{"id":18786,"date":"2025-01-22T11:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chra.bard.edu\/?p=18786"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:15:36","slug":"the-search-for-power-at-the-hessel-museum-this-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/uncategorized\/the-search-for-power-at-the-hessel-museum-this-february\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;THE SEARCH FOR POWER&#8221; AT THE HESSEL MUSEUM THIS FEBRUARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18792\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18792\" src=\"https:\/\/chra.bard.edu\/files\/2025\/01\/The-search-for-Power@Elina-Giounanli-Large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2025\/01\/The-search-for-Power@Elina-Giounanli-Large.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/files\/2025\/01\/The-search-for-Power@Elina-Giounanli-Large-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elina Giounanli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Search for Power\u201d is an interactive sound installation and a live lecture performance featuring CHRA Program Directors Tania El Khoury and Ziad Abu-Rish, presented by Fisher Center LAB and CCS Bard at the Hessel Museum this February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a night with a sudden electricity outage in their Beirut neighborhood, the artist and her historian husband discussed the history of power cuts in Lebanon. Born during the Lebanese Civil War, the artist had grown up with the understanding that the problem with electricity in Lebanon began during the war. The historian, however, recalled finding a government document dated 1952 that announced scheduled electricity outages across Beirut. The two decided to research the history of power outages in Lebanon, delving into the intersection between public utilities infrastructure, people\u2019s relationship to the state, and various popular mobilizations to shape both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In time, they reach as far back as the introduction of electricity in Beirut before it was even possible to imagine a Lebanese state. In space, they collect documents across Lebanon and beyond its borders, visiting the archives of colonial powers: Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. What they find is a transnational story that locates electricity at the intersection of colonial legacies, the machinations of political and economic elites, and everyday acts of resistance, survival, and sabotage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The installation is open February 1-23 from 11am-4pm. No tickets needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Purchase tickets for the live lecture performance held February 1-3 and 7-9 <a href=\"https:\/\/fishercenter.bard.edu\/events\/the-search-for-power\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Search for Power\u201d is an interactive sound installation and a live lecture performance featuring CHRA Program Directors Tania El Khoury and Ziad Abu-Rish, presented by Fisher Center LAB and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1673,"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":[82,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786","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\/1673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18793,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions\/18793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/chra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}