Marwa Arsanios
In conversation with Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez Together they will talk about Marwa Arsanios’ last video “ Falling is not collapsing, falling is extending “, 2016, presented recently at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), that looks into the garbage crisis in Beirut and the city’s recent real estate boom. Please book on: contact@kadist.org Marwa Arsanlos (b. 1978, Washington DC, lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon) received her MFA from University of the Arts London in 2007, and was a researcher in the Fine Art department at Jan Van Eyck Academie from 2011 to 2012. She has had solo exhibitions at Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2016), Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2015), and Art in General, New York (2015). Her work was also shown at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013) in the Future Generation Art Prize exhibition, the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), Home Works Forum in Beirut (2010, 2013, 2015), the New Museum, New York (2014), M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium (2013), and nGbK, Berlin (2012). Screenings of her videos have taken place at the Berlinale, Berlin (2010, 2015), e-flux storefront, New York (2009), and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2011). In 2012 Arsanios was awarded the special prize of the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize. She is the co-founder of the research project 98weeks. She is also a part time teacher. Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez is an independent curator, editor and writer, she lives and works in Paris. Among the projects and exhibitions she curated are Let’s Talk about the Weather. Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis ( http://www.sursock.museum/content/lets-talk-about-weather-art-and-ecology-time-crisis ) at the Sursock Museum in Beirut. She is a co-organizer and co-founder of the seminar “Something You Should Know » ( http://sysk-ehess.tumblr.com/ ) at EHESS, Paris (with Elisabeth Lebovici and Patricia Falguières), and a member of the research group Travelling Féministe ( http://www.travellingfeministe.org/site/ ), at Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, Paris. She is the chief editor of L’Internationale Online, the publishing platform of L’Internationale – the confederation of cultural institutions