Following the first workshop in critical writing, Beirut Art Center presents a second series of workshops lead by Ma’n Abutaleb. This workshop will address the possibilities and impossibilities of translating the listening experience into text and expressing sound with words.
This three-day workshop starting 7 June, will introduce participants to critical writing on sound art. Participants will engage with works currently on display at Beirut Art Center as part of the Esma’/Listen exhibition, and will get a chance to develop critical texts on the works of their choice.
Day 1 – Language, sound, metaphor
On the first day, the participants will explore the relationship between language and sound, and how metaphor can help us communicate sensory experience.
Day 2 – Approaches to critique
The participants will discuss three approaches in which a critic can engage a work of art. This session will focus on the work by Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s The All Hearing (2013), which is currently on display at Beirut Art Center, as a case study. Meanwhile, participants will be invited to choose a work from Esma’/Listen the current exhibition on view to write about according to their preferred critical approach. During the session, participants are required to make their choice and inform the instruction. In the following session, they will be given time to develop their critical piece.
Day 3 – Writing about art
On this last day of the workshop, the participants will present their texts and develop them with the workshop moderator. Emphasis will be given to the challenges and opportunities of writing on art in Arabic and the possible approached to deal with them.
Biography:
Ma’n Abu Taleb is the Editor and Co-founder of Ma3azef.com. His first Novel Kol El Maarek was published earlier this year. He has a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory.
Language: Arabic
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