Walid Raad – The Atlas Group (1989-2004)
Walid Raad, a contemporary media artist from Lebanon, created a fictional foundation called The Atlas Group that accommodated and contextualized his works, especially revolving around the Lebanese Civil wars (1975 – 1990), and overall explores ways representing war and history within the Middle East, casting doubt upon the authenticity of photographic and video documentation.
- Criticizes traditional documentation methods of history and the autonomy of artistic work, and how it can be manipulated.
- Produces artworks addressing societal, infrastructural devastation by war, later adding fictional aspects to them.
The Atlas Group is always presented by Raad – through public lectures and displays (film screenings, exhibitions displaying photography, audio, videos and document archives).
- https://www.theatlasgroup1989.org/
- https://www.worldcat.org/title/atlas-group-1989-2004-a-project-by-walid-raad/oclc/144223264
- Gives a performative and complex dimension through the methodologies presented through the works of Atlas Group.
- How Walid incorporates his personal, historical, cultural and political considerations with different audiences (ex. stating of different times in different places in accordance with the geographical location)
- Is the Atlas Group a way to approach how he curates and establishes his works? How he represents himself in the production of his work.
- Thinking in terms of cultural context, how does he present his work towards audiences unfamiliar to certain histories within the Middle East?
- Understanding of language, cultural norms,
- Although the presentation portrays fictional constructs, they evidently relate to the reality in contemporary Lebanon.
- How does he curate to look at this reality within the works objectively?
- Can this collection of “facts” still give us access to that reality? To the experiences people go through within a context?
- Subjective relationship with this reality – dimensions of experience
- Although its fiction – it deeply relates with the events Walid has experienced, and is mediated in a way by what these realities are displaying.
- How can he allow the viewers to see these intervened experiences within the fictional stories.
- Exploring the narrative and discourse within the context of The Atlas Group project
https://frieze.com/article/walid-raad
https://frieze.com/article/walid-raad
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