Counting Thoughts
Preview: Wednesday April 21st, 2010. The show continues until Saturday May 29th, 2010.

Counting Thoughts is an interdisciplinary group show inviting female artists of different nationalities to present works that reflect their thoughts on their own womanhood in a free context. Keeping in mind that the association to culturally specific shows comes with the burden of stereotypes, Counting Thoughts aims at taking an approach that goes beyond direct gender attribution. It is an attempt to open up a dialogue on the implications that this categorization has on the artist, curator and viewer when confronted with such a loaded and indefinable subject. Different medium are used such as video, animation, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation.

Participating artists are:

Marcela Astorga
Nastia Bolchakova
Veronica Brovall
Sirine Fattouh
Alexandra Hopf
Rasha Kahil
Hiba Kalache
Emi Miyashita
Iz Oztat

Curated by Mayssa Fattouh

Hi everyone. In case you were wondering where I’ve been, I’m in Beirut! Taking some time off to spend with family here. Beirut is as vibrant and alive as ever. Here are some photos from Beirut by Philippe Laurent. More here.

I’ll be keeping you posted on the latest and greatest of the ArabNet 2010 Conference. Meanwhile, check out the website here and the blog here.

ArabNet 2010 is the first international conference for the Arab web industry, bringing together leaders from across the MENA, Europe and Silicon Valley to discuss cutting-edge trends and emerging opportunities.

Through pitch sessions, the conference will feature the region’s brightest ideas and most promising Internet start-ups, and connect them with the internet ecosystem: incubators, angel investors, venture capitalists, established Internet companies, NGOs and influential bloggers

Under the patronage of H.E. the President of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon, Mr. Saad Hariri, The International Business Alliance Group (IBAG) Presents ArabNet 2010 Trends and Opportunities in Arab Web Business

25-26, March 2010
Habtoor Grand Hotel, – Beirut, Lebanon

Vartan Avakian -
“Untitled Neon Signs for Burj Hammoud (2a) and (2b)”, 2009
Neon, 135 x 435 cm

Noise at Gallery Sfeir-Semler is Curated by Negar Azimi and Babak Radboy for Bidoun on view
11th December 2009 – 3rd April 2010

with Vartan Avakian, Steven Baldi, Walead Beshty, Haris Epaminonda, Media Farzin, Marwan, Yoshua Okon, Babak Radboy, Bassam Ramlawi, Mounira Al Solh, Andree Sfeir, Rayyane Tabet, Lawrence Weiner, Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck

I love, love, love this photography. Born in Lebanon in 1969 of Lebanese-Egyptian origin, Baladi has lived in Beirut, Paris, London and Cairo, where she currently works and resides.

Baladi is an artist working essentially with reproducible images in various media and formats. Her installations, videos and collages, which often stage culturally hybrid scenes, are dense with mythology and visual theory. She addresses memory, both collective and personal, in a codified and multi-cultural language articulated in a world of shifting boundaries. Symbolic appropriations contribute to the construction of her numerous visual landscapes.

From her series Surface of Time.

I love this simple drawing by Jana Traboulsi

Sally K’s Paintings are characterized as fun, flirty, and feminine. I love to see them when I’m out and about in Beirut.

Nadine Kanso was born in Lebanon in 1968. She spent her childhood there and later gained two degrees from the Lebanese American University . Nadine majored in Communication Arts and Advertising Design, degrees which laid the foundation for her subsequent forays into many diverse fields of artistic production. Her photo-based work develops the controversial theme of the Arab identity today.

Arab

Party @ The White

Hungry For Life

Lebanon, July 2006. 33 days of war. 1191 Lebanese killed. Remember & Don’t Forget. Tee’s in a limited edition series, numbered from 1 to 1191 on sale here.