Omar Fakhoury’s ‘The Sea (Flag),’ his contribution to TAP’s 2017 Interventions at Dalieh, Raouche. (Photo courtesy of TAP)
BEIRUT — Ahmad Ghossein doesn’t have a favourite story from his time taking services (shared taxi), where conversation can provide colourful and varied mediations of this city’s version of banality. The artist and filmmaker’s conversations with older cabbies always start with a question. “Where were you on April 13, 1975?”“Then I’d leave him to talk,” says Ghossein. “He’d start with the Civil War and what he did at that time. He was young. He was working here and there. He went abroad. He came back, had his family, his kids.” Other experimental performances Fred Nevché in Beirut: From Karantina to Lou Reed, reviving memory through electronic poetry “It’s not new, this taxi experience,” Ghossein notes. “It’s been done in cinema and books. For me, there are two angles. After the [most recent] war, I find I feel better if I talk, tell...
BEIRUT — Ahmad Ghossein doesn’t have a favourite story from his time taking services (shared taxi), where conversation can provide colourful and varied mediations of this city’s version of banality. The artist and filmmaker’s conversations with older cabbies always start with a question. “Where were you on April 13, 1975?”“Then I’d leave him to talk,” says Ghossein. “He’d start with the Civil War and what he did at that time. He was young. He was working here and there. He went abroad. He came back, had his family, his kids.” Other experimental performances Fred Nevché in Beirut: From Karantina to Lou Reed, reviving memory through electronic poetry “It’s not new, this taxi experience,” Ghossein notes. “It’s been done in cinema and books. For me, there are two angles. After the [most recent] war,...