Bidoun Nominated for National Magazine Award and Utne Independent Press Award!
Bidoun has been nominated for the 2009 National Magazine Awards for General Excellence Circulation under 100,000, and the 2009 Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence and for Social / Cultural Coverage.
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Bidoun is offering semester-long spring and summer internships. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Send questions or cover letters and resumes to Ali Heifetz at ali@bidoun.com.
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June 5th, 2009
Bidoun Does Venice Blog!
We’ve commissioned Bidoun correspondents from all corners to converge at the 53rd iteration of the Venice Biennale.
Collected here, Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver, Xerxes Cook, Lisa Farjam, Tom Morton, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie bring you tales from this oldest and most venerable of art events.
Click here to read further about the best shows, the fastest water taxis, the baddest of parties–and always delivered with that special Bidoun sensibility: vaguely exotic, always irreverent.
And as always, check our twitter page for regular updates!
June 1st, 2009
Bidoun, LACMA and the Cinémathèque de Tanger
LACMA’s Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, the Ralph M. Parsons Fund and Bidoun present Another Border - Films and Videos from the Cinémathèque de Tanger Archives at LACMA in Los Angeles this June. The series is co-curated by Bidoun contributor, collaborator and friend, Yto Barrada.
We will be hosting the screenings on Tuesday June 9 at 7PM in the Leo S.Bing Theater. Regular contributor Gary Dauphin will be presenting, along with the world premiere of the Bidoun video commercial and a Bidoun hosted intermission reception.
We hope to see you there!
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Tuesdays: June 9, 16, 23 & 30 | 7 pm | Bing Theater
Tickets required: $7 general admission, $5 museum members,
seniors (62+), students with valid ID
The Cinémathèque de Tanger is a nonprofit organization based in Tangiers, Morocco devoted to the preservation and promotion of Moroccan cinema. Curated by Bouchra Khalili and Yto Barrada, Another Border showcases the vitality of contemporary Moroccan film and video alongside the richness of historic archival footage from the region. This selection of Moroccan short movies, documentaries, experimental films, and videos follows the fault lines between representation and reality, in both daily life and extraordinary circumstances. The intersection between tradition, globalization, and shifting notions of ‘modernity’ creates not a clash, but a fertile space for reflection. Addressing both the complex space between the West and Morocco, the program provides a platform for further dialogue on the ideas of hope and hospitality.
April 29th, 2009
THE TOWNHOUSE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART SALE 2009
The Townhouse gallery is holding an international, contemporary art sale in the form of a live auction on Saturday 6th June 2009. Over thirty renowned artists, many from the Middle East region and with strong connections to the gallery, have donated works that will be exhibited in the Townhouse Factory space for a week in the run up to the auction.
From 7pm guests will be invited to view work and then from 8pm have the opportunity to place their bids. Those unable to attend in person can ask the gallery to bid on their behalf.
All funds raised will go towards the gallery and its outreach program which offers free workshops to adults and children, including those with special needs and from under-served communities.
All art works and details of participating artists can be viewed online from May 15th.
Auction entrance cards are 150 EGP (100EGP for Townhouse Friends) including a catalogue and bidding registration. These can be purchased by contacting fundraising@thetownhousegallery.com. Likewise, for those who would like to bid by proxy please contact the gallery directly on the above email address.
Participating Artists:
Adam Henein, Ahmed Askalany, Amre Heiba, Ala’ Younis, Anna Boghighuian, Ayman el Semary, Chant Avedissian, Damon Kowarsky, Doa Aly, Esmat Daoustachi, Essam Marouf, Farouk Hosny, George Bahgory, Huda Lutfi, John Jurayj, Khaled Hafez, Lamia Joreige, Lara Baladi, Lise Allam, Maha Maamoun, Marianne Eigenheer, Mohamed Sharkawy, Mona Hatoum, Nazli Madkour, Nermine Hammam, Rana El Nemr, Sabah Naim, Shady el Noshokaty, Swoon, Susan Hefuna, Tarek el Komi, Wael Shawky, Waheeda Malullah, Yiannis Hadjilaslanis.
April 19th, 2009
Dodi, Di, Poppy Fields & Enchiladas
Interview Magazine were big fans of our Dodi & Di lenticular pins at Art Dubai.
