[van-announce] Salloum videowork at UBC-4

[JSalloum at aol.com]

history of the present/untitling memory: 
the recent video work of Jayce Salloum

A Presentation by Jayce Salloum
3:30 pm, February 4

Rm 310, Scarfe Edu. Bldg, 2125 Main Mall, UBC

With an Introduction by Laura U. Marks


In the post 9/11 climate in late 2001, the Canadian Museum of Civilization 
took the controversial decision to postpone the exhibit, ‘The Lands Within Me: 
Expressions by Arab-Canadian Artists’. The piece at the centre of that 
controversy was Jayce Salloum’s ‘untitled’ video installation. Salloum, a Vancouver 
based media artist will be appearing at UBC to discuss this project, which will 
be exhibited at the Western Front, Vancouver in April, 2004. The presentation 
will include excerpts from three of the ‘untitled’ videotapes. 

In ‘untitled part 1: everything and nothing’, Salloum talks with Soha 
Bechara, the ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter who was detained for 10 years 
in the notorious El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre in South Lebanon. In 
‘untitled part 2: beauty and the east’, Salloum turns obliquely to the 
former Yugoslavia. In a kaleidoscope of interviews, refugees, migrants, asylum 
seekers, and residents, address the issues currently at stake in this region of 
displacement and redefinition. In ‘untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends..’
, Salloum uses a montage of orchids blooming and footage from the 1982 
massacre at Lebanon's Sabra and Shatilla refugee camp to provide an elegiac response 
to the Palestinian dispossession. 

Through-out the project Salloum addresses what counts as ‘history’ and the 
role memory plays in representation, knowing and relating to others at a 
distance, transnational movement and belonging through the legacies of capitalism 
and colonialism, all the while probing the relationship between art, politics, 
and theory. 

Jayce Salloum has been working in installation, photography, mixed media, 
video, and curating since 1975. His work takes place in a variety of contexts 
critically engaging itself in the representation and actualization of social 
manifestations and political realities. A media arts philosopher and cultural 
activist, Salloum lectures and exhibits throughout the world. Born in B.C., this 
will be the first time he has been invited to present his work at UBC.

We are also extremely pleased to welcome Laura U. Marks, Dena Wosk University 
Professor of Art and Cultural Studies in the School for Contemporary Arts at 
SFU, who will introduce Jayce Salloum and his work. Professor Marks is a 
leading scholar in the field of intercultural cinema, and author of The Skin of the 
Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment and the Senses (Duke, 2000) and Touch: 
Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (Minnesota, 2002).


This presentation is jointly sponsored by The Department of Geography, The 
Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, The Program in Canadian 
Studies and the International Canadian Studies Centre. 

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