Visual Arts Festival Damascus

2012

 

curated by

Charlotte Bank & Delphine Leccas

 

The Visual Arts’ Festival Damascus was launched in October 2010 as an independent artistic event with a program of exhibitions, screenings, multi-media performances, lectures and talks. The aim of the festival is to create a forum for meetings and discussions focused on contemporary visual practice in the Middle East in dialogue with other regions of the world and to facilitate exchange between young artists from Syria and the neighbouring Arab countries.

The next edition of the festival was planned for autumn 2012. However, recent events in the country make it increasingly improbable to arrange this kind of event in Damascus in the near future. For this reason, the 2012 edition of the festival will have a nomadic form and see its premiere as a guest of the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

The programs will run from January 30 - February 2, 2012.

Programs:

Suspended Dreams

Experimentation and documentary in Syrian cinema, curated by Charlotte Bank

Shifting Shores

Video, installation and performance, curated by Charlotte Bank and Delphine Leccas 

Complete program:

http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/iffr-2012/programme/signals/signals-power-cut-middle-east/