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Febrik exhibition: Shall We Sit Together? Settings of Care, The Mosaic Rooms Young Collective with Febrik.
19/11/23—12/01/24
Starting in the Spring of 2023, Febrik collaborated with Mosaic Room’s Young Collective on a yearlong socially engaged art project which explored the political and social dimensions of sitting and working together. The group interrogated themes of care and protection as interpretations of solidarity.
Curatorial: On Rooftops and Under the Ground, a series of artistic interventions into the urban conditions of Beirut and the infrastructural challenges the city has confronted in times of crisis.
1 -15 July 2023
See link below for full program
https://togetherwetap.art/intervention/on-rooftops-and-under-the-ground/
The project was initiated by Hiba Bou Akar, director of Columbia University's Post-Conflict Cities Lab, in collaboration with artist and scholar Mohamad Hafeda (Leeds Beckett University) and TAP (Temporary Art Platform).
Solo exhibition: Titled "The Time While Waiting", at The Art House, Wakefield, UK, where the project participatory activities took place over the past three years.
The exhibition includes a film under the same title shown for the first time, in addition to visual mapping and timeline of the Temporalities of Displacement and Crisis in Online News Media.
Opening: 27 May 2023
Dates: 27 May – 24 June 2023
Read about the work:
https://the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitions/mohammad-hafeda-the-time-while-waiting/
Exhibition: Sewing Borders is part of No Access exhibition by Viewmaster Projects at a former NATO-Headquarters, Cannerberg, Maastricht. Curated by Bart van den Boom.
Dates: 16 Sept – 13 Nov 2022
Screening: Sewing Borders part of Zoe Leonard Screening Programme – 3 documentaries about border issues
Article: I wrote a short article Negotiating the temporalities of borders and displacements, for Grant in Focus, Philip Leverhulme Prize 2021, newsletter and online.
March 2022
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Prize: Mohamad Hafeda has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in the Visual and Performing Arts category for his work on socially engaged participatory art.
Book review: A review of “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut”. L’Orient Le Jour, by Danny Mallat. 24 July 2021
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Book talk: Book talk and panel discussion of “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in A Divided Beirut” hosted by Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut. 1 July 2021
This panel begins with the author introducing the book, followed by three discussants: Tania El Khoury (Director of the Center for Human Rights and The Arts at Bard College, New York), Sara Fregonese (Lecturer in Political Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK), and Ghenwa Hayek (Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago). Beirut Urban Lab.
1 July 2021
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Podcast: Speaking with Faculti about “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut”. 31 May 2021
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Screening: Sewing Borders screening part of “Imagining Queer Bandung” at Sinema Open Air, Berlin, on 30 June 2021
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Interview: Speaking with the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, about Sewing Borders, part of the exhibition “Trembling Landscapes: Between Reality and Fiction”. 30 Nov 2020
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Exhibition: Exhibiting Sewing Borders, film and maps, at the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, part of “Trembling Landscapes: Between Reality and Fiction”. Curated by Nat Muller. Opening 19 September 2020.
19 September 2020 – 3 January 2021
Book review: A review of “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut”. métropolitiques journal, by Assaf Dahdah. 17 September 2020
Book review: A review of “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut”. Journal of Borderlands Studies, by Misty Prigent. 11 February 2020
Book review: I am very happy to participate in “Reading Writing Quarterly”, an online Site-Writing platform by Jane Rendell.
Katja Hilevaara & Emily Orley read Mohamad Hafeda’s “Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut”, and Mohamad Hafeda reads Katja Hilevaara & Emily Orley’s “The Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice”. March 2020