Products tagged with 'creativity'

The first book of its kind in Lebanon, Mute Movements, documents the emergence of a performance art scene in Lebanon. The book illustrates the collective work of students and artists under the direction of Cornelia Krafft, former assistant professor at AUB. Captured in high-quality photographs and narrated through the performers' own words, Mute Movements invites the reader to embark on an inspirational journey through modern-day Lebanon as seen through the eyes of these young artists striving to confront their internal and external challenges on the personal, national, and regional levels. Their “mute" performances, situated in provocative locations, demanded attention and triggered debate. Played out in unorthodox settings – abandoned buildings, war ruins, along the sea-shore, in city streets and run-down cinemas – these performances required almost as much of the spectators as of the players with their fundamental questioning of issues of collective relevance: social responsibility, personal and regional identity, cultural heritage, censorship, conflict, freedom, and repression. Across the pages of the book, each performance unfolds in documentary-like fashion. The underlying theme, the evolution of performance art in Lebanon across five fertile years of artistic endeavor, lays the groundwork for years to come. While the focus is Lebanon and its youth, the bigger picture is a work in progress which is applicable far beyond the borders of one small country, making Mute Movements a valuable as well as highly enjoyable reference work. ​The overall minimalistic aesthetic and design of the book envelopes an extraordinary sample of strong artistic encouragement through contemporary education in the fields of performance, set design, and visual arts; the result is a document of international importance.

This book showcases the work of twenty featured artists from the first group exhibition of contemporary ceramists in Lebanon, and thus is the first of its kind. Innovation in fine arts at AUB goes back at least to 1929, when the University hosted first solo exhibition in Lebanon with the work of Lebanese artist Mustafa Farroukh. ​This is a publication of the Project Steering Committee for an Arts Center at AUB.

​This book represents a dialogue between image and word, and experience and thought. In this sequence of twenty pairs of images and texts spanning forty years of the artist's personal growth, it offers readers a rare view of the nature of expression. The intuitive choice of couplets and the way they flow reveal singular aspects of the creative process. The book invites readers on a journey aimed at understanding art through the transformative shift that comes from combining experience and thought, looking within while also observing from without.​

The Mahmoud Kahil Award is an award program under the Rada and Mutaz Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies at the American University of Beirut that aims to promote comics, editorial cartoons, and illustrations in the Arab world through the recognition of the rich talent and creative achievement of comics artists, cartoonists, and illustrators in the region. This program was established in 2014 upon the initiative of Mr. Mu’taz Sawwaf to honor and perpetuate the legacy of the late Mahmoud Kahil, one of the leading cartoonists and caricaturists of the Arab world, and a former AUB graduate.​​

"بدأت فكرة الرحلة من نقطة انطلاق شخصيّة أساسها استعادة تجربة نزهة في القطار القديم الذي كان ينطلق من محطّة الحجاز في وسط دمشق الى محطّته النهائيّة في "وادي سرغايا" و"عين حور" بعد مدينة "الزبداني" جنوب شرق العاصمة السوريّة.وفي اطار مقرّر تعليمي تقدّمت به عن الشريط المصوّر البديل، في قسم الهندسة والتصميم لدى الجامعة الأميركيّة في بيروت، كان يمكن لهذه الرحلة أن تقدّم مجموعة تجارب فرديّة للطلّاب المشاركين فيها ذهنيّاّ وجسديّاً، وتغني النتاج الغرافيكي الذي يصدر عنها: رحلة تفتح مساحات النقاشات لما تتضمّنه من سرد قصصيّ لوقائع مُعاشة بكل التفاصيل والأحاسيس: اغناء التجربة البصريّة أمام المدى الريفي ومناظره، اكتشاف القطار القديم بمقطوراته ومقاعده الخشبيّة وزخرفاته الشعبيّة، رائحة الأشجار وعبق دخانه، تنوّع محطّاته وسككه، والأهمّ معايشة أهله ورواياتهم." ​

The Mahmoud Kahil Award is an award program under the Mu'taz & Rada Sawwaf Arabic Comics Initiative at the American University of Beirut that aims to promote comics, editorial cartoons, and illustrations in the Arab world through the recognition of the rich talent and creative achievement of comics artists, cartoonists, and illustrators in the region. This program was established in 2014 upon the initiative of Mr. Mu’taz Sawwaf to honor and perpetuate the legacy of the late Mahmoud Kahil, one of the leading cartoonists and caricaturists of the Arab world, and a former AUB graduate.​​ يهدف برنامج جائزة محمود كحيل إلى تعزيز الشرائط المصورة والكاريكاتور السياسي والرسوم التعبيرية في العالم العربي من خلال إبراز مواهب وإنجازات رسامي الشرائط المصورة والكاريكاتور والرسامين في المنطقة. تم إنشاء برنامج الجائزة في العام 2014، تحت مبادرة معتز ورادا الصواف للشرائط المصورة العربية في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت، لتكريم وتخليد تراث الراحل محمود كحيل الذي كان واحداً من أبرز رسامي الكاريكاتور في العالم العربي، وكان خرجاً من الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت. وتطلق دعوة مفتوحة سنوياً لترشيح أعمال في مختلف الفئات المدرجة هنا للجائزة. ويتم تقييم الأعمال المرشحة والتصويت عليها من قبل لجنة حكم مختارة يعلن عنها خلال مؤتمر صحافي لإطلاق الجائزة، ويتم الإعلان عن الفائزين وتكريمهم في حفل توزيع الجوائز السنوي.