[spectre] Place In Place Of: Alexandria & Upcoming Lectures by Jeremy Beaudry 18, 22, 24 January (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum]

ALEXANDRIA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM (ACAF)
 
Place In Place Of: Alexandria & Upcoming Lectures by Jeremy Beaudry 18, 
22, 24 January
 
Place In Place Of: Alexandria
‘Place In Place Of: Alexandria’ is a work in progress by Jeremy 
Beaudry that manifests itself as a set of site-specific 
interventions, performances, and documents based in Alexandria, Egypt. 
Equally important and essential, this project will be co-created as a 
collaboration with local art and architecture university students 
and recent graduates. The research and documentation will be 
collected, reconstituted, and recontextualized on the Web at 
alexandria.placeinplaceof.net
 
‘Place In Place Of: Alexandria’ is the first project in the series of 
events, workshops, exhibitions, and lectures collectively titled 
CLEOTRONICA: Festival for Media, Art, and Socio-Culture organized by 
Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), more information will be 
available on CLEOTRONICA in February.
 
Lectures by Jeremy Beaudry
As part of ‘Place In Place Of: Alexandria’ Jeremy Beaudry will be 
delivering 3 interconnected lectures on 18, 22, 24 of January the 
details of which are as follows:
 
18 January (Friday): Starts at 7pm
Artist-Run Culture and Initiatives Today in the North-East US, live 
Arabic translation, Location: ACAF
 
22 January (Tuesday): Starts at 7pm
Artist talk by Jeremy Beaudry about his work and artistic/research 
processes, live Arabic translation, Location: ACAF
 
24 January (Thursday): 6-8 pm
Lecture and rounding up presentation about the ‘Place In Place Of: 
Alexandria’ project, live Arabic Translation, Location: American Center 
Alexandria, 3 Pharaana Street, Azarita, Alexandria.
 
Jeremy Beaudry is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, educator and 
activist from Philadelphia,  USA. With a background in both art and 
architectural practice, Beaudry works across these disciplines to 
understand and engage the role of personal and collective memory in 
shaping our experience of physical and virtual spaces. Through online 
projects, site-based curatorial and creative work, and activism around 
issues of land use and urban development, he engages a variety of 
audiences from diverse fields in and out of the academy. He is 
currently the Director of the Department for the Investigation of 
Meaning in the Think Tank that has yet to be named, an artists group 
that initiates site-specific conversations, performative actions, and 
educational projects to interrogate contemporary urban issues. Beaudry 
is also an Assistant Professor in Multimedia at the University of the 
Arts in Philadelphia.
 
This project was made possible by the Bureau of Educational and 
Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State and the American Center 
Alexandria
 
Related Links:
http://meaning.boxwith.com
http://thinktank.boxwith.com
http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net
 
Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)
10 Hussein Hassab Street, Flat 6, Azarita, Alexandria, Egypt. E: 
office at acafspace.org T: +20 (0)3 4804145, Opening Times: 3-9 pm 
Tuesday-Sunday
www.acafspace.org