Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Contemporary Syrian Art: the History of a Visual Revolution
1 march 2019
Scholars, members of associations, exhibition curators, and artists speak of the effects of the revolution - from war to exile - on contemporary Syrian art and on the creations of artists.
(Simultaneous French-Arabic translation)
With the participation of:
- Hassan Abbas, scholar, director of the program La Culture comme résistance at the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut
- Ola Abdallah, artist and doctor in aesthetics and contemporary art at the University of Paris 8
- Azza Abo Rebieh, artist
- Mohamad Al Roumi, photographic artist, founder of the Syrian Cultural Caravan
- Nour Asalia, artist, doctoral student in aesthetics and contemporary art at the University of Paris 8
- Nemat Atassi, representative of the Atassi Foundation in Paris
- Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac, art historian, Centre d’histoire de Sciences-Po
- Cécile Boëx, political analyst, senior lecturer at the EHESS
- Catherine Coquio, scholar, professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris-Diderot
- Pauline de Laboulaye, president of the Portes ouvertes sur l’art association
- Delphine Leccas, exhibition curator, artistic director of Rencontres internationales des cinémas arabes
- Randa Maddah, artist
- Farouk Mardam Bey, publisher and former president of the Souria Houria association, Paris
- Franck Mermier, researcher in anthropology, CNRS, EHESS
- Jack Persekian, exhibition curator, director of the Al Mamal foundation, Jerusalem
- Alma Salem, independent curator, founder of Syria Sixth Place and the Freedom Museum
- Sana Yazigi, graphic artist, founder of the site Mémoire créative de la révolution Syrienne
Detailed program and list of participants
All the videos of the session
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5cjTj8l3IllyqnlJP3kK0w
Session 1 -Art in Syria before 2011: the market and censorship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us47SC-g1Ks&list=PLzHjJwOdV18HeUkK0dZ2p1cBxgrWchpEr
Session 2 - New Places for Syrian Art: routes and networks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JipSZIRxEzM&list=PLzHjJwOdV18HeUkK0dZ2p1cBxgrWchpEr&index=2
Session 3 - Art as Political Expression: activism and citizens’ initiatives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf0GNJPF5oQ&list=PLzHjJwOdV18HeUkK0dZ2p1cBxgrWchpEr&index=3
Session 4 - Art in the Middle East, from resistance to resiliency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrwtYs_3jg&list=PLzHjJwOdV18HeUkK0dZ2p1cBxgrWchpEr&index=4
Conclusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ului-E_GLfY&list=PLzHjJwOdV18HeUkK0dZ2p1cBxgrWchpEr&index=5
Film on Syrian students at the Beaux-Arts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dPp13BDfh0&list=PLzHjJwOdV18HeUkK0dZ2p1cBxgrWchpEr&index=6
Testimony of Randa Maddah and Azza Abo Rebieh, images and subtitles