April 18th, 2009
Bidoun at Art Dubai Recap
BIDOUN VIDEO LOUNGE
Bidoun Lounge during set-up, photo by Katrin Greiling
Basim Magdy, Maybe There is a Message, 2008, video on DVD, 6 min. 55 sec.
Bidoun once again hosted the video lounge, a space for video, talks and performances. The lounge was co-designed by Traffic, with typography by the Khatt Foundation, and kindly supported by the Emirates Foundation. Programs included FLOWERS (curated by Bidoun), ME AND HER AND OUR PUNCTUATION MARKS (curated by Christine Tohme), and THE MESSAGE (curated by Sylvia Kouvali).
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YTO BARRADA AT BASTAKIYA
Yto Barrada, The Magician, 2003, Video, 18 min.
Bidoun Projects presented a screening of Yto Barrada’s 2003 film The Magician at the Bastakiya Art Fair.
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THE INHABITANTS OF IMAGES: RABIH MROUE
Photos by Katrin Greiling
The Inhabitants of Images, a new performance by the celebrated artist/actor Rabih Mroué, co-produced by Bidoun, Ashkal Alwan and Tanzquartier Wien, was presented in the Bidoun Lounge.
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FLOWERS POSTERS
  
Limited edition FLOWERS posters by Yto Barrada, Babak Radboy and Shirana Shahbazi, commissioned by Bidoun and co-produced with the Dubai-based boutique S*uce.
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BIDOUN PARTY!
Bidoun and The Third Line hosted a celebration of Sharjah Biennial 9 and Art Dubai week 2009 at the Golf Park at the Hyatt Regency Dubai, featuring Un-drum / strategies of surviving noise, a sound performance by Tarek Atoui (produced by Sharjah Biennial 9).
April 14th, 2009
Bidoun and Migrating Forms Present Moghollha (The Mongols)
Bidoun and the Migrating Forms festival present a very rare and special screening of Parviz Kimiavi’s 1973 experimental satire, Moghollha (the Mongols).
Moghollha (The Mongols)
Parviz Kimiavi
16mm On Video / 92 min / 1973
Included in Jonathan Rosenbaum’s list of 1000 essential films, Parviz Kimiavi’s The Mongols (1973) is a leftfield satire and sharp commentary on the expanding presence of cinema and television in Iran. The story follows a filmmaker, played by Kimiavi himself and also named Parviz, as he struggles with both his own film and a looming assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in the remote province of Zahedan. Imbued by his wife’s thesis work on the Mongol invasion of Iran, Parviz’s anxieties coalesce and materialize in the form of surreal visions in which the origins of cinema are acted out by the Turkomans he hired to play Mongols in his own film. Together with Parviz, we watch as the would-be gang of Mongols wander the desert in search of their director and the answers to their pressing questions about the nature of cinema, all while the forthcoming introduction of television consumes the local village and its inhabitants. Kimiavi fashions a fantastical cinematic space rife with bizarre metaphoric imagery and Godardian references to film-making in order to draw a sarcastic parallel between the Mongol invasion and the hyper-accelerated modernization of 1970s Iran.
Sunday April 19th, 2009 at 4pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, New York
$8 in advance / $10 day-of-show
www.bidoun.com
www.migratingforms.org
April 12th, 2009
Call For Interns
Bidoun is offering semester-long spring and summer internships. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Send questions or cover letters and resumes to Ali Heifetz at ali@bidoun.com.
April 10th, 2009
Art Mag Nite at BookCourt Brooklyn
Readings and party with Paper Monument, Cabinet, Pin-Up, and Bidoun
Wednesday April 15, 2009 at 7pm
BookCourt
163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY
FREE
April 6th, 2009
Bidoun Nominated for National Magazine Award and Utne Independent Press Award
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Bidoun has been nominated for the 2009 National Magazine Awards for General Excellence Circulation under 100,000, and the 2009 Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence and for Social / Cultural Coverage.
April 5th, 2009
Sharjah Biennial 9: Provisions For The Future
PROVISIONS is an experimental exhibition catalogue/artist’s project, co-published by Bidoun and Sharjah Biennial 9 and designed by The Khatt Foundation. It is the first in a two-book series that reflects the Sharjah Biennial’s particular focus on production and process, documenting all the new work in this year’s Biennial, from conception to realization. Part II is to be published to coincide with Art Dubai in 2010.
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