Tarek Atoui, Un-drum /
strategies of surviving noise, performed at Sharjah Biennial
2009
Tarek Atoui
Lebanese Artist
'Un-drum
/ strategies of surviving noise' is an intense and
physical electronic sound performance composed; programmed,
engineered, and performed by Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui.
The performance, produced by the 'Sharjah Biennial 9' in 2009,
will be performed at the archaeological site of Darat al Funun
on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 8 pm. The work draws upon
the three days of arrest and torture the artist experienced
during the July 2006 war on Lebanon, during which he permanently
lost partial hearing in his left ear after receiving a beating
to the head. ‘Un-drum / strategies of surviving noise’ draws
parallels between attempts to break states of physical and
psychological detention and siege and the collapsing of musical
performance boundaries, laptop art and electronic music.
'Bytes
and Pieces' is a multi-stage workshop organized by
Darat al Funun and conducted by Lebanese media artist and
sound performer Tarek Atoui. The workshop will commence on
September 28th, 2009, with a talk by Atoui that will shed
light on the application of new technologies to art projects.
The workshop will take place over the course of four months,
throughout which the participants will be introduced to the
world of art-related software and hardware programming, and
to several methods of working that apply interactive technologies
(interfaces, sensors etc.) to the frame of contemporary and
interdisciplinary art forms while working in direct collaboration
with the artist. The workshop is open to participants from
Jordan and Palestine.
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Tarek Atoui
was born in Lebanon in 1980 and moved to Paris in 1998
where he studied contemporary and electronic music at
the French National Conservatoire of Reims. He currently
works in the Netherlands as co-artistic director of
the STEIM Studios in Amsterdam and has released his
first solo album on the esteemed Mort Aux Vaches series
of the Staalplaat label (Amsterdam/Berlin). Atoui is
an electro-acoustic musician who initiates and curates
multidisciplinary interventions, events, concerts and
workshops in Europe and the Middle East. He builds new
software for each project he works on and specializes
in creating computer tools for interdisciplinary art
forms and youth education. He has played and performed
at many contemporary art events and festivals in the
Middle East and Europe such as the Today's Art Festival
(the Hague), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Arborescence
(Aix-en-Provence/ Marseille) and Scopitone (Nantes),
and is currently the artist in residency at the Sharjah
Biennial that has been closely following his work since
2008. Much of Atoui's work references the social and
political and presents electronic music and new technologies
as powerful tools of expression and identity. A major
and pioneering project of this nature was the youth
dedicated Empty Cans workshop that took place in summer
2007 in France, Holland, Lebanon and Egypt in partnership
with the Today's Art Festival, STEIM, the European Cultural
Foundation and the Scopitone festival among others...
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