Son[i]a #204
Kristine Khouri
Kristine Khouri is a Beirut-based researcher, writer and photographer. Born and raised in Miami and Chicago, in 2008 she moved to Beirut where she worked as a researcher for Walid Raad. Her research focuses on modern art history in the Arab world.
With Rasha Salti, she co-founded a long-term research project called The History of Arab Modernities in the Visual Arts, which aims to investigate the undocumented realm of the production, exhibition, critical engagement and consumption of modern art in the Middle East in the period spanning from the1950s to the 1980s.
SON[I]A talks to Kristine Khouri about the traces of modernity in the Arab World, and about the changes that have been produced in, and in relation to, the postcolonial Arab narrative as a result of 9/11 and its global consequences. She also discusses the methodology that she uses to rewrite regional histories based on the analysis of documents and the production of knowledge.
Toni Serra - Abu Ali
Toni Serra/Abu Ali talks about trance, light, shadows, transitions, conditions of life and possibility, about seeing and concealing, about dreaming and unlearning. And about plants, of course.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Kristine Khouri that we were unable to include the first time around.
Rasha Salti
Rasha Salti talks about the methodology of unearthing images that she uses in her research, and about some of its repercussions. Her postcolonial analysis of artistic production in modernism favours new narratives about the former East and West.
Sigalit Landau
Sigalit Landau talks about her work and about the methodology she uses to develop her personal vision of the world. She also discusses the inherent contradictions and connections between biography, territory and politics in her work, and analyses the role of art as the language that can account for this convergence.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Rasha Salti that we were unable to include the first time around.