4 Nov 2007 to 28 Nov 2007
Curator Amer Abbas
Opening Reception: Sunday, Sep 9, 2007, 7 pm
The Townhouse Gallery
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Cairo
Downtown Cairo
Egypt
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MP5 Meeting Points: A Festival of contemporary arts in collaboration with the Young Arab Theatre Fund Curator: Frie Leysen Associate curator: Maha Maamoun November 4 – November 28, 2007
Meeting Points is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts festival presenting a broad range of art forms spanning visual arts, film, theatre, performance, dance and music. It runs through November 2007 in nine cities in the Middle East and North Africa (Amman, Damascus, Beirut, Ramallah, Alexandria, Cairo, El Minia, Tunis, Rabat). It aims to provide a platform for the support, creation and circulation of contemporary art coming out of this area and beyond. Previously focused on Arab artists only, with the aim to increase their as yet limited opportunities of exhibiting and sharing their work in their countries of origin and region, the 5th edition of Meeting Points (MP5) now opens up to include non-Arab artists. MP5 chooses to focus on strong, critical and innovative voices that question and re-define the boundaries of their art-forms. The festival presents around 40 artists, both emerging and established, with a combination of new and existing works. The central program of MP5 will not travel in its entirety to each of the participating cities, rather each city will present a slightly different selection of artistic projects from the central program, with common threads running throughout. In addition to the central program, in each city a local curator is invited to propose a project as part of the festival.
Participating artists at the Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art:
Wael Shawky, Telematch Supermarket, Telematch Sadat (Video) Yto Barrada, The Magician-The Smuggler (Video) Roy Samaha, Please Rewind Me Later (Video) Rami Sabbagh, 2mg of Rotten Blood (Video) Khalil Rabbah, TV ZERO123 (Video) Rabih Mroue, How Nancy Wished That Everything Was An April’s Fool Joke (Performance) Amal Kenawy, Eating Me Inside (Performance) Hiroaki Umeda, Accumulated Layout-While Going To A Condition (Dance) Selma and Sofiane, WACL (Dance) Walid Raad, The Loudest Muttering Is Over (Lecture Performance) Sherif El Azma (Films Night) Ali Essafi (Films Night) Akram Zaatari (Films Night)
For further details on the artists and the exhibitions please visit the festival’s website at: www.meetingpoints.org
