Salloum, Jayce
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Migration and Location: Transcultural Documentary Practice. the video installation as an active archive Bibliography
the video installation as an active archive (PDF) an essay by Jayce Salloum From: Migration and Location: Transcultural Documentary Practice from Wallflower Press: London, 2005 (N. American dist. Columbia University Press) Thanks to Jayce Salloum for permission to reproduce this text.
Migration and Location: Transcultural Documentary Practice. the video installation as an active archive Bibliography
Works: untitled part 1: everything and nothing. This is Not Beirut (1994), and Up to the South/Talaeen a Junuub (1993); an installation, Kan ya ma Kan/There was and there was not (1995 ); and a photograph series, (sites +) demarcations (1992-94).
Occupied Territories: Mapping the Transgressions of Cultural Terrain - an interview/essay with Jayce Salloum and Molly Hankwitz Interview
Interview with video artist Jayce Salloum by Molly Hankwitz about his practice addressing representation and resistance in the Middle East, especially Lebanon; Salloum discusses production and reception strategies, critique of documentary conventions, and creating audiences through screenings and workshops. He details projects and collaborations including Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal (1990, with Elia Suleiman), Up to the South (Talaeen a Junuub, 1993, with Walid Raad, 60 min), This is Not Beirut (1994, 49 min), Kan Ya Ma Kan installation (1995–2000), and untitled/everything and nothing (2001–ongoing) featuring Soha Bechara; he reports fieldwork, a Beirut media studio, 150+ hours of interviews and ~50 hours of archival material, and hundreds of screenings.