BAK Critical Readers in Artistic Practice

Author(s)
By Maria Hlavajova, Jill Winder, Cosmin Costinas, Maaike Bleeker, Keti Chukhrov, Fadi El Abdallah, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Natasa Ilic, Bilal Khbeiz, Anders Kreuger, Hila Peleg, Stella Bruzzi, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Akr

The inaugural publication in the BAK Critical Readers in Artists’ Practice Series, Rabih Mroué: A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice examines the work of Mroué (born 1967), an actor, director, playwright, and artist based in Beirut, whose complex and diverse practice spans disciplines and formats such as music, performance, theater, and visual art. As one of the key artistic voices in Lebanon and beyond, Mroué’s work explores how varied modes of art can open up a space of possibility in connection to civic and political imagination.

With contributions by: Maaike Bleeker (art historian, Utrecht and Amsterdam); Keti Chukhrov(theorist, Moscow); Fadi El Abdallah (poet and jurist, The Hague); Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (filmmakers, Beirut); Natasa Ilic (curator, Berlin); Bilal Khbeiz (artist and poet, Los Angeles); Anders Kreuger (curator and writer, Antwerp); Hila Peleg (curator and filmmaker, Berlin) & Stella Bruzzi (media theoretician, Warwick); Walid Raad (artist, New York); Jalal Toufic (artist and writer, Berlin); Kaelen Wilson-Goldie (art critic, Beirut); and Akram Zaatari (artist, Beirut).

Table of contents

A Conversation with Rabih Mroué

Cosmin Costinas, Maria Hlavajova, and Jill Winder

I Want to See

Anders Kreuger

Towards ‘Approximation

Hila Peleg and Stella Bruzzi

Starting All Over Again

Bilal Khbeiz

I Am Salah el Dine

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige

Sous la direction

Walid Raad

Rabih Mroué: We Live in That Which We Can Steal from Time

Fadi El Abdallah

The Full Story of a Missing Employee

Akram Zaatari

I Am the Martyr Sanâ’ Yûsif Muhaydlî

Jalal Toufic

‘To Deserve’ the Event: On Rabih Mroué’s Poetics of Performing

Keti Chukhrov

The Body on Stage and Screen

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Performing the Image: Rabih Mroué’s Lecture-Performances

Maaike Bleeker

The Past Is Never Dead. It’s Not Even Past.

Natasa Ilic

Colophon

Editors: Maria Hlavajova and Jill Winder

Associate Editor: Cosmin Costinas

Design: Kummer & Herrman, Utrecht

Published by: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and post editions, Rotterdam

Language: English

Pages: 260

ISBN: 978-90-77288-00-9

Price: € 24

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