Rabih Mroué, Make Me Stop Smoking. Performance, 2006.

SATURDAY JANUARY 29, 2011 AT 7 PM
TWO LECTURES PERFORMED SUCCESSIVELY
MAI (MONTRÉAL, ARTS INTERCULTURELS),
3680, RUE JEANNE-MANCE

TWO NON-ACADEMIC LECTURES
SOLD OUT

Presented by the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.
Information: Marina Polosa
Tickets $10 available at MAI: 514-982-3386

These two lecture-performances by Rabih Mroué investigate history, collective memory, and collective amnesia. Mroué reconstructs the radical heterogeneous landscape of Lebanon, destroyed by crises and wars, with the aid of anonymous and personal documents, videos, photos, newspaper clippings, and eyewitness reports, all pieced together to create a complex system of meandering narratives.

Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, playwright, and visual artist who lives and works in Beirut. In 2010 Mroué was awarded the Spalding Gray Award as well as an Individual Grant for Performance Art/ Theater from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, New York. His work has been presented in numerous locations and contexts, including BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht; Performa 09, New York; the 11th International Istanbul Biennial; Queens Museum of Art, New York; and Tate Modern, London.

In association with Dazibao, which is presenting a retrospective of the artist’s videos from January 6th to February 4th.