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September 24, 2010
Issue Launch, Library Closing, Ice cream, and You!
September 23, 2010
Call For Interns!
Bidoun is looking for a few good interns for our New York City office. Interns will be charged with tasks that will include but are not limited to: compiling information as to exhibitions around the world that fall into the Bidounisphere, tracking the literary world from Tangier to Tehran, collecting and organizing press archives, helping with magazine distribution, as well as projects at large.
Bidoun is specifically looking for one intern who will assist the Senior Editor on fundraising and other matters. This intern could also work with the Senior Editor on a variety of other projects.
Please submit a cover letter and CV to info@bidoun.com with subject header BIDOUN/INTERN.
September 14, 2010
Rayya Badran Selected for Bidoun/Delfina New Writing Residency
Delfina Foundation and Bidoun are pleased to announce that Rayya Badran has been selected for the Bidoun/Delfina New Writing Residency, supported by the British Council.
Rayya Badran (b. 1984) is a writer based in Beirut who focuses on the performative nature of the voice as well as on characteristics of aurality and music in film and video. In recent years, her research has explored melancholy in music. Her first publication entitled Radiophonic Voice(s) was produced in the framework of Ashkal Alwan’s Homeworks 5: A forum on cultural practices in April-May 2010, Beirut. The publication engaged two radiophonic events recorded and filmed in 2006 during the Israeli war on Lebanon. Rayya will be in residence in Winter of 2011 during which time she will research how popular culture, specifically Western music, is received, lived and later theorized among different generations in the context of Beirut.
September 13, 2010
Bidoun Library at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
From October 12th to November 24th, the Bidoun Library and Project Space will be hosted by the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. Contemporaneous with the library will be a symposium devoted to archival practices, “Speak, Memory,” which brings together photographer Susan Meiselas, members of the collective Pad.ma, Claire Hsu of the Asia Art Archive, Negar Azimi and Yasmine Eid Sabbagh of the Arab Image Foundation, Vasif Kortun of Platform Garanti in Istanbul, and many others. As part of Bidoun’s program, the Bidoun Library will host talks by historian Khaled Fahmy and curator Bassem El-Baroni, co-founder of the Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum and co-curator of Manifesta 8. The Bidoun program is curated by Contributing Editor Hassan Khan.
Bidoun Video at Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA)
The Bidoun Video Project 2010 landed in Thessaloniki, Greece on September 11 through October 12, 2010. The programs were curated by Bidoun and guest curators Masoud Amralla Al Ali, Aram Moshayedi, and the duo of Özge Ersoy and Sohrab Mohebbi.
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