Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front – 303 8th Ave East, Vancouver Free Admission
Scriveners Monthly presents an evening with thinker and artist Jalal Toufic, who will
give the lecture “The Dancers Two Bodies.” Produced in partnership with the Audain
Visual Artist in Residence program and SFU Galleries, Jalal Toufic’s talk
accompanies Walid Raad’s exhibition at the Audain Gallery. Toufic and Raad are
contemporaries whose art and writing are, almost uncannily, aligned; their works
destabilize narratives of history by way of fictive philosophical and logical
constructions which fold time. Each artists work engages a divergent range of
topics, but repeatedly returns to query the history of Lebanon and its civil wars.
Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or
Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. He was most recently a
participant in the Sharjah Biennial 11, the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Documenta 13, Art
in the Auditorium III (Whitechapel Gallery) and Six Lines of Flight (SF MOMA). In
2011, he was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD.
Co-presented with the School for Contemporary Arts Audain Visual Artist in
Residence Program and SFU Galleries.