Walid Raad
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Walid Raad (Ra'ad) (born 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon) is a contemporary media artist.
His works to to date include video, photography and literary essays. All, in one way or another, deal with the contemporary history of Lebanon with particular emphasis on the wars in Lebanon between 1975 to 1991. The work is also often concerned with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions; and the ways film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence. [1] He is also a member of the Arab Image Foundation.
Raad received his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1989. He went on to complete his MA and Ph.D. in Cultural and Visual Studies at the University of Rochester in 1993 and 1996, respectively.
His works have been exhibited at Documenta 11 (Kassel), The Venice Biennale (Venice), The Whitney Biennial (New York), The Ayloul Festival (Beirut, Lebanon) and numerous other festivals in Europe, the Middle East, and North America.
He lives and works in New York, where he is currently an associate professor at the Cooper Union School of Art.
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[edit] Work
Raad's video works include Up to the South (Salloum/Raad, 60 min., 1993), a collection of video shorts titled The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs (Raad, 18 min., 1996-1999), and Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (Raad/Bachar), 18 min., 2000). Mixed-media projects include The Atlas Group: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive (1999 to the present), The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive (2001 to the present), and My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair (2004).
He also founded The Atlas Group in 1999, an imaginary foundation whose objective is to research and document Lebanon‘s contemporary history. The Altas Group is primarily presented through lectures that include films, photography exhibitions, videos, and a variety of documents from the group‘s archives. More recently, certain sections of the archive have been the object of a number of installations in museum spaces.[2]
[edit] Awards
- Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival. 2002 (First Prize)
- Vidarte 2002 Festival, Mexico City, Mexico. 2002 (First Prize)
- Oneiras Film and Video Festival, Lisboa, Portugal. 2002 (First Prize)
- Media Arts Awards, ZKM, Karlsrhue, Germany. 2002 (Special Prize)
- Black Maria Festival, 2002. (Juror Citation Award)
- Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland, 2001. (First Prize)
- Oberhausen Film and VideoFest, Oberhausen, Germany, 2001 (Rhineland Award)
- San Francisco International Film Festival, SF, CA, USA, 2000 (Certificate of Merit)
- 5th Biennial of Arab Cinemas, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, 2000 (Special Jury Prize)
- VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland, 2000. (First Prize)
- 8th Biennial of the Moving Image, Switzerland, 1999. (Grand Prize)
- Beirut Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon, 1999. (Best Short Film and Best Scenario for a Short Film)
- Black Maria Film and Video Festival, New Jersey, 1999. (Director’s Citation)
- Missouri Video Festival, St. Louis, MO, 1998. (Award of Accomplishment Experimental)
- New England Film and Video Festival, Boston, MA, 1997. (Best Conceptual Innovation Award)
- Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for 2007 (First Prize)
- Rencontres d’Arles (2006), “Lauréat d’Aide au projet” (Help for a new project), Arles
[edit] See also
- Arab Image Foundation
