BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9561@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20240712 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20240721 DTSTAMP:20240624T161428Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/space-liverpool-liverpool-arab-a rts-festival-port-cities/ SUMMARY:Space Liverpool: Space Liverpool: Liverpool Arab Arts Festival: Por t Cities DESCRIPTION:\nPort Cities\n\n\n\n\nFriday 12 July - Saturday 20 July\, 12:0 0 pm - 4:00 pmSpace Liverpool\nFree\, no booking required\n\nIn partnershi p with British Council – MENA\, we proudly launch our international visu al arts project Port Cities. This exhibition premiere at Space Liverpool f eatures newly commissioned work by artists Mohamed Abdelkarim\, Laila Hida \, Nadia Kaabi-Linke and Siska.\n\nSituated where land meets sea\, global port cities have unique characteristics. Their social\, economic\, politic al and cultural heritage is deeply connected to their roles as key centres for trade and migration. The artists visited Liverpool on a research resi dency in February 2024 to inform the development of new artworks criticall y exploring the past and future of port cities in both Liverpool and the A rab region.\n\nFrom reflecting on Liverpool’s slave trade legacies to th e ecological impact of human activities\, this exhibition presents new art istic perspectives on how ports have and continue to shape the character o f cities\, and how we connect across seas.\n\nAfter premiering in Liverpoo l\, the Port Cities exhibition will tour internationally to Tripoli\, Leba non\; Alexandria\, Egypt\; Rabat\, Morocco\; and Tunis\, Tunisia throughou t 2024.\n\nArtist biographies\n\nMohamed Abdelkarim was born in 1983 in M inya\, Egypt. He currently lives and works between Cairo\, Rotterdam\, and Vienna where he is currently PhD candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna\, Austria.\n\nAbdelkarim’s works have been included in the Sharjah Biennial 11\, 2013\, Guild Master of Cabaret Voltaire\, Manif esta 11\, 2016\, Live Works Performance Act Award Vol. 5\, IT\, 2017 and B erlinale 72/Forum Expanded\, 2022. He has also received the Prix Excellenc e HES-SO in Switzerland 2016\, and has been shortlisted for the Henrike Gr ohs Art Award 2022.\n\nhttps://mohamedabdelkarim.com/\n\nLaila Hida is a Moroccan artist and cultural worker based in Marrakech. She is primarily i nterested in images and photography\, exploring their use as both archival material and triggers for fiction. Her recent work\, “Le Voyage du Phoe nix\,” explores the use of photography\, literature\, and cinema as tool s to distil the 20th century’s regime of desire.\n\nIn 2013\, she founde d LE 18 Marrakech\, a multidisciplinary cultural space and art residency b ased in the medina of Marrakech that extends her long-term intention to qu estion and explore the impact of the environment on art production\, media tion and research approaches. She has curated many programs in Morocco and internationally\, including the LE 18 collective proposal at Documenta 15 . She is also the initiator of Dabaphoto\, an annual program on photograph y and image-making in Morocco that is now in its 8th edition. In 2014 she was appointed to curate the Moroccan stop over of the Art Explora Festival \, a cultural odyssey in the mediterranean sea.\n\nhttps://lailahida.com/\ n\nNadia Kaabi-Linke was born Tunis\, Tunisia\, in 1978\, and raised in T unisia and the United Arab Emirates. She graduated from the University of Fine Arts\, Tunis\, in 1999\, and earned a PhD at Université Paris-Sorbon ne\, in 2008. Growing up between Tunis\, Kiev\, and Dubai\, and now residi ng in Berlin\, Kaabi-Linke has a personal history of migration across cult ures and borders that has greatly influenced her work. Her works give phys ical presence to that which tends to remain invisible\, be it people\, str uctures\, or the geopolitical forces that shape them. Kaabi-Linke lives an d works in Berlin.\n\nhttps://nadiakaabilinke.myportfolio.com/\n\nSiska w as born in Beirut and resides primarily in Berlin. He holds a Master’s d egree in Film and Audiovisual Arts from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. A key figure in the early Beiruti graffiti scene\, Siska has also produce d and performed music as part of the Lebanese Hip Hop group Kitaa Beirut قطاع بیروت . A large part of his practice involves archiveology\, examining sociopolitical narratives in relation to personal and collectiv e memories. It is common for his work to take the form of extended cinema where he applies cinematic codes as well as film language to explore vario us visual narrative techniques.\n\nAt the Haus der Statistics in Berlin in August-2021\, he co-curated a series of conversations\, films\, readings\ , and live performances as the artistic director of redeem ردیم \, a p latform for ongoing conversations between voices from Beirut in Berlin. Si ska has collaborated on numerous performance and music productions\, takin g a midway point between his career as a visual artist and musician. In 20 22\, he completed his residency and fellowship at Villa Aurora in Los Ange les. Siska’s work has been internationally shown\, including Martin Grop ius Bau (Berlin)\, Halle 14 (Leipzig)\, Paris 104 (Paris)\, Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus (Berlin)\, Beirut Art Center (Beirut)\, Mosaic Rooms (Lond on)\, Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) and Silent Green Kult urquartier among others.\n\nhttps://siska.info/\n\n….\n\nFurther event i nformation: \n\nVenue address: Space Liverpool\, 41 Stanhope Street\, Liv erpool\, L8 5RE\,\nThe exhibition is open between 12-4pm. Free admission.\ nAccess to the space is via stairs. There is disabled access via the downs tairs entrance to Space Liverpool.\n\nVisiting information:\n\nSpace Liver pool is a pleasant 20-minute walk from Liverpool City Centre via Jamaica S treet.\nThere is parking available in Cains Brewery car park. The address is Cains Brewery\, Stanhope Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5XJ. We encourage publ ic transport use\, cycling and walking where possible.\n\nPort Cities even ts:\n\nExhibition launch event\nFriday 12 July\, 1-4pm\, Space Liverpool. Free\, no sign up required.\n\nPort Cities symposium\nMonday 15 July\, 10a m – 4pm\, Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX.\n\nSlow Listening \nOnline\, from Friday 12 July.\n\nProject credits:\n\nPartners:\nBritish Council – MENA\n\nCuratorial selectors:\nSandra Dagher\, Lebanon\nHana El Beblawy\, Egypt\nAmel Ben Attia\, Tunisia\nFrancesca Masoero\, Morocco\ n\nBritish Council ARTIVATOR Fellowship in Art Curation:\nLin Dabbous\n\nV isual identity:\nSalt and Sister\n\n\n\n\nTickets &\; Booking informati on for all Liverpool Arab Arts Festival events can be found here: https:// www.arabartsfestival.com/2024-festival/here:  ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2024/06/Port-Cities-banner.png CATEGORIES:Exhibitions LOCATION:Space Liverpool\, 41 Stanhope Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5RE\, United Kingdom GEO:53.393177;-2.979926 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=41 Stanhope Street\, Liverp ool\, L8 5RE\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Space Liverpool:g eo:53.393177,-2.979926 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR