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print this pagewater is never still: ruminations on water politics & poetics in Lebanon
Heather M. O'Brien-Takahashi
Friday, March 20 - 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Atlanta 1
In collaboration with The Arab Image Foundation, this three-channel film installation explores how water has been used as a tool of social control; it reveals the multi-layered history of water privatization of in Beirut, Lebanon by tracing the source of the artist's water to her home in the Hamra neighborhood. The project re-imagines photographic and cinematic archives from the late 1800s - 1970s--across dams, rivers, waterfalls and the Mediterranean Sea--alongside contemporary footage of Lebanon's Chouf forest and Litani River. When water continues to love and destroy fortresses of space and spirit, how can we consider it in relation to borders and biopolitics?
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Heather O'Brien Takahashi
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