The flag
The flag
Omar Fakhoury
A flag is erected on Dalieh’s site with “the sea” in Arabic (al bahr) written on it as if the sea was claiming back its territory: Dalieh. Fakhoury intended to use political parties’ and the government’s practice of claiming neighborhoods, lands, and geographical “appartenance”. The flag was visible along the coast.
The Dalieh Campaign and Save Beirut Heritage have designed a city-wide program to take place during the Ministry of Culture’s “Heritage Week” in May 2017 and the Beirut Design Week 2017, that includes talks and public discussions, site interventions and installations, school workshops and site visits, concerts and street fairs. The program aims to recognize citizens and city users as active partners in the battle to save the city’s heritage, and to enable them to voice their concerns about the market-led developments and laisser-faire governance that are changing the character and identity of Beirut. In collaboration with The Civil Campaign to Protect the Dalieh of Raouche, Temporary Art Platform invited contemporary artists Mustapha Jundi, Omar Fakhoury, Ieva Saudargaité Douaihi, Nadim Mishlawi, Raymond Gemayel, Ghassan Maasri, and artist collective Pascal Hachem and Rana Haddad (200 gr.) to intervene on-site. Dalieh is one of our last-open access shared space in Beirut, the last free entry point to the sea along the city coast. Dalieh's unique landscape and ecological features as well as its rich diversity of topographical and geological composition facing the iconic Pigeon Rock make it a favorite hang-out site for families and lovers, an exceptional spot for fishing and swimming activities for the local community. Dalieh is threatened and is subject of dubious and corrupt privatization, its future is uncertain; image renderings of luxury resorts overlooking Raouché are already in circulation... Monumental gestures (Omar Fakhoury) and intangible ones (Omar Fakhoury) participative approaches (Ghassan Maasri and Raymond Gemayel) and historical interpretations (Mustapha Jundi), absurd situations (Pascal Hachem and Rana Haddad) and didactic signs (Ieva Saudargaité), ephemeral place making (Kunsthalle 3000) and poetic listening (Nadim Mishlawi) grapple with experiential and performative ways of engaging with the site’s intrinsic human, natural and cultural values and features, involving new publics and expanding the understanding of contemporary art.
Year: 2017
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Date: 2017
Location: The Dalieh of Raouche
Medium: Installation
Material: Flag, crane
Section: Contemporary
Duration: Temporary
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Site-specific Intervention
Site-specific Intervention
Site-specific artworks / projects take into consideration the location where it is to be exposed, with regard to both space and community. In other words, it is marked with the site’s history, physical elements, topographical features, socioeconomic factors and/or other significant elements, which make the work impossible to displace, or, at the least, less relevant if not apprehended within this site.
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Site-specific artworks / projects take into consideration the location where it is to be exposed, with regard to both space and community. In other words, it is marked with the site’s history, physical elements, topographical features, socioeconomic factors and/or other significant elements, which make the work impossible to displace, or, at the least, less relevant if not apprehended within this site.
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Framework: Art Interventions on Dalieh
Authorizations: Flag, crane
Commissioner: Temporary Art Platform, the Civil Campaign to Protect the Dalieh of Raouche
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