Exit Art: Salloum video screenings (iii)

[JSalloum at aol.com]

(as if) beauty never ends.." and other works from the ongoing video project, 
'untitled'

Jayce Salloum videotape screenings at Exit Art
Saturday May 8 - 6:30 & 7:30 pm
475 Tenth Ave.
New York
(212) 966-7745
info at exitart.org


6:30 pm: untitled part 2: beauty and the east
7:30 pm: introduction to the 'untitled' project by Jayce Salloum.
7:50 pm: untitled part 3b (as if) beauty never ends, and untitled part 1: 
everything and nothing

Jayce Salloum will present his "untitled" project, an ongoing videotape 
addressing social and political realities, representations, enunciations, and the 
conditions of living between polarities of culture, geography, history, and 
ideology. In part 1: everything and nothing (1999-2001, 40 mins.), Salloum, 
off-camera, talks with Soha Bechara, the ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter 
who was detained for 10 years in the notorious El-Khiam torture and 
interrogation center in South Lebanon. In a riveting and intimate conversation, Salloum 
inquires about home, being interviewed to death, resistance, survival, and the 
distance between Paris, where Bechara now lives, and Khiam. In part 2: beauty 
and the east (1999-2002, 50 mins.), Salloum turns obliquely to the former 
Yugoslavia after the NATO bombing. In a kaleidoscope of interviews, refugees, 
migrants, asylum seekers, and cultural producers address topics ranging from 
identity and fascism to nationalism and monsters. In both anecdotal and theoretical 
recountings, they lay out the issues currently at stake in this region of 
displacement and redefinition; their words are located within images of cities and 
landscapes. Also shown will be part 3: (as if) beauty never ends.. (2003, 11 
mins.), in which ambient footage including a montage of orchids blooming and 
material from the site of the 1982 massacres at Lebanon's Sabra and Shatilla 
refugee camps are juxtaposed with the voice Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a 1948 
refugee living in Bourg El Barajneh) recounting a story told by the rubble of 
his home in Palestine. The tape permeates into an essay on dystopia in 
contemporary times, and provides an elegiac response to the Palestinian 
dispossession.



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Since 1975 Salloum has been working in installation, photography, mixed media 
and video, as well as curating exhibitions, conducting workshops and 
coordinating cultural projects. He has lectured internationally and exhibited 
extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, East Asia and the Middle East, at 
institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; American Fine Arts; 
Artists Space; National Gallery of Canada; Canadian Museum of Contemporary 
Photography; Canadian Museum of Civilization; New Langton Arts; Los Angeles Center for 
Photographic Studies; Long Beach Museum of Art; Walker Arts Center; The Wexner 
Center; YYZ Artists Outlet; A Space; Contemporary Art Gallery & Western 
Front, Vancouver; Optica Gallery; Dazibzo; Mois De La Photo à Montréal; Miyagi 
Museum of Contemporary Art; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art; Kunstlerhaus 
Bethanien; Werkleitz Bienniel; Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume; American Centre, 
Paris; Cinematheque Française; Institute du Monde Arabe; Espace Lyonnais d'Art 
Contemporain; Shedhalle; Rote Fabrik; Rotterdam International Film Festival; 
Singapore International Film Festival; British Film Institute; Museo Nacional 
Centro De Arte Reina Sofia; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville; CaixaForum, 
Barcelona; and Théatre de Beyrouth. In 2003 he represented Canada at the 8th 
Havana Biennial.




for more information on Salloum’s work:
www.111101.net/Artworks/JayceSalloum/
www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?SALLOUMJ
www.civilisations.ca/cultur/cespays/images/pay2_20p5.jpg
www.lot.at/politics/contributions/s_jayce1.htm
www.wwvf.nl/2001/0newarabvideo.htm



video distribution:
Video Data Bank, Chicago, ph:(312) 345-3550, fx:(312) 541-8073, info at vdb.org, 
www.vdb.org
V Tape, Toronto, Canada, ph:(416) 351-1317, distribution at vtape.org, 
www.vtape.org
Video Out, Vancouver, ph:(604)872-8337, videoout at telus.net, www.videoout.ca
Heure Exquise!, France, ph:(33)20-04-95-74, exquise at nordnet.fr, 
www.exquise.org
Argos, Brussels, Belgium, ph:(32) 2 229-0003, fx: 223-7331, 
info at argosarts.org, www.argosarts.org
Lux, London, England, ph: (44 207) 503 3980, info at lux.org.uk, www.lux.org.uk

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