. Characteristic part of the design are the diverse white slab edges, which show the individuality and the variety of each apartment. Indoor and outdoor spaces merge into each other so that the large terraces become living spaces.

Beirut Terracescourtesy of Herzog & de meuron

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artist Talk: monira al QadiriThursday 2 november, 19:00 to 20:00 auditorium, level -2 in englishfree admission

To mark the opening of her solo show, The Craft, Monira Al Qadiri will speak about the themes and processes behind her work.

Monira Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. Her work ex-plores unconventional gender identities, petro-cultures and their possible futures, as well as the legacies of corruption. She is also part of the artist collective GCC.

Swiss art Talks: mirjam Varadinis(per)forming resistancein partnership with the Embassy of switzerland in lebanon With the support of association philippe JabreThursday 12 october, 19:00 to 20:30 auditorium, level -2 in englishfree admission

Having reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, performance art is once again playing an im-portant part in contemporary art practices, as a younger generation of artists rediscovers the medium of performance and process-oriented artworks. They address socio-political issues

such as the refugee crisis, the rise of right-wing populist parties, and the questioning of funda-mental democratic values that interfere with our everyday reality.

This talk focuses on the means through which performative strategies act as a form of resis-tance, presenting both historical positions as well as recent work by contemporary artists.

Mirjam Varadinis is an art historian and a cu-rator at Kunsthaus Zürich since September 2002. There, she has curated numerous exhibitions, including Action! (2017), which focuses on per-formative strategies. In 2018, Varadinis will be one of the curators of Manifesta 12 in Palermo.

gianni mottipre-emptive act, 2008Performance in the framework of the exhibition Shifting Identities (2008) at the Zurich Airport

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Film programauditorium, level -2free admission

aFaC Film Nights A monthly series of screenings showcasing filmmakers from the Arab world, in partnership with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC).

screening 1: From my syrian room Directed by hazem alhamwi, 2014wednesday 13 september, 19:00 to 20:30in arabic with english subtitles color, 70’

The year 2011 witnessed the beginning of un-precedented social movement in Syria after 40 years of political stagnation. In the early months of the uprisings, I was overtaken by a deep feeling of the certainty of death looming near me, around me. This film shares narratives from Syria. Some are personal stories; others are social commentaries; some arise from the pres-ent; others look at the past; all seek to explain

the reasons for the outbreak of this revolution and how one’s soul can transform from seeking death to finding new desire for life.

Hazem Alhamwi is a director and producer born in Syria and currently living in Berlin. Alhamwi has directed and produced several films includ-ing the documentaries Childhood of the Place Part 1, Stone Bird, and Alshaarani, as well as more experimental productions: The Right Side of that Road, Damascus, Blue Coma, and Cold Breath. His documentary Childhood of the Place Part 1 won a grant from AFAC.

directed by hazem alhamwifrom my syrian room, 2014color, 70’

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screening 2: the little Eagles Directed by mohamed rashad, 2016wednesday 11 october, 19:00 to 20:30in arabic with english subtitles color and black and white, 77’

Between two generations in Cairo, the left-wing activists of the sixties and seventies, and chil-dren of the nineties, many things remain to be said. The film revolves around a confrontation between the dreams, aspirations, political action, failure, frustration, alienation, and finally the revolution on both sides.

Mohamed Rashad is cofounder of Hassala Films. He was born in Egypt and studied cinema at a workshop organized by the Jesuit Cultural Center and the SIMAT Foundation. Rashad has worked as an assistant director on many independent films and has written and directed two short films: From Afar and Maxim. In 2016, he directed his first feature documentary Little Eagles and, for the first time, he worked as a producer on the feature documentary The Craft directed by Ramez Youssef. He is currently working on the develop-ment of his first fiction feature Wheelchair.

screening 3: the mulberry house Directed by sara habib ishaq, 2013wednesday 8 november, 19:00 to 20:30in english and arabic with english subtitles color, 64’

The film follows the filmmaker’s personal docu-mentation of a casual reunion between estranged family members which escalate into an all-en-gulfing popular uprising. The film also focuses on the shifting dynamics between women and men within the context of a modern Yemeni family, testing all preconceived ideas about identity, social customs, familial and social bonds at a time when women’s roles and input have become integral to the Yemeni revolution.

