Vision Forum in Beirut with 98weeks and Assabil Libraries

the VOLUME project, September 11–20, 2014, Beirut.

Have libraries become obsolete in the digital age? Can we conceive public libraries as something other than a collection of books? When does a library begin and end?

Started as a long-term research project in November 2013, the VOLUME project investigates the potential of libraries as sites for artistic creation and production of knowledge, as well as for the formation of critique and dialogue. For nine days, international and local artists, theorists, curators and librarians will engage the public library as a space and a concept, through a series of performances, ad-hoc interventions, talks, literary writings and installations. Events will take place at 98weeks Project Space, Assabil Libraries, and in public spaces around Beirut.

Vision Forum wird Deutsch werden (slightly at least)

 All the Worlds that you Word.

Reading, listening and speaking sessions by artists Mounira Al Solh and Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
All the Worlds that You Word... is the closing act of Quantum Fluctuations in a Synecdochic Universe -  at ZKM Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe, January 18, 2014

As a response to the ZKM exhibition Global Activism, OuUnPo has invited Mounira Al Solh (also part of the VF project Volume) and Lawrence Abu Hamdan to enact and perform two ongoing research projects that poke and investigate the liaisons between language and power. More info here.