THE BIDOUN LOUNGE AND ARTISTS' CINEMA



Many thanks to all involved in helping to create the Bidoun Artists' Cinema and Video Lounge at Art Dubai 2008 , particularly the participating artists - Akram Zaatari, Ziad Antar, Hossam El Sawah, Rosalind Nashashibi, Iman Issa, Nadine Khan, Shahryar Nashat, Yasmeen Al Awadi, Walter Benjamin, Matthew Grover, Anna Witt, Shahab Fotouhi, Yoshua Okon, Chris Evans, LouLou Cherinet, David Maljkovic and Haluk Akakce - and our design partners, Traffic and the Khatt Foundation. The cinema featured presentations on the hour, every hour, during the fair, while screens in the lounge showed videos on a loop. Curators Nav Haq, Tirdad Zolghadr, Negar Azimi, Hassan Khan, Antonia Carver and Lisa Farjam participated in discussions with students and local filmmakers and artists, and there was a session on video included in the Global Art Forum. The three programs will now tour to the International Academy of Art, Palestine.

Bidoun also presented Emre Huner: Panoptikon at the Creek Art Fair: click here for further details, and co-hosted the Closing Night party of the fair on Friday March 21, with Sketch and The Third Line.

traffic design competition

The Dubai-based design platform and gallery TRAFFIC has launched the Middle East's first annual design competition.

The jury panel includes critic Shumon Basar, architect Khalid Al Najjar (DXB-LAB), and designers Karim Rashid and Konstantin Grcic.

First round entries will be accepted until March 09 2008.

Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East

Edited by Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver and Markus Miessen
A Bidoun Book co-published by Bidoun and Moutamarat
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