May 15, 2013
Words and Places: Etel Adnan, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, 2013 [With Chris Marker, Junkopia, 1981 and several paintings and leporellos by Adnan] Tara McDowell writes about the exhibition for Artforum here.

Words and Places: Etel Adnan, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, 2013 [With Chris Marker, Junkopia, 1981 and several paintings and leporellos by Adnan]

Tara McDowell writes about the exhibition for Artforum here.

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Filed under: artforum etel adnan chris marker art exhibition CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts grupa o.k. 
May 8, 2013
Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, still, 1983. Screening May 15 at the Wattis Institute, San Francisco, in conjunction with our students’ exhibition Words and Places: Etel Adnan.

Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, still, 1983. Screening May 15 at the Wattis Institute, San Francisco, in conjunction with our students’ exhibition Words and Places: Etel Adnan.

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(Notes: 37)
  
Filed under: chris marker sans soleil film wattis etel adnan cca grupa o.k. 
April 27, 2013

supersuperette:

1 list of Works in the Etel Adnan Exhibition : my favorite being 2 Funeral March for the First Cosmonaut, or Five Senses for One Death : (water-color, accordion binded poems with unreadable markings) : 3-4 from Funeral March.. : 5 from Five Senses for One Death

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(Notes: 18)
  
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April 22, 2013
Simone Fattal’s film Autoportrait, 1971/2012, screens this Thursday, April 25 at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco, in conjunction with Words and Places: Etel Adnan. Read Kaelen Wilson-Goldie’s take on the film for Artforum here, and see a preview here. 

Simone Fattal’s film Autoportrait, 1971/2012, screens this Thursday, April 25 at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco, in conjunction with Words and Places: Etel Adnan. Read Kaelen Wilson-Goldie’s take on the film for Artforum here, and see a preview here. 

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Filed under: simone fattal etel adnan cca wattis cinema art grupa o.k. lebanon beirut 
April 18, 2013

supersuperette:

last night at Etel Adnan’s opening exhibition Words and Places curated by several CCA students : recorded audio of a collective reading of a poem from The Arab Apocalypse by Etel with Norma Cole leading on the mic : Norma suggested a group reading to her students, which opened up an event that - in several ways - “decentered” the reading : i.e. decentered Norma’s position as a reader, the audience as audience and the individuals who attempted to involve themselves as individual readers : in the audio you can hear so much fragmentation of this process of decentralization : some voices reaching above or below, or in front of or behind others : at other times a centrality of harmony is plateaued and then decomposes back into a type of imminent failure

Incredible moment — and how great that there is a record of it. 

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(Notes: 17)
  
Filed under: etel adnan cca wattis exhibition poetry art grupa o.k. norma cole 
April 17, 2013
lormiguel: Etel Adnan, Al-Halllaj, Qasaid, 2008. Watercolour and ink on Japanese book, 27 x 630 cm. © Etel Adnan. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris. Dedicated to  grupa o.k. “During this time Adnan discovered the format of the leporello, an accordion-folded book, where her painting and poetry found a compelling hybrid form. In one of the earliest of these leporellos, Adnan copied poems written in Arabic, a language that she spoke, but had never learned to read or write (having grown up in Lebanon under French colonial influence). As she transcribed the Arabic characters, without quite knowing what she was writing, she felt as if she were drawing the poems, and that they could then be understood as images in their own right. Otherwise tied to the word, and therefore to a world of signified meaning, for Adnan this handwritten language began to verge instead on drawn abstraction.” — Antonia Marsh, in the gallery guide and publication for Words and Places: Etel Adnan, opening tonight, April 17, 2013.

lormiguel:

Etel Adnan, Al-Halllaj, Qasaid, 2008. Watercolour and ink on Japanese book, 27 x 630 cm. © Etel Adnan. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

Dedicated to  grupa o.k.

“During this time Adnan discovered the format of the leporello, an accordion-folded book, where her painting and poetry found a compelling hybrid form. In one of the earliest of these leporellos, Adnan copied poems written in Arabic, a language that she spoke, but had never learned to read or write (having grown up in Lebanon under French colonial influence). As she transcribed the Arabic characters, without quite knowing what she was writing, she felt as if she were drawing the poems, and that they could then be understood as images in their own right. Otherwise tied to the word, and therefore to a world of signified meaning, for Adnan this handwritten language began to verge instead on drawn abstraction.”

— Antonia Marsh, in the gallery guide and publication for Words and Places: Etel Adnan, opening tonight, April 17, 2013.

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(Notes: 39)
  
Filed under: etel adnan drawing arabic poetry grupa o.k. wattis cca antonia marsh 
April 16, 2013
Programming that accompanies the exhibition Words and Places: Etel Adnan, which opens at the Wattis Institute April 17, 2013.

Programming that accompanies the exhibition Words and Places: Etel Adnan, which opens at the Wattis Institute April 17, 2013.

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(Notes: 6)
  
Filed under: Etel Adnan exhibition graduate exhibitions art 
April 15, 2013
Etel Adnan, Funeral March for the First Cosmonaut, 1968 — detail of leporello with ink and watercolor. Words and Places: Etel Adnan opens Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. More information here.

Etel Adnan, Funeral March for the First Cosmonaut, 1968 — detail of leporello with ink and watercolor. Words and Places: Etel Adnan opens Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. More information here.

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Filed under: etel adnan wattis art exhibition poetry grupa o.k. cca 
April 12, 2013
Etel Adnan, folding book, 1970s [photograph by Jesi Khadivi] Words and Places: Etel Adnan opens Wednesday, April 17, at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco, and includes dozens of works by the artist and poet, spanning six decades and including the folding book seen above. Of course, having had a hand in advising the exhibition, we’re biased, but we think the show is rather astonishing, a corrective act, and we hope people will see it. The exhibition also includes works by Chris Marker, Rabih Mroué and Otolith Group, and a number of events, including presentations and screenings of Autoportrait by Simone Fattal, and, at the Kadist, The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni by Rania Stephan.

Etel Adnan, folding book, 1970s [photograph by Jesi Khadivi]

Words and Places: Etel Adnan opens Wednesday, April 17, at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco, and includes dozens of works by the artist and poet, spanning six decades and including the folding book seen above. Of course, having had a hand in advising the exhibition, we’re biased, but we think the show is rather astonishing, a corrective act, and we hope people will see it.

The exhibition also includes works by Chris Marker, Rabih Mroué and Otolith Group, and a number of events, including presentations and screenings of Autoportrait by Simone Fattal, and, at the Kadist, The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni by Rania Stephan.

1:46pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWx5WwiXMaF0
(Notes: 25)
  
Filed under: etel adnan art wattis institute cca exhibition grupa o.k. otolith group book art 
March 29, 2013
Etel Adnan, detail from the leporello Five Senses for One Death, 1971 Words and Places: Etel Adnan, curated by the graduate program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts, and advised by Ana Paula Cohen and us, opens at the Wattis Institute in a couple weeks. The exhibition also features films by the Otolith Group, Chris Marker and Rabih Mroué. We have a real good feeling about this one…

Etel Adnan, detail from the leporello Five Senses for One Death, 1971

Words and Places: Etel Adnan, curated by the graduate program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts, and advised by Ana Paula Cohen and us, opens at the Wattis Institute in a couple weeks. The exhibition also features films by the Otolith Group, Chris Marker and Rabih Mroué. We have a real good feeling about this one…

1:32pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZWx5WwhQk2Y9
(Notes: 23)
  
Filed under: etel adnan exhibition cca otolith group art chris marker rabih mroué grupa o.k. 
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