Registration for Image/Text/Paratext Workshop by Ali Cherri

This workshop is open to visual artists, designers, writers, photographers, video makers and students in the arts.

In the context of the exhibition “Afteratlas,” Beirut Art Center is inviting Ali Cherri to lead a three-day workshop on image-text compositions and the creation of new narratives.

The workshop will take as its starting point Bertolt Brecht’s “War Primer”, which was first published in 1955. This book is a collection of “photo-epigrams.”

The workshop will be divided in two parts. On the first day you will be looking at different text-image relations in artists’ projects, film excerpts, and videos. You will also discuss analytical readings, and investigate the potentials of the caption and language to counter the mystifying, and many times deceiving, power of the image. During the last two days, the participants will conceive and produce a series of compositions around current events of their choosing. Each composition will consist of a collage of photographs (from newspapers, magazines, etc.) and existing textual excerpts (from novels, poems, etc.). The aim of this exercise is to read photographs by integrating them into yet another narrative.

Biography:
Ali Cherri is a graduate in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut (2000) and holds a Master Degree in Performing Arts from DasArts, Amsterdam (2005). Cherri works with video, installation, performance, multimedia and print. His work was presented in various festivals and art spaces among which: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Delfina Foundation (London), Tate Modern (London), Home Works (Beirut), VideoBrazil (Sao Paolo), Berlinale (Berlin), TIFF (Toronto), Contemporary Image Collective (Cairo), Modern Art Oxford (Oxford), Manifesta (Amsterdam), KunstFilmBiennale (Köln), Kasa Galeri (Istanbul). His recent exhibitions include On Things That Move, solo show at Galerie Imane Farès (Paris, 2014), Yalay Art Space (Hong Kong, 2013), Southern Panorama (Sao Paolo, 2013), HomeWorks 6 (Beirut, 2013), “Dégagements”, Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris, 2012). Recently, he received Arab Short Best Director Award at Dubai International Film Festival 2013 and Res Artis Award at VideoBrasil 2013.

Date:
March 3, 4, and 5 from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.

Language: English (depending on the participants)
Maximum: 10 participants
Fee: $30