Founded in 1999 in New York, USA by Walid Raad (born in 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon)
The Atlas Group was founded by Walid Raad as an imaginary foundation to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. The Atlas Group documents are organized and preserved in The Atlas Group Archive. The archive contains authored, found, and newly produced files.
As a member of the Arab Image Foundation, Walid Raad has co-curated with Akram Zaatari the installation titled, "Mapping Sitting".
I = Installation
V = Video Screening
P = Performance/Lecture
Selected Exhibitions, Presentations, Screenings
2004:House of World Culture, Berlin. I/P
Palais de Tokyo, Paris. I/P
Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels. I/P
Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. I and premiere of new project
Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists (with Rovner, Amer, Kami, Sikander, Al-Ani, Hatoum), touring to Hood Museum Dartmouth College, Williams College)
University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum, Illinois. I
Sfeir Semmler, Hamburg. I
2003: Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR.
Hanover Kunstverein, Hanover. I
Mousonturm, Frankfurt. P
La Gallerie Noisy le Sec. I
Spiel Art, Munich. P
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. P
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. I
Global Priority, University of Massachussetts, Mass. I
Experimenta 03, Cardiff. P
Musee Niepce, Chalon sur Soane. P_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
Video Brasil, Sao Paulo. P/ I_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
Kampnagel, Hamburg. P
Belluard Theater Festival, Fribourg. P
50 Biennale di Venezia, Venezia. I/V
Disorientation, House of World Cultures, Berlin. P I_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. I_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
New York University, New York. P
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. P
Columbia University, New York. P
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam. I/P
Witness, Barbican Centre, London. V
In Transit, House of World Cultures, Berlin. P
2002: Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut. V/P
Documenta11, Kassel. I/P
Witte de With, Rotterdam. I
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels. I_Mapping Sitting (Arab Image Foundation)
MEMEAC, CUNY Graduate Center, New York. P
Watson Insitute for International Studies, Providence, Rhode Island. I
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ. I
Mousonturm, Frankfurt. P
Fondacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona. I/P
Migros Museum for Contemporary Arts, Zurich. V/P
Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. P
Negation and Consumption, Ocularis Cinema, Williamsburg, NY. V
What, A Tale of Images, Memling Museum, Brugge. I
Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs, New York. P
Atlanta Center for the Arts, Atlanta. I
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. P
Foundation Cartier, Paris. P
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam. V
2001: Dig It Digital Festival, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. V
Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York. V
Biennial of the Moving Image, Geneva. P
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. P
University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York. P
Fever Festival, Vancouver BC. V
Dumbo Short Film and Video Festival, NY. V
Wiener Festwochen, Vienna. G / P
Liepzig University, Liepzig. P
Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels. S
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. P
Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. P
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas. V
New York Video Festival, New York. V
Video EX, Zurich. V
Oberhausen Film Festival, Oberhausen. V
D-Lux Fim Festival, Sydney. V
Electronic Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck. V
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY. G
2000: American University of Beirut, Beirut. P
Notre Dame University, Beirut. P
Kaslik University, Kaslik. P
Ayloul Festival, Beirut. P
Kunst-Werke, Berlin. G / P
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. V
VideoEx, Zurich. V
Thaw-00, Iowa City, Iowa. V
European Festival of Mediterranean Cinema, Beirut. V
"Mediterranean Metaphors II", Borusan Arts and Culture Center, Istanbul. G
Selected Bibliography and Publications
Morgan Falconer, 'Witness', Frieze, May, p.88-89.
Deborah Root, 'Mapping the disaster', Prefix Photo, May, 30-41.
Lee Smith, 'Missing in Action', Artforum, February, 124-129.
Saul Anton, 'A Secret History', Frieze, January/February, 68-69.
Sarah Rogers, 'Forging History, Performing Memory', Parachute, October, 68-79.
Dina Al-Kassim, 'Crisis of the Unseen', Parachute, October, 146-163.
Alan Gilbert, 'Walid Raad', Bomb, Fall, 38-45.
Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, "Sweet Talk or Photographic Documents of Beirut",
Interactive: Archival Practices and Sites in the Contemporary Art Field (Cologne, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2002)
Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, "Already Been in a Lake of Fire", Framework(Detroit, Wayne State UP, 2002)
Walid Raad/ Souheil Bachar, "Civilizationally, We Do Not Dg Holes to Bury Ourselves",
Tamass Ed. Catherine David (Barcelona, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, 2002)
Awards / Selections 2000-
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival. 2002 (First Prize)
Vidarte 2002 Festival, Mexico City, Mexico. 2002 (First Prize)
Oneiras Film and Video Festival, Lisboa, Portugal. 2002 (First Prize)
Media Arts Awards, ZKM, Karlsrhue, Germany. 2002 (Special Prize)
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany. 2002
Black Maria Festival, 2002. (Juror Citation Award)
Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland, 2001. (First Prize)
Oberhausen Film and VideoFest, Oberhausen, Germany, 2001 (Rhineland Award)
San Francisco International Film Festival, SF, CA, USA, 2000 (Certificate of Merit)
5 th Biennial of Arab Cinemas, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, 2000 (Special Jury Prize)
2000 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA. 2000
VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland, 2000. (First Prize)
Media Productions 1993-
My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair (Raad, 2003, 5 minute Video)
The Atlas Group Project (Raad, 1999-, Multimedia Project)
Civilizationally, We Do Not Dig Holes To Bury Ourselves (Raad, 2002, 60 minute Mixed Media Performance)
Never That I Remember (Raad, 2001, Video Installation).
It Would Be Better If I Could Weep (Raad, 2000, Video Installation)
No, Illness Is Neither Here Nor There (Raad, 2000, Video Installation)
The Loudest Muttering Is Over (Raad, 2000, 75 minute Mixed Media Performance).
Sweet Talk or a Beirut Photographic Archive (Raad, 1992-, On-Going Documentary Photo Project).
Mapping Sitting (Raad/Zaatari, The