The Impossible Works of Raed Yassin at Beirut Art Center

The Beirut Art Center is hosting a spoken word performance titled “The Impossible Works of Raed Yassin”. Five curators take part in a performance that employs strategies of forgery, fabulation, and factuality to realize through the medium of speech works that are “impossible” to execute. Each of the curators occupies a separate room in the space and describes, theorizes, and narrates the conception, features, and context of an invisible artwork. By omitting different details and altering the description with every iteration, the curators offer limitless permutations of projects that are materially absent.

Yassin’s proposal seeks to activate a collaborative speculation about the future of curatorial practices and the potentialities of conversation between artist and curator. By collapsing some of the formal, political, and epistemological tropes of curating and artistic production into an oral modality, the curator as a meta-artist and the artist as a meta-curator engage. The audience becomes actor in a game of imagination, persuasion, and deception.

The participating curators are Amanda Abi Khalil, Kyla McDonald, Nat Muller, Rasha Salti, and Eline van der Vlist.

Free entrance