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Oct 29, 2015 Egypt
Cairobserver's 5th Issue Launch: University

Cairobserver's 5th Issue Launch: University

By : Medrar TV مدرار تي في

Cairobserver`s 5th issue, titled `University` reflects on architectural education, reform of higher education in Egypt, the evolution of alternative education, the relationship between authorities and university faculty, the representation of university life in Arabic literature and cinema, the development of fine arts education in Egypt, and the relationship between campuses and their surrounding neighborhoods.

For the launch, editors Mohamed El Shahed and Shaimaa Ashour invited some of the writers to discuss their articles with the audience. They were joined by Nabil El Hady, Professor of Architecture at Cairo University; Farida Makar, researcher and lecturer in the history of education at the American University in Cairo; artist, writer and director Ahmed Shawky; and Abeer Rabei, Assistant professor in Political Science department at Cairo University.

The publication launch was followed by a photography exhibition titled "SURPLUS! Housing from the Periphery" curated by Shahed at the Townhouse Gallery. It presents 18 photographs by Anthony Hamboussi curated from “Cairo Ring Road,” a larger project spanning four years composed of 180 photographs of urban and architectural landscapes. The images, captured in peripheral locations, depict the immense scale of excessive residential building activities, high density and often-uninhabited dystopian vistas of housing in contemporary Cairo.

[This video was produced by Medrar TV and is featured in partnership with Jadaliyya Culture]
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Oct 21, 2015 Lebanon
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Shady El Noshokaty: Colony - Latitude

Colony - Latitude is the first in a fifteen-part art project by Shady El Noshokaty. It consists of a sculpture, drawings, diagrams and an animated video. Like his previous multi-faceted projects, it takes an intimate personal experience as an entry point to explore the relationship between minds, physical existence and the imagination. Latitude began from exploring the form of a skin discoloration that marks the artist’s hand. He conducted an extensive online research to locate 15 existing towns, cities and islands that match the contours of his birthmark. He then began collecting and ordering primary information about these sites, their history, language, arts and culture, their topography and geography as a basis for a possible imaginary colonization project. Latitude acts as a manifesto for this project, borrowing its methodology from archiving and topographical research.

Born in 1971 in Damietta, El Noshokaty is a visual artist based in Cairo. His projects have been featured in numerous museums and international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale, Venice; Hayward Gallery and Tate Modern, London; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; FACT, Liverpool and l`Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. El Noshokaty holds a BA (1994) and PhD (2007) in the philosophy of art education from the Faculty of Art Education at Helwan University. He has played a key role in the field of art education in Egypt. In addition to an associate professorship at the American University in Cairo, he organized ten editions of an annual non-profit Media Art and Creativity workshop and in 2010 established a pioneering non-profit dedicated to alternative media practices called ASCII foundation for contemporary art education.

[This video was produced by Medrar TV and is featured in partnership with Jadaliyya Culture]