[spectre] Wtrlt: VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL DAMASCUS

[Oliver Grau]

VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL DAMASCUS
Opening  
Sunday 17 October, 7pm / Zeitouneh area, Bab Sharqi, Medhat Pasha,
Damascus, Syria

AIN (Association IN) presents a visual arts project comprising video
art, photography, installations, a lecture and a workshop. 
The first edition explores different aspects of contemporary life in
the city by presenting events in several locations in Damascus. It is an
invitation to reflect on the collective memory of the city and the
relations between art(ists) and the city.

Curators: Charlotte Bank, Delphine Leccas, Omar Berkadar.


Program

*Close Encounters* curated by Charlotte Bank
*Video installations by Bass Breche (Lebanon), Gheith Al-Amine
(Lebanon), Mohanad Yacoubi (Palestine), Christophe Katrib (Lebanon),
Ghassan Halwani (Lebanon), Marwa Arsanios (Lebanon), Siska
(Lebanon/Germany), Salah Saouli (Lebanon/Germany) 
17 October, 7pm / 17- 31 October from 4 to 9pm / Zeitouneh area, old
city
*Experimental music and video performance by Raed Yassin (Lebanon) 
17 October, 8:30 pm / Finnish Institute, Zeitouneh area, old city
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*Installation by Omar Berakdar (Syria)/ Photographs from studio
photographers' archives 
*Photo-media installation by Fassih Keiso (Syria)
*Video exhibition by Annelies Strba (Switzerland)
*Media art installation with students of the Faculty of Fine Arts in
Damascus proposed by TheGreenEyl (Germany)
17 October, 7pm / 17-31 October from 4 to 9pm / Zeitouneh area, old
city  
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* *Contemporary Art in the Digital Age*/lecture by Oliver Grau
(Germany)
Tuesday 19 October, 12pm / Faculty of Fine Arts, Baramkeh
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*Video selected from European Media Art Festivals (Osnabrueck,
Germany)
18 and 19 October, 7pm / Goethe-Institut Damascus, Malki
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*Installation by Patricia Lambertus (Germany) 
17 October, 6pm / 17 -31 October /  Goethe-Institut Damascus, Malki
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*Photography exhibition by Laila Muraywid (Syria/France)
10 November, 7:30pm / 10 November-2 December / French Cultural Centre,
Bahsa
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For further press information please contact:
Associationin at gmail.com 


 
The festival is presented under the patronage of the Ministry of
Culture