Biography Walid Raad (Chbanieh, Lebanon, 1967)
Walid Raad is a media artist and an Assistant Professor of Art at Cooper Union (New York, USA). His work includes textual analysis, videos, performances and photography projects. His video works include: Hostage: The Bachar Tapes, 2000; The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs, 1996-1999, and Up to the South, 1993. His photography projects and performances include: The Atlas Group: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, 2001, and The Loudest Muttering is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, 2001. His critical essays have been published in Public Culture, Rethinking Marxism and Third Text, and his media works have been shown at numerous festivals in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Walid Raad is a founding member of the Arab Image Foundation.
Contemporary Arab Representations is a long-term project which includes seminars, publications, performances and presentations of works by different authors – visual artists, architects, writers and poets – with the aim of encouraging production, circulation and exchange between the different cultural …Read more
Contemporary Arab Representations is a long-term project which includes meetings, publications, productions, and presentations of visuals, texts, and discourses by various authors in many different cultural venues and other places. The aim of the project is to stimulate locally based …Read more
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