Jalal Toufic
Minor Art: Conceptual Posters and Book Covers
2000
– 2006 | Inkjet on paper| various dimensions
“Minor Art: Conceptual Film and Video Posters, presently
re-titled Minor Art: Conceptual Posters and Book Covers,
is a work in progress begun in 2000. The title draws on Gilles
Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s book Kafka: Toward a Minor
Literature. In his One Manisfesto Less, Deleuze
writes: ‘With regard to his play Romeo and Juliet,
Carmelo Bene says: “It is a critical essay on Shakespeare.”
But the fact is that CB is not writing on Shakespeare; his
critical essay is itself a piece of theatre.’ I would also
say, of my conceptual posters and book covers: they are critical
essays on certain films (Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan
of Arc, Angelopoulos’ Eternity and a Day, etc.),
videos and books—except that these critical essays are themselves
artworks.“
Born in Beirut in 1962 to an Iraqi father and a Palestinian
mother, Jalal Toufic is a thinker, writer, and artist. He
is the author of (Vampires): an Uneasy Essay on the Undead
in Film (1993; 2nd edition, 2003), Over-Sensitivity
(1996), Forthcoming (2000), Undying Love, or
Love Dies (2002), Two or Three Things I’m Dying to
Tell You (2005), ‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in
My Veins (2005), and Undeserving Lebanon (2007).
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