Conversations: Revolutions of the Present / Omar Amiralay: Civic Imagination
MP6: Contemporary Art Festival from the Arab World
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Entrance is free and on a strictly first come, first served basis.
The distribution of entrance tickets begins one (1) hour before the event.
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The lectures will be given in English with simultaneous translation into Greek
Introduction
"Revolutions of the Present" seeks to underscore the processes that link Civic Imagination and Struggle.
"Conversations: Revolution of the Present" seeks to underscore the vitality of the processes that link Civic Imagination and Struggle. As the collapse of many regimes in the Arab world exposed urgent civic and political demands, the current events of change, transformation and renewal move way beyond the frontier of technocratic "reform". Where popular disenchantment cannot be confined within a specific contemporary practice, new horizons of the future need to be and are already constructed and imagined. Thinkers, writers and artists engage in a series of conversations offering a philosophical insight that will provide an important contextual orientation of the "Meeting Points 6" project.
The retrospective of the Syrian filmmaker, Omar Amiralay, presents a journey of an artist imagining and documenting alternative civic for the last 40 years. Amiralay’s body of work covers crucial cultural, political and social issues that are considered essential chapter on the modern history of Syria.
Session 1
18:00-19:00
Okwui Enwezor: "Civitas, Citizenship, Civility. Art and the Civic imagination"
A lecture by the curator of "Meeting Points 6", moderated by the art curator Christos J. Joachimides.
19:00-20:00
"The Art of the Civic"
Mona Hatoum speaks with Okwui Enwezor about the relationship between art and the civic society.
Intermission
20:30-22:00
"Common Grounds and Belongings: A critical look at the Civic"
The writers Ahdaf Soueif (Egypt/London) and Adania Shibli (Palestine) in conversation with the President of the National Commission for Human Rights, Kostis Papaioannou.
Intermission
Session 2
22:30
Οmar Amiralay: "Civic Imagination"
Retrospective, with screening of his films "Film Essay on the Euphrates Dam" (Syria), 1970, 12 min. / "Everyday Life in a Syrian Village" (Syria), 1974 , 80 min. / "Α Flood in the Baath Country" (Syria/France), 2003, 46 min.
Films in Arabic with subtitles in English.
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