Sara Ishaq is a filmmaker, director, and producer based between Egypt and Yemen. In 2013, she completed her first feature film The Mulberry House, which deals with her relationship with her Yemeni family against the backdrop of the country’s 2011 revolution. Currently, she works on a number of Yemeni productions through her own company Setara Films about the current

war in Yemen. Ishaq is also the co-founder of the Yemeni media collective #SupportYemen and Comra, Yemen’s first documentary film camp.

directed by mohamed rashadThe little eagles, 2016color and black and white, 77’

directed by sara habib ishaqThe mulberry house, 2013color, 64’

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screening 4: amal’s garden (2012) and and on a different note (2015)wednesday 6 December, 19:00 to 20:00

amal’s gardenDirected by nadia shihab19:00 to 19:30in Turkmen and arabic with english subtitles color, hD, 32’

Amal and Mustafa have lived a long life to-gether in northern Iraq. When Amal decides to finally renovate her home after a decade of war, 85-year-old Mustafa retreats to the melodic wilderness of the garden. A lyrical and intimate documentary on companionship, memory, and new beginnings, Amal’s Garden is the moving portrait of one couple moving forward in a new Iraq, where, as one world is disappearing, an-other is being born.

Nadia Shihab is a film director and artist based in Oakland, working primarily in nonfiction film and music. Shihab’s music compositions have been commissioned for films aired on US public television, and her recent film Amal’s Garden was shown in festivals and galleries internation-ally, including at Cinema du Reel at the Centre Pompidou, the Walker Art Center, and the Arab American National Museum. She has been an artist-in-residency with the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, and SF FilmHouse, was a Fulbright Scholar to Turkey, and is currently a Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow.

and on a different noteDirected by mohamed hassan shawky19:30 to 20:00in arabic with english subtitles color, 24’

And on a Different Note is a reflection on the ambivalent relationship of an Egyptian living in New York City with the ongoing political developments in Egypt and the media rhetoric associated with them. This audiovisual expe-rience is created through the juxtaposition of images of the author’s various habitats within the city, and sound fragments from Egyptian prime time talk shows, echoing a growing sense of alienation and a state of physical detachment, and capturing the stillness of New York’s urban life compared to the pace of events and their surrounding debates in Egypt.

Mohammad Shawky Hassan is a filmmaker and scholar. He studied philosophy, film direction, and cinema studies at The American University in Cairo, the Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences, and Columbia University. His films include It Was Related to Me (2011) and On a Day Like Today (2012). He has presented films at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, The New York Public Library and UnionDocs, and is currently running the Network of Arab Arthouse Screens (NAAS).

directed by mohamed hassan shawkyand on a Different note, 2015color, 24’

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Family programTo learn about additional family programs, please check our website.

Paper Play: a Storytelling Performance and Workshopwith junk munkez saturday 9 september, 10:00 to 13:00museum esplanadein english, french, and arabicages 6-12. children must be accompanied. lBp 10,000 per child. lBp 5,000 per additional child. spaces limited, booking required. Tickets can be booked through our website.

Join us for a street theatre performance fol-lowed by a hands-on workshop. Inspired by the 12th-century Japanese storytelling tech-nique kamashibai, children will experience a live outdoor visual performance which recounts the stories of Geha as well as Abla and Antar. Following the performance, the creative duo Junk Munkez will lead a workshop where kids will make their own mobile paper theatre using upcycled materials. Participants will be able to take their project home.This workshop is pro-grammed in conjunction with the exhibition Les Mondes de Willy Aractingi.

Lea Kirdikian is a product designer with an avid interest in recycled materials. Xavier Baghdadi is an imaginative animator/illustrator. They teamed up to collaborate on an upcycling ini-tiative called Junk Munkez, joining forces to conquer the local trash heaps through colorful eco-friendly products with eco-conscious ethics.

Collection Tour for Familiessunday 8 october, 11:00 to 12:00 sunday 5 november, 11:00 to 12:00sunday 3 December, 11:00 to 12:00meeting point: information Desk, gfin english and arabicages 4-11 with adult supervisionfree admissionspaces limited. first-come, first-served.

Led by one of the Sursock Museum’s docents, this fun and interactive family tour explores the new collection display, Eight Stories from the Sursock Museum Collection, through stories, shapes, and colors, with fun and educational activities for children and parents.

courtesy of Junk munkez

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parallEl public programact II of Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj Curated by Christine Tohme, Sharjah Biennial 13 (SB13), Tamawuj has been unfolding through exhibitions, performance programs, off-site projects, an educational program and an online pub-lishing platform, from October 2016 to October 2017.

This parallel public program at the Sursock Museum is part of Act II, the final iteration of SB13, taking place across Beirut. Act II takes place from 16 to 22 October 2017 in parallel to the SB13 Beirut off-site project Upon a Shifting Plate, conceived around the keyword “culinary” by The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan.

Fruit of Sleep: Curator’s TourWith reem Faddamonday 16 october, 17:00 to 18:00 in english saturday 21 october, 16:00 to 17:00 in arabicmeeting point: special exhibitions hall, level -2free admission spaces limited. first-come, first-served.

Curator Reem Fadda leads a walkthrough of the exhibition Fruit of Sleep.

Reem Fadda lives and works between Amman and Ramallah. She is the curator of Fruit of Sleep, part of Act II of the Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj.

Khalil El ghrib in conversation with reem FaddaThursday 19 october, 20:00 to 21:00 auditorium, level -2 in arabicfree admission

Khalil El Ghrib works with everyday and organic ephemera such as clay, bread, and newspaper to explore the degradation and decay of matter. In conversation with Reem Fadda, El Ghrib will touch both on his prolific practice as well as the selected works featured in the exhibition.

This talk is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Fruit of Sleep.

Khalil El Ghrib lives and works in Asilah, Morocco

Reem Fadda lives and works between Amman and Ramallah. She is the curator of Fruit of Sleep, part of Act II of the Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj.

Khalil El ghribpain, 2012Bread, mud, and mold, 20 × 14 cmcourtesy of the artist

sandi hilal and alessandro pettimujawara / The Tree school, 2014-ongoingTree, iron, earth, chairs, and books, 2 × 4 metersInstallation view at the 31st São Paulo Biennale (2014)courtesy of Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, and Grupo contrafilé

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55, radouan mrizigamonday 16 october, 20:30 to 21:30 Tuesday 17 october, 17:00 to 18:00 museum esplanade free admission

In this performance, choreographer and dancer Radouan Mriziga uses his own body as a mea-sure for drawing an architectural form, render-ing his movements and anatomy into artisanal tools. The work questions the nature of the information a performer can exchange with a viewer, in order to communicate, or confuse the understanding of an expression.

Radouan Mriziga (b. 1985, Morocco) studied dance in Marrakesh, Tunis. In 2012, he graduated from P.A.R.T.S, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Brussels-based dance school. He has collabo-rated on different productions such as Half Elf Zomeravond by Bart Meuleman at Toneelhuis. He is also one of the performers in Re:Zeituing, a project of the P.A.R.T.S Foundation and De Munt. Mriziga’s own work includes a group piece 3600 (2016) and a solo work 7 (2017).

DaSH, Ho rui ansaturday 21 october, 17:00 to 18:00sunday 22 october, 16:00 to 17:00auditorium, level -2in english with arabic subtitlesfree admission

Using footage of an accident captured from a dashcam, DASH considers how the crash—or crisis—becomes legible within a risk-managed and financially hedged era. From this limit-space where one can never truly know what might come next, a fantastic speculative economy—populated by the likes of ‘black swans’ and

‘dragon kings’—is produced in order to affirm some narratives while extinguishing others.

Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. He has presented projects at the 2nd Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Haus de Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), NUS Museum (Singapore), Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center (Manila), Serpentine Galleries (London), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Para Site (Hong Kong). He is also the Singapore desk

editor for ArtAsiaPacific and has contributed to numerous publications. He lives and works in Singapore.

radouan mriziga55, 2014kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, 2015Photo: Benjamin Boar. courtesy of the artist.

ho rui anDash, 2016courtesy of the artist

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calEndarSaTUrDaY 9 SEPTEmBEr10:00 – 13:00 FAmILY prOGrAmpaper play: a storytelling performance and WorkshopWith Junk munkez

WEDNESDaY 13 SEPTEmBEr19:00 – 20:30 FILm prOGrAmaFac Film nights: From my syrian room

SaTUrDaY 16 SEPTEmBEr16:00 – 17:00 tOUrcollection tour17:00 – 18:00 tOUrtour: partitions et couleurs : hommage à amine El bacha

SUNDaY 17 SEPTEmBEr11:00 – 12:00 FAmILY prOGrAmcollection tour for Families

THUrSDaY 28 SEPTEmBEr19:00 – 20:30 tALK swiss art talks: tobias Winkelmannswiss architecture in lebanon: herzog & de meuron’s Beirut Terraces

THUrSDaY 5 oCToBEr18:00 – 19:00 tOUrcollection tour19:00 – 20:00 tOUrtour: partitions et couleurs : hommage à amine El bacha

SUNDaY 8 oCToBEr11:00 – 12:00 FAmILY prOGrAmcollection tour for Families

WEDNESDaY 11 oCToBEr19:00 – 20:30 FILm prOGrAmaFac Film nights: the little Eagles

THUrSDaY 12 oCToBEr19:00 – 20:30 tALK swiss art talks: mirjam Varadinis(per)forming resistance

moNDaY 16 oCToBEr17:00 – 18:00 tOUr Fruit of sleep: curator’s tourWith reem FaddaAct II of Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj20:30 – 21:30 perFOrmANce 55, radouan mrizigaAct II of Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj

TUESDaY 17 oCToBEr17:00 – 18:00 perFOrmANce 55, radouan mrizigaAct II of Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj

THUrSDaY 19 oCToBEr20:00 – 21:00 tALKKhalil El ghrib in conversation with reem FaddaAct II of Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj

SaTUrDaY 21 oCToBEr16:00 – 17:00 tOUr Fruit of sleep: curator’s tourWith reem FaddaAct II of Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj17:00 – 18:00 perFOrmANce dash, ho rui anAct II of Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj

SUNDaY 22 oCToBEr16:00 – 17:00 perFOrmANce dash, ho rui anAct II of Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj

FrIDaY 27 oCToBEr10:00 – 17:00 cONFereNcecontextualizing the art salon in the arab region(At the orient-Institut)

SaTUrDaY 28 oCToBEr10:00 – 17:00 cONFereNcecontextualizing the art salon in the arab region(At the Sursock museum)

THUrSDaY 2 NoVEmBEr19:00 – 20:00 tALK artist talk: monira al Qadiri

SUNDaY 5 NoVEmBEr11:00 – 12:00 FAmILY prOGrAmcollection tour for Families

WEDNESDaY 8 NoVEmBEr19:00 – 20:30 FILm prOGrAmaFac Film nights: the mulberry house

THUrSDaY 16 NoVEmBEr18:00 – 19:00 tOUrcollection tour19:00 – 20:00 tOUrtour: partitions et couleurs: hommage à amine El bacha

SUNDaY 3 DECEmBEr11:00 – 12:00 FAmILY prOGrAmcollection tour for Families

WEDNESDaY 6 DECEmBEr19:00 – 20:00 FILm prOGrAmaFac Film nights: amal’s garden (2012) and and on a different note (2015)

ExhibitionsFruit of Sleepcurated by reem Faddapart of act ii program of Tamawuj, sharjah Biennial 1314 october – 31 December 2017Special exhibitions Hall, Level -2

monira al Qadiri the craftco-commissioned by the sursock museum and gasworks3 November 2017 – 5 February 2018Twin Galleries, GF

Click, Click: The repetition of Photographic Subject matter in the 19th Centurya selection of images from The fouad Debbas collection3 November 2017 – 5 February 2018The Fouad Debbas collection Gallery, Level 1

Eight Stories from the Sursock museum CollectionStarting 15 September 2017collection Galleries, Level 2

Partitions et Couleurs : Hommage à amine El Bacha 15 September 2017 – 12 march 2018collection Galleries, Level 1

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LibraryThe Sursock museum library is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and studying local and regional art historical resources. The library holds numerous publications, periodicals, and original archives documenting modern and contemporary art practices in the region and beyond, making it a valuable reference for students, scholars, artists, and curators.In addition, the library hosts temporary displays and public programs, and runs an outreach program.The library also aims at preserving the original archives of galleries, cultural institutions, and artists in Lebanon. These archives will be publicly accessible for consultation and research, and looked after by a team of committed professionals.Open daily from 13:00 to 18:00 Late opening on Thursdays from 13:00 to 21:00 Closed on Tuesdays and Sundays+961 (0)1 202 001 ext. 224

restoHeaded by Joanna Debbas, the resto offers an eclectic range of mediterranean dishes made with the freshest seasonal ingredients. Its diverse menu draws on culinary influences from Lebanon, Italy, and Iran, and features traditional mezze with a twist, cherry tomato tart, grilled falafel, and beef fillet with pomegranate sauce.The resto is committed to supporting local farmers and markets. All dishes are prepared using local produce sourced directly from the growers.Open daily from 10:00 to 01:00 Closed on Tuesdays+961 (0)1 200 512

StoreThe Sursock museum Store is the perfect destination for those seeking a distinctive and comprehensive selection of contemporary art books and gifts. From critical texts to custom-made designer items, the store stocks stimulating volumes about art and artistic practices, in addition to a wide range of souvenirs relating to the museum’s collection and exhibitions.True to the museum’s mission, the store also produces fun and engaging books, games, and educational tools for all ages.Open daily from 10:30 to 18:30 Late opening on Thursdays from 12:00 to 21:00 Closed on Tuesdays+961 (0)1 202 001 ext. 219

Directionsgreek orthodox archbishopric street, ashrafieh, Beirut, lebanonWe are located forty meters to the left of the top of the Saint Nicolas stairs, just a few steps away from Gemmayzeh Street (rue Gouraud).

admission and opening timesOpen daily from 10:00 to 18:00 Late opening on Thursdays from 12:00 to 21:00 Closed on TuesdaysAdmission to the Sursock museum is free of charge.

museum guidelinesAll galleries and facilities are wheelchair accessible.Please do not run, talk loudly, or otherwise disturb others in the galleries.Please do not touch the works of art on display.Bags and backpacks larger than 45 × 36 × 20 cm should be checked in at the coat-check facilities.You may take non-flash, still photographs in the galleries for personal use only.Food and beverages are permitted in the museum’s esplanade and restaurant, but they may not be carried into the museum.Animals are not permitted within the museum grounds.Please do not smoke in the building.Wheeled devices, including rollerblades, skateboards, bikes and scooters are not allowed within the museum grounds.Please do not throw or toss a ball or any other object on the museum esplanade.

Contact us+ 961 (0)1 202 001 – info@sursock.museumTo stay informed of our upcoming exhibitions and public programs, sign up to our newsletter on www.sursock.museum.Want to learn more about contemporary art and engage with the visitors and activities of the Sursock Museum? You can join the Sursock Museum team of docents by sending an email to info@sursock.museum

@sursockmuseum – #sursockmuseum

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