Biography Jalal Toufic (Beirut, Lebanon, 1962)
Jalal Toufic is a writer, film theorist and video artist. He is the author of Undying Love, or Love Dies (Post-Apollo Press, 2002); Forthcoming (Berkeley: Atelos, 2000); Over-Sensitivity (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1996); (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (New York: Station Hill, 1993), and Distracted (New York: Station Hill, 1991). His video and installation works have been presented at Artists Space, New York; the Lab and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; UCLA Film and TV Archive; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, among others. He has been a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, USC, and DasArts, Amsterdam. Jalal Toufic is a 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
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