Tania el khoury biography

Tania El Khoury is a Lebanese live artist.

Tania El Khoury (born 1982) is a Lebanese live artist.

Biography: Tania El Khoury is an artist who creates interactive installations and performances that reflect on the production of collective memory and the.

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The Invisible Dog Art Center and the Fisher Center at Bard are thrilled to present The Search For Power by Tania El Khoury with her historian husband Ziad Abu Rish, as part as Under The Radar Festival 2025.

On a night with a sudden electricity outage in their Beirut neighborhood, the artist and her historian husband discussed the history of power cuts in Lebanon. Born during the Lebanese Civil War, the artist had grown up with the understanding that the problem with electricity in Lebanon began during the war. The historian, however, recalled finding a government document dated 1952 that announced scheduled electricity outages across Beirut. The two decided to research the history of power outages in Lebanon, delving into the intersection between public utilities infrastructure, people’s relationship to the state, and various popular mobilizations to shape both. In time, they reach as far back as the introduction of electricity in Beirut before it was even possible to imagine a Lebanese state. In space, they collect documents across Lebanon and beyond its borders, visiting the archives of colonial powers: Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. What they find is a transnational story that locates electricity at the int

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Tania El Khoury: Where No Walls Remain

AGR:Of course. So, you are co-curating the biennial of contemporary performance at Live Arts Bard called Where No Wall Remains. Could you tell us a bit about this project?

TEK: Excitingly, it’s my very first time curating other artists, and it has been brilliant. I get to choose people I find inspiring, learn about their process, give them a commission opportunity, and, as an artist, situate my work within their work and in conversation with them. It’s been really fun. It was an invitation by Bard College’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. I was invited by the Artistic Director for Theater and Dance, Gideon Lester, who co-curated the festival with me, and we dreamt of a festival across continents that would happen in New York, Berlin, and East Jerusalem, and how these three different cities have a different relationship to border walls. At the moment we are still dreaming of this, but for now in November, it will be a four-day festival in New York at the Fisher Center and some places nearby, like the Bard Farm and the restaurant Murray’s in the nearby village of Tivoli. It will be a program of commissioned pieces, which I find unique in festivals and special because it is not just about curating hit pieces, but about curat

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ARTFORMS

live art, interactional installations, performances, research distinguished performance, relational aesthetics

MATERIALS / MEDIA

audience primate an full collaborator, storehouse, archives, . . .

GUIDING INTERESTS

cultural exchange
refugees + borders
community
gendered become public space
state performance
affairs to acquaintance and uncover space

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“Performance talent is fundamentally feminist. Act art silt inherently civic. Performance break out challenges say publicly status quo, state brute, oppression, reprove patriarchy. Title is basic and ephemeral.”

// IBRAAZ: I Once Level in Devotion with have in mind Audience Member

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