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Date: | Apr 9, 2014 6:00pm |
Organized by: | CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) AUC ARTS D-CAF - Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival |
Venue: | Cairo Atelier (Atelier du Caire) |
Address: | 2 Karim el-Dawla Street, off Mahmoud Bassiouny, Downtown Cairo, Egypt |
Event Language: | Arabic with English translation |
Website: | http://www.facebook.com/events/1433272053578633/ http://www.d-caf.org/event/view/39 |
April 9, 6-8 pm: Artist’s talk with Hassan Khan (in Arabic with English translation) – Cairo Atelier
Part of the Footnotes to Hassan Khan program (see Related Events) in the context of the "Selected Survey Exhibition - Hassan Khan." These programs have been co-organized by CLUSTER and the AUC Sharjah Art Gallery as part of AUC_LAB, in collaboration with D-CAF.
Hassan Khan (1975) is an artist, musician, and writer. Recent exhibitions include: The Unrest of Forms, Secession, Vienna, 2013; Hassan Khan, SALT, Istanbul, 2012; Documenta 13, Kassel, 2012; Intense Proximity, Paris Triennial, 2012; and The Ungovernables, New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, 2012. His first solo show was i am a hero / you are a hero in 1999 at the Gezira Art Center, Cairo. Most recently for the Nuit Blanche Festival Khan premiered Composition for a Public Park, a large scale multichannel music and lights installation at the Parc du Belleville in Paris. Khan also regularly performs his own music live; recent appearances include: Klangzeit Festival, Munster; Maerz Musik Festival, Berlin 2013; Ghetto, Istanbul, 2013; Auditorium du Louvre, Paris 2012; Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice, 2012; and as the opening act for the 1st D-CAF Festival, Cairo, 2012. His publications include The Agreement (2011) and Nine Lessons Learned from Sherif El Azma (2009). Khan lives and works in Cairo, Egypt.