tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10731531199472366982023-11-15T05:12:02.754-08:00PHOTOCAIRO 4: THE LONG SHORTCUTOlly Hamzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08068064858711123099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073153119947236698.post-75891199863656438372008-12-09T03:57:00.001-08:002008-12-09T03:57:40.712-08:00WEBSITE FOR PHOTOCAIRO4Please check<br />www.photocairo4.comOlly Hamzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08068064858711123099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073153119947236698.post-80407004453755146182008-10-12T08:09:00.000-07:002008-10-12T08:12:17.179-07:00The Long Shortcut<p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:130%;"><b>PhotoCairo4: The Long Shortcut</b></span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"><b>An international multi-disciplinary visual arts project in Downtown Cairo featuring a series of exhibitions, screenings, presentations, residencies, a workshop and a temporary publishing house.</b></span><br /></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"><b>17 December 2008 – 14 January 2009</b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">Opening reception on Wednesday 17 December 2008</span><br /></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"><b>SYMPOSIA</b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">19-21 December 2008</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">9-11 January 2009 </span><br /></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;"><b>PhotoCairo4: THE LONG SHORTCUT</b> is a large-scale visual arts project that explores the dynamics between informal and official modes of operation that continue to shape the social reality in this region and beyond. </span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;">The program revolves around a number of loose coordinates. One main site is Cairo itself as a quintessential example of an explosive mega city situated in a state characterized by a mode of perpetual crisis. Under these conditions one can think of informal structures and strategies of existence as creatively pragmatic answers that are by definition - rather than design - subversive. </span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;">On the one hand, we would like to examine transformations in images of officialdom and the rhetoric of power through media representations. However, we are also interested in poetic accounts of daily life, personal narratives and creative strategies employed by Individuals faced with the reality of navigating these mutating hybrid structures.</span><br /></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"><b>ARTISTS</b></span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">Ala’ Younis , Ahmed Kamel, Artur Żmijewski , Babak Afrassiabi, Bernard Guillot , David Thorne & Julia Meltzer, Doa Aly, Hala Elkoussy, Hassan Khan, Heidrun Holzfeind, Ihab Jadallah, Kareem Lotfy, Kobe Matthys, Larissa Sansour, Leopold Kessler, Maha Maamoun, Mahmoud Khaled, Mandy Gehrt, Mohamed Allam, Raed Yassin, Rana El Nemr and Pages Magazine</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">Spanning a diverse range of media and artistic approaches, the visual art exhibition features more than fourteen new PhotoCairo4 productions. All of the project have not yet been shown in Cairo, including key international works such as Hassan Khan’s 4-screen video installation entitled The Hidden Location as well as Artur Żmijewski’s single channel video “Them” which was shown in Documenta 12.</span></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"><b>WITH PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND FILM PROGRAMS BY</b></span></p> <span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;">Bassam El-Baroni</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">, Ganzeer, George Azmy, </span><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;">Florian Wüst, Karim Tartoussieh,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"> Martí Peran, Nat Muller, Pages Magazine, Urs Lehni </span><span style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;">and What, How & for Whom curators’s collective (Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Devic, Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović ) </span><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"><b>VENUES</b></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">Contemporary Image Collective</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">Townhouse Gallery</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">Rawabet Theater</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">Hungarian Cultural Institute</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;">Rented apartment</span><br /><br /></p> <p align="justify"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"><i>PhotoCairo4: The Long Shortcut is curated by Aleya Hamza and Edit Molnar</i></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%;"><b><i>PhotoCairo4: The Long Shortcut is supported by the Danish Center for Culture and Development (DCCD), Prohelvetia: The Swiss Arts Council, Alcatel, Goethe-Institute, Mondriaan Foundation, RWE dea with additional support by the Spanish Embassy in Egypt.</i></b></span></p>Olly Hamzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08068064858711123099noreply@blogger.com0