Beyrouth, 6db Underground – Screening

KLEIO PROJECTS PRESENTS
BEIRUT TANGENTS (part 2)

BEYROUTH, 6DB UNDERGROUND
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 7:30-9:00PM
$FREE, Q+A with filmmakers will follow screening

Beyrouth, 6db Underground, by Serge Abiaad & Philippe Tremblay-Berberi

Philippe Tremblay-Berberi & Serge Abiaad’s documentary, Beyrouth, 6 db Underground, captures the energy and complexity of Beirut’s underground music scene, which spans from experimental to post-punk, hip hop to electronica.  Filmed in Autumn of 2007, the film features interviews and music by six members of this diverse underground and provides a backdrop for Tania Traboulsi’s photographs, which hang in the main gallery.  Beyrouth, 6db Underground includes music by Zeid Hamdan, Mazen Kerbaj, Katibe 5, Siska, Charbel Haber, and Radwan Moumneh;  it is in French, English, and Arabic, with English subtitles added for this screening.

7:30PM-8:00PM Reception
8:00PM-9:00PM Film Screening
Q+A with Philippe Tremblay-Berberi + Serge Abiaad will follow screening

Beirut Tangents are digressions from and complements to Tania Traboulsi’s exhibition, Music is Life: Lebanese Sound Stills. Organized by Julie Sengle + Alexis Bhagat

Tanya Traboulsi’s ongoing series, Music is Life: Lebanese Sound Stills, is a unique glimpse into the flourishing alternative music scene in Beirut. The diversity of the Lebanese underground is significant: experimental to post-punk, electronica to rap and hip hop, these musicians continue to gain international attention. Traboulsi’s images give us intimate access to recording sessions, concerts, and otherwise private moments. musicislifeexhibit.wordpress.com for updates + schedule.

Itinerant gallery KLEIO PROJECTS aims to promote emerging artists working in video, photography, installation, painting and new media in venues throughout New York City. Directed by Christine O’Heron.

Film Screening + Installation

KLEIO PROJECTS PRESENTS
BEIRUT TANGENTS (part 1)

*Projections & Video Works*
Friday, July 17, 2009
Reception from 6:30 – 8:00
Film screening from 8:00 – 9:30,  $FREE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*/Khasso/* (2009) is site-specific work by Nayef Homsi in Kleio Projects back room. Homsi, a New York based artist who was born in Beirut and exiled to France at age six, creates paintings and projections that address cultural estrangement through an investigation of diverse subject  matter —  from military leaders and cultural landmarks to permutations and mediations of queer desire and aesthetics in film and photography. In /Khasso, /Homsi projects found images relating to the Dunkin Donuts in “Down Town” Beirut, which has oddly developed into an active gay cruising ground. /Khasso/ will be on display at Kleio Projects until July 24th, 2009.

*/Shoot the War/* (2006) is a collection of short films created by young Lebanese artists during the July War in 2006. Produced by An Ant Passing <http://www.namlehat3a.blogspot.com/> and selected by curators Beatrice Harb and Nina Najjar specifically for this New York screening, this presentation is a rare opportunity to view artists bearing witness to the war in Lebanon. It includes work by Ana Noguieria + Jackson Allers, Halim Sabbagh, Hisham Jaber, Jean-March Nahas, Maroun Chaccour, Rania Rafei, Shoushan Dedeyan, and Tarek Kandil. Screening at 8:00pm. Running time: 39 mins

*/Talk City to Me/* (2008) by Dena al-Adeeb and Youmna Chlala is an exploration of the points where cities shape and transform each other. The interviews are based on social sculpture in Cairo where artists and writers identify quotidian objects (found and produced) that define their relationship to an imagined and contemporary Beirut and Baghdad.
Silent loop during reception & screening at 9:00pm. Running time: 20 mins

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*/Beirut Tangents/ *are digressions from and complements to Tania Traboulsi’s exhibition, /Music is Life: Lebanese Sound Stills./ Organized by Julie Sengle + Alexis Bhagat

*/KLEIO PROJECTS/ *aims to promote emerging artists working in video, photography, installation, painting and new media in venues throughout New York City. Directed by Christine O’Heron.

Music is Life: Lebanese Sound Stills

Tanya Traboulsi’s ongoing series, Music is Life: Lebanese Sound Stills, gives a unique glimpse into the flourishing alternative music scene in Beirut.  The diversity of the Lebanese underground is significant:  experimental to post-punk, electronica to rap and hip hop, these musicians continue to gain international attention.  Traboulsi’s images give us intimate access to recording sessions, concerts, and otherwise private moments.

Music is Life:  Lebanese Sound Stills is Traboulsi’s first solo exhibition in New York.

Opening:  Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Location: Kleio Projects – 206 East 7th Street and Avenue B, NYC

This exhibition is curated by Christine O’Heron.  Special Events  TBA.

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