An informal conversation between Walid Raad and Adila Laidi-Hanieh, 2009
Walid Raad and Adila Laidi-Hanieh
An informal conversation between Walid Raad and Adila Laidi-Hanieh, 2009
Conversation
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
Overview
In An informal conversation between Walid Raad and Adila Laidi-Hanieh, Raad discusses his 15-year project The Atlas Group, his research on the uses of car bombs in the Lebanese wars, and his current research on the history of art in the Arab world; and Hanieh discusses the issues of culture and Arab modernities, with a focus on: culture and the public sphere, Palestinian self-representational paradigms, the instrumentalisation of culture in modernisation processes and culture and political processes.
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 9
Visuals
An informal conversation between Walid Raad and Adila Laidi-Hanieh
Walid Raad and Adila Laidi-Hanieh
2009
Conversation
Photo by Alfredo Rubio
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