Seminars & Lectures

Delegated Voices: A Talk by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz

Wednesday, Jun 15, 2016
8:00pm -> 9:30pm
Beirut Art Center

Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz and Marwa Arsanios will discuss together with Marie Muracciole plagiarisms, interpretation and ventriloquism among other situations that transgress the current convention of discourse.

Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have been working together in Berlin since 2007. Their staged films and film installations often start with a song, a picture, a film or a script from the past. They produce performances for the camera, staging the actions of individuals and groups living — indeed thriving — in defiance of normality, law and economics. Their films upset normative historical narratives, as figures across time are staged, projected and layered. Their performers are choreographers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about performance, the meaning of visibility since early modernity, the pathologization of bodies, but also about glamour and resistance.

Marwa Arsanios lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon. She obtained her MFA from University of the Arts, London (2007) and was a researcher in the Fine Art department at the Jan Van Eyck Academie (2011-2012). She has exhibited in London, Beirut, Athens, Oxford, Lisboa, Santiago de Chile, Rome, Damascus and recently at NGBK in Berlin and MuKHA in Antwerp. Her work was shown at Art Dubai in the Bidoun Lounge (Art Park 2009), at the Forum expanded of the Berlinale (2010), at the Homeworks V and VI forum in Beirut, Tokyo Wonder Site in Tokyo (2011), the 12th Istanbul Biennale (2011), the Cornerhouse in Manchester (2012) and most recently at the Venice biennial (Future Generation Art Prize). Her videos were screened in several festivals and events such as the Rio de Janeiro film festival in 2010, the e-flux storefront in New York, and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She has been nominated for the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize 2012 and won the special prize, She was also nominated for the Sovereign Art Prize 2012. She is a founding member of the artist organization and project space 98weeks research project.

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