Artist Sandra Schäfer in conversation with Professor of Urban Studies and Politics Mona Harb chaired by architect Joseph Rustom
On occasion of Sandra Schäfer's exhibition
(Re)constructed Uncertainties. Haret Hreik - Mleeta the artist will discuss with professor Mona Harb the reconstruction of Haret Hreik after 2006 as well as the museum of the resistance Mleeta. Both projects are part of a military conflict and a geopolitical network in which architecture takes part in the production of space, landscape, and memory. Which role does architecture and urban planning play in a logic of brief intervals of warlessness? The participants will discuss these and other questions against the backdrop of their respective work emphases in art, architecture, urban and political studies. The discussion will be chaired by Joseph Rustom (ALBA).
The exhibition
(Re)constructed Uncertainties. Haret Hreik – Mleeta at the Hangar in Beirut will be on until 24.10.2019.
Mona Harb
The Professor of Urban Studies and Politics at the American University of Beirut is author of
Le Hezbollah à Beyrouth (1985-2005): de la banlieue à la ville (2010), co-author of
Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut (2013, with Lara Deeb), co-editor of
Local Governments and Public Goods: Assessing Decentralization in the Arab World (2015, with Sami Atallah). Her ongoing research investigates local governance and displacement, as well as urban activism and oppositional politics.
Sandra Schäfer
The artist works with film and video installations including stills/photography. Therein she deals with processes of unfolding and rereading of documents, images, spatial narratives and performative gestures. Often her works are based on longer researches, in which she is concerned with the margins, gaps and discontinuities of our perception of history, political struggles, urban and geopolitical spaces. Her works were exhibited at 66th and 67th Berlinale (Forum Expanded), Berlin; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; mumok, Vienna; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Depo, Istanbul; La Virreina, Barcelona; National Gallery of Art, Vilnius; Camera Austria, Graz; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
www.mazefilm.de
Chaired by
Joseph Rustom
The conservation architect, urban planner and scholar was research fellow of prestigious institutions like the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Berlin Forum Transregional Studies, and the German Research Foundation (DFG). His current research deals with the role of religious architecture in the processes of identity construction in Lebanon. He is currently assistant professor and director of studies at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA).
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