The last evening before our presentation.....we are so tired!!!

More typical scenes from Beirut

To build on Ayman's last post, there's a group on facebook called "WTF! only in Lebanon"
(http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25012800856)... check out their photos...
they have over 4000 of typical things or scenes you'd find in lebanon... some are lame like english spelling mistakes, but some really do tell you a lot about the country and how it works... check it out when you can.... maybe go to the very first few photos, because people are posting a lot of bullshit these days....


Leen

Some Pictures of Typical Scenes in Beirut

People put random things on the streets to reserve parking in Beirut because of the congestion

Using a bucket to get groceries from the store to the apartment on the first floor

Public expression of religious ideology at the separation line of Beirut 

People getting creative because of lack of parking spaces

Electricity problems, along with the neglected architecture in Beirut

hello everyone. WE MISS YOU :(


this is rewa's sister's blog.. i think its very important to read it and understand what goes on in beirut from an alternative and critical perspective.


enjoy!


http://beirutinbetween.blogspot.com/

Walid Raad and the Atlas Group

Walid Raad and the Atlas Group

I was talking about the Project -1001 und eine Frage- to my boss in the Art Book Store where I was working and he showed me 3 books of the work of Walid Raad and the Atlas Group, the "group" he has founded. There are others collage and photography works wich I find  really interesting and inspiring. Here - Let's Be Honest, the Weather Helped- .

(Marie)

"Walid Raad (Ra'ad) (born 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon) is a contemporary media artist. The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad.

His works to date include video, photography and literary essays. All, in one way or another, deal with the contemporary history of Lebanon with particular emphasis on the wars in Lebanon between 1975 to 1991. The work is also often concerned with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions; and the ways film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence.^[1] He is also a member of the Arab Image Foundation."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walid_Raad)

"With Let's Be Honest, the Weather Helped (1998/2006), Raad creates a brutal, radical juxtaposition of reportage and fine art. Five photographs of bombs and bombed surfaces are overlaid with pop-art like colored dots, resembling children's stickers, a playfulness contrasting and thus negating the violence, and adding them into notebooks along notes, drawings. The works take a skeptical approach to representation, contrasting the small impression-like dots with the geological trauma they are meant to depict. Raad subsequently found out that the munitions industry references bombs by colors not dissimilar to the ones used in the pieces."(http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2010-11-04/walid-raad-whitechapel/)

 WE ARE WORKING (REALLY WORKING):P

PRESENTATION POSTER

We just finished making and posting up the posters for our first presentation. Here they are:

german documentation about the massacre of Sabra and Shatila.
(mir ist noch ganz schlecht..)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa3jsIY_xKM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyZNnSHxMb0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19TRY6w-TJQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOLN0hd_yMY&feature=related

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Das verschwiegene Volk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAzGHanzOjg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6C6FT4tHC4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ipe9_pnB8&feature=related

The diploma work of a media design student from Ravensburg explains background-information about the conflict in the middle east.

http://www.partynation.tv/artikel/Video/24-knowledge---Der-Nahost-Konflikt-Video.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krbIsUG9wCg&feature=related

In Berlin subway, the discussion came up about how to "categorize" the external treats of people and what stereotypes exist, in order to "recognise" their social status and belonging to groups. Now I found a small video about this topic in Libanon that might be interesting for the german students...

Address List

Hello! here are the addresses I have so far in case you want to start sending packages... whoever needs to add or if I made a mistake you can comment on this post...


BEIRUT

Farah Fayyad

P.O. BOX 3519

American University of Beirut

Bliss Street, Hamra

Beirut, Lebanon

Romy Saber

Convivium II, 7^th floor

St. Antonios Street, Gemmayzeh

Beirut, Lebanon

Sara Sukhun

P.O. BOX 745

American University of Beirut

Bliss Street, Hamra

Beirut, Lebanon

Leen Charafeddine

P.O. BOX 5297

American University of Beirut

Bliss Street, Hamra

Beirut, Lebanon

Lynn Sharafeddine

P.O. BOX 1777

American University of Beirut

Bliss Street, Hamra

Beirut, Lebanon

Joelle Haddad

c/o Lynn Sharafeddine

P.O. BOX 1777

American University of Beirut

Bliss Street, Hamra

Beirut, Lebanon

Ayman Hassan

c/o Leen Charafeddine

P.O. BOX 5297

American University of Beirut

Bliss Street, Hamra

Beirut, Lebanon

BERLIN

Thekla Priebst

152 Greifswalder Straße

10409 Berlin, Germany

Christin Huber

151 Roelckestraße

13086 Berlin, Germany

Max Firchau

50 Emserstraße

12051 Berlin, Germany

Jenny Döhren

27 BoxHagener Straße

10245 Berlin, Germany

Bettina Böhm

65 Badstraße

13357 Berlin, Germany

for the germans...

...a documentary about the political murder of Rafik Hariri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEfCkQFjwGw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku89yIpkQKM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcD7vMfOgFk

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1. and 2. May 2011 Berlin

They came Saturday morning but I have the feeling that they have always been here. Since us -Berliner- , we met you Beirut people we didn´t stop, yesterday the first of may (the 2 first photos) and today at school ( the 2 others ph.) have been for me so intensive and interesting!

(Marie) and good night les ami!