{"id":13221,"date":"2023-02-07T15:44:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chra.bard.edu\/?p=13221"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T19:02:42","slug":"sharjah-biennial-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/news\/sharjah-biennial-15\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRA\u2019s Tania El Khoury at Sharjah Biennial 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist and CHRA Director\u00a0Tania El Khoury<\/a> has been awarded Special Mention for the 2023 Sharjah Biennial Jury Prize, presenting two interactive installations at the Sharjah Biennial 15:\u00a0Cultural Exchange Rat<\/em>e\u00a0and\u00a0The Search for Power<\/em>. Both shows opened with the biennale on February 7, and her award was announces that evening at the Awards Gala. El Khoury is also presenting the live lecture-performance version of\u00a0The Search for Power<\/em> on February 10, 11, and 12, with collaborator Ziad Abu-Rish, historian and director of the\u00a0MA Program in Human Rights in the Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The <\/span>Sharjah Biennial<\/span><\/a> is an international platform for exhibition and experimentation for artists from the region and beyond. This year\u2019s edition, titled \u201cThinking Historically in the Present,\u201d was <\/span>conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and is curated by Sharjah Art Foundation Curator Hoor Al Qasimi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cultural Exchange Rate<\/i><\/b> is an interactive installation in which Tania El Khoury shares her family memoirs of life in a border village between Lebanon and Syria. <\/span>The audience is invited to immerse their heads into one family\u2019s secret boxes to explore the sounds, images, and textures of traces of more than a century of border crossings.<\/span> Marked by war survival, valueless currency collection, brief migration to Mexico, and a river that disregards the colonial and national borders, the project illustrates how the cruelest of borders can be invisible to the eye and yet present in everyday life<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>The Search for Power<\/i><\/b>, Tania El Khoury illuminates the story of electric power in Beirut in order to talk about the dark sides of history and inaccessible knowledge. Together with her historian husband, Ziad Abu-Rish, the pair dove into the archives in Lebanon, France, Belgium, England, and the United States and discovered a transnational story involving businessmen, politicians, warlords, multinational companies, and colonial powers. They also found traces of everyday acts of survival, resistance, and sabotage by electricity company workers and users of electric power.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sharjah 15<\/span><\/a> also includes previous CHRA collaborators Coco Fusco (<\/span>CHRA Talk 2021<\/span><\/a>), Faustin Linyekula (<\/span>CHRA Talk 2021<\/span><\/a>), and Michael Rakowitz (<\/span>CHRA Talk 2022<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Artist and CHRA Director\u00a0Tania El Khoury has been awarded Special Mention for the 2023 Sharjah Biennial Jury Prize, presenting two interactive installations at the Sharjah Biennial 15:\u00a0Cultural Exchange Rate\u00a0and\u00a0The Search […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-13221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-spring-2023"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13221"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13231,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13221\/revisions\/13231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}