ON/OFF

on mars watch, that moment in the Marina building in Beirut looks a though it took impact on August 4. the blast ripped crumple the city to shreds, with a bomb ranked third in the world after Hiroshima and Nagasaki - with many people still missing, killing more than two hundred, injuring six thousand five hundred or more, leaving some three hundred thousand homeless and five hundred thousand youth and more still migrating, is a sad day to recall for Beirut when time stopped at 607 for the world humanity to witness. now little things make me happy; the resilience in the Lebanese always resistant in the fight against terror and corruption helping one another picking up the pieces as one people bonded strong together gives me hope. i am finding utter beauty writing up an all new code in temporary make shift repairs on buildings through out the scaffold shroud city, wounded patched boarded with metal plates, frames of wood panels with plastics or volumes left empty await glass. if restoration were to keep deep scratch marks on the facade clad and empty space, lit up as remnant of blast highlights - VIVID so as to never forget - the bomb craft work new order in building esthetic design keeping live forever in our hearts mind the memory of scarcity.

MACAM has the pleasure to invite you to the opening of

UNIVERSAL DATA
An Exploration of our Digital Presence

On Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 6 pm
with Live-Performance by Manuela Hartel

"Every day 2.5 Quintillion bytes of data are created. That's 2,500,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data."

60 artists reflect on contemporary topics, such as access to information, digital identity, freedom of expression and online communities. This exhibition invites us to look at the various facets of our immaterial digital universe, unravelling its impact on humanity through multidisciplinary art forms.

Curated by Sara Schaub

Exhibition runs until December I, 2019

Location: MACAM Museum, Alita|Byblos (highway north, at Nahr Ibrahim, exit Qartaba, 7km uphill) Link to google maps

Link to the event on Facebook

Bus Shuttle Service available
Departure from Beirut at 5:00 pm, Martyrs Square
Roundtrip fee: $10
To reserve a seat, please call 03 197 900

Artists

International and Lebanese artists are presenting their installations, videos, sculptures, paintings and performances.

From Argentina Marcos Calvari; from Australia Stephen Copland; from Brazil Cecilia Cavallieri and Fellipe Vergani; from Canada Pierre Chaumont; from Cyprus Tatiana Ferahian, Marlen Karletidou, Andreas Tomblin; from Egypt Hassan Yasmein; from Germany Janina Baldhuber, Simon Freund, Manuela Hartel, Elisa Goldox, Anna Hohmeier, Nicola Koetterl, Joerg Rupert, Klaus von Bruch, Jack Wolf; from Greece Vasilis Karvounis;

from Italy artist duo Antonello-Ghezzi, Daniele Zerbi; from Jordan Areej Al Huniti; from Lebanon Ad Achkar, Layal Aoun, Haibat Balaa Bawab, Taline Balian, Samar Beydoun, Nevine Bouez, Layal Dagher, Raymond Essayan, Renee Fawaz, Noor Haidar, Carole Ingea, Rina Jaber, Rima Kadissi, Michel Karsouny, Selim Mawad, Elie Nafaa, Ayman Nahle, Wyssem Nochi, Hanan Sayegh, Rawan Shouman, Nour Sokhon, Maria Tabet, Shireen Taweel (Australia-Lebanon), Jacques Vartabedian, Nadine Zahreddine;

from Luxemburg Jacqueline Bejani; from Marocco Moawya Al Khadr; from Poland Alame Bilal, Joanna Zabielska; from Spain Eduardo Morales Palomares, Xavi Munoz; from Syria Rita Hassouany; Abdullah Sharw; from South Korea Lim Seung Kyun; from UK Jennifer Crouch, Kaspar Ravel, Vijay Patel (UK-India); from USA Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Carla Gannis, Jonathan Harris and from Venezuela Antonio Lazo.

Petals on a balcony in Beirut, handmade chairs n bamboo i designed and produced for Carwan. photo by Guillaume Delaubier.

“Lebanese Design, the Quest for Heightened Senses” article in Cedar Wings - read in-flight or on issue.com pp 98-99.