Meta Wired Women S@lon 08: Heba Farid + Launch Electronic Journal .dpi 16

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2009 @ 3:00 PM

Presentation by Cairo-based interdisciplinary artist Heba Farid

Venue: STUDIO XX 4001 Berri St. (corner Duluth), Suite 201, Montréal
Tel: 514.845-7934 / by email
In English, French and Arabic. Tea, coffee and light fare will be served.
Free for Studio XX and OBORO members / $2.00 public

Heba Farid‘s presentation will focus on two topics: her artistic practice and her perceptions of the contemporary Cairo art scene.

Heba Farid is an artist based in Cairo, Egypt, working in photography and mixed/multimedia installation. Identity and “land” as two territories where various idea battles are fought, have been primary aspects of her work. She is also a founding Board member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), an independent artist-run initiative dedicated to the Visual Image in Cairo. (www.ciccairo.com).

.dpi no 16 « Resistance & Time »
.dpi’s 16th issue is the first in a three-issue series with the theme of resistance. It focuses more specifically on the concept of time-resistance art.  Time resistance is resistance against the passing of time, against an imposed memory.  So often, the details of our daily lives are forgotten, replaced by the constant influx of information we experience in today’s society.  Time resistance seeks to reverse this trend.  We can resist a system, an idea, an ideal, but how can we resist the passing of time?  Resistance art is tactile, poetic and political because it requires us, in our present culture with it inexorable focus on all things live and the instantaneous, to stop and think.  In this 16th issue of .dpi, we invite you to take your time: a time for struggle, for remembering, and for action—a critical time to form, with texts and links, a space for time resistance.
dpi.studioxx.org

Editor-in-chief .dpi # 16 : Émilie Houssa

Articles:
Marie-Laure Allain Bonilla « Inscription de mémoires, l’œuvre de Lamia Joreige entre poétique et documentaire »
Aude Crispel « Interview with Jackie Buet » (Founding Director of France’s Festival international des films de femmes de Créteil)
Anne Laforet « Resistance & Time: Open Formats and Open Source Software as Facilitators of Media Artworks’ Resistance to Time »

Chronicles:
Émilie Houssa « In the Studio: A Room of One’s Own »
Albertine Bouquet « Le sort du monde »
Maxime Philippe « elles@centrepompidou »