List of Participants

Abu Hamdan, Lawrence

Abu Hamdan, Lawrence

Artist

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a ‘private ear’, an artist who investigates sound.

Al Khalifa, Latifa

Al Khalifa, Latifa

Latifa Al Khalifa is a curator and arts manager who began her career as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bahrain.

Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris

Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris

Theatre directors

Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris have together developed numerous plays addressing social and political issues in present-day Greece.

Atallah, Nadine

Atallah, Nadine

(Madrassa Collective)

Nadine Attallah is an art historian whose research focuses on the exhibitions of women artists from Egypt during Nasser’s time.

Attalah, Lina

Attalah, Lina

Lina Attalah is a journalist, whose work has appeared in both Egyptian and international press outlets. Her work focuses on current affairs, technology and history.

Choi, Binna

Choi, Binna

Binna Choi is a curator and researcher who focuses on notions of community, intercultural relations and alternative approaches to social critique and empowerment.

Demirkazık, Gökcan

Demirkazık, Gökcan

Curator and writer Gökcan Demirkazık will soon be moving to a new position as Research/Editorial Assistant at SALT in order to work with curator Merve Elveren, who has worked extensively on the history of contemporary culture and arts in Turkey.

DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy)

DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy)

Led by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy. DESIGN EARTH is a design-research practice that examines the geographies of technological systems in connection with, for example, energy, trash, water and agriculture to open up aesthetic and political concerns for architecture and urbanism.

Ahmed Elghoneimy’s work as a filmmaker revolves around interpersonal tensions between various archetypal protagonists, such as sons and fathers, victims and perpetrators, bullies and friends, ideologies and those who act on them.

García Torres, Mario

García Torres, Mario

Artist, Filmmaker

Mario García Torres’s practice covers a combination of film, photography, sound and text to expose history and manufactured nature.

Karkhana

Karkhana

Karkhana’s lineup features artists from Beirut, Cairo and Istanbul whose individual projects echo a shared interest in sonic exploration.

Tohme, Christine

Tohme, Christine

Curator

Christine Tohme is the Founding Director of Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts.