As part of ear-whispered, Lisa Kraus, project director, and Pepon Osorio, project consultant, were slated to visit Beirut in January 2018 to meet area artists and better understand the context out of which Tania El Khoury’s work arises. Unfortunately this trip was prevented because Bryn Mawr College’s insurers don’t provide coverage in Lebanon. Instead, a… Read more »
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New video on the making and impact of Tell Me What I Can Do
Conversation with Mohamed Ali “Dali” Agrebi, Pepón Osorio, Lisa Kraus and Tania El Khoury
As part of ear-whispered, Lisa Kraus, project director, and Pepón Osorio, project consultant, were slated to visit Beirut in January 2018 to meet area artists and better understand the context out of which Tania El Khoury’s work arises. Unfortunately this trip was prevented because Bryn Mawr College’s insurers did not provide coverage in Lebanon at… Read more »
New Video for Stories of Refuge at Twelve Gates Arts
Samer Abboud’s Reflections on Syria
The following text by Samer Abboud is from his talk at the Reflections on Syria event with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture on September 8 , 2018, at Sought in Philadelphia, part of the ear-whispered programming. Samer Abboud is an Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University. He has published extensively on contemporary Syria, including a widely… Read more »
Conversation with Abir Saksouk, Pepón Osorio, and Lisa Kraus
As part of ear-whispered, Lisa Kraus, project director, and Pepon Osorio, project consultant, were slated to visit Beirut in January 2018 to meet area artists and better understand the context out of which Tania El Khoury’s work arises. Unfortunately this trip was prevented due to Bryn Mawr College’s insurers not providing coverage in Lebanon. Instead,… Read more »
A very contemporary artistic enquiry!
by Kinana Issa Holding a pen or a keyboard and having the privilege of speaking up when others can’t is a huge responsibility. Especially if those you’re speaking for literally don’t have voices to speak up for themselves. In Gardens Speak in particular, these voices were buried six feet under, depending on how deep their… Read more »
I Once Fell in Love with an Audience Member: Practice, Performance, Politics
BY TANIA EL KHOURY “I Once Fell in Love with an Audience Member” was originally published by Ibraaz, a critical forum on visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East. Reposted here with permission. Performance art is essentially feminist. Performance art is inherently political. Performance art challenges the status quo, state violence, oppression, and patriarchy…. Read more »
Read The Philadelphia Inquirer article about Tania El Khoury’s ear-whispered
At Fringe Fest starting Thursday: Art that involves your body in what it feels like to be a refugee by Bethany Ao, Posted: September 4, 2018, PHILLY.COM When Lisa Kraus saw Tania El Khoury’s Gardens Speak in Amsterdam, she knew she had to bring the Beirut performance artist to Philadelphia. Kraus, performing arts coordinator at… Read more »
Performing The “Arab”
By Tania El Khoury This text is based on a presentation given by the author at Fem Fresh event at Queen Mary University in London in 2014 and was published in the Kohl Journal for Body & Gender Research in 2016. During the wave of uprisings that swept through the regions of the Middle East… Read more »
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