Pan-Arab Artistic Manifestations and the Production of Narratives

In partnership with ARP–ALBA-University of Balamand

Thursday 13 April, 19:00 to 20:30 at Sursock Museum

Alia Nakhli has carried out exceptional research on Arab art festivals and biennials in the 1970s and is one of the most qualified historians on the subject. The Union of Arab Artists, Al-ittihâd al-‘âm lil-fannânîn at-tashkîliyyn al-‘arab, played a leading role in organizing major artistic events, which took the form of biennials, symposia, congresses, and festivals. These meetings, which have faded from memory and been marginalized in historiography, also interest us for the discourses and narratives produced and presented there in.

ARP Talks: Sara Martinetti
“Transferred”: Seth Siegelaub’s Methods from Conceptual Art to Textile
In partnership with ARP–ALBA-University of Balamand
Thursday 20 April, 19:00 to 20:30 at Sursock Museum

Seth Siegelaub (1941-2013) is best known for his decisive role in the emergence and establishment of conceptual art in the late 1960s. When Siegelaub’s projects are examined in light of the intellectual technologies for organizing information such as bibliographies, maps, and lists, a more complex figure emerges, whose practice is anchored in a Gutenbergian tradition of publishing, while contributing new methods of implementing the dissemination of ideas.

Alia Nakhli holds an advanced master’s degree in art history and a degree in film and audiovisual studies from Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg and a Ph.D. in art history from Paris X-Nanterre-la Défense University. She is currently an assistant lecturer in art history at the École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies du Design, Manouba University, Tunisia.

Sara Martinetti is a French researcher and curator working across various disciplines including art history, anthropology of writing, and theories of craft. A Ph.D. student at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) since 2012 and a research assistant fellow at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris from 2012 to 2016. She is currently writing a dissertation on the pioneering exhibition organizer, publisher, and bibliographer Seth Siegelaub. In the course of her research, she has co-curated the exhibitions The Stuff That Matters: Textiles Collected by Seth Siegelaub for the CSROT (Raven Row, London, 2012) and Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2015-16), and co-edited the anthology “Better Read Than Dead.” Seth Siegelaub: Writings and Interviews, 1964-2013 (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017). She regularly contributes to various academic journals and lectures on issues related to textiles.

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