Which Is the More Difficult in the Christian Era: to Resurrect or to Bury?
A meeting with Jalal Toufic
Andrzej Wróblewski, "Three Thombstones", collection of Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
The Museum of Modern Art invites you to a lecture by Jalal Toufic, in conjunction with the exhibition "Lest the Two Seas Meet".
What would be an apt sound track during the vampire’s deadly sucking of someone’s blood? How in the Christian era to resurrect the nameless beloved? Alternatively, how to bury him or her? Can a single scene confirm my answers or provide answers to the aforementioned three questions? Yes: a scene from Resnais/Duras’ "Hiroshima mon amour" (1959).
Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. He was most recently a participant in the Sharjah Biennial 11, the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Documenta 13, “Six Lines of Flight” (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), and “A History: Art, Architecture, and Design, from the 1980s Until Today” (Centre Pompidou). In 2011, he was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD; and in 2013–2014, he and Anton Vidokle, led Ashkal Alwan’s third edition of Home Workspace Program, based in Beirut. His books, many of which were published by Forthcoming Books, are available for download as PDF files at his website: www.jalaltoufic.com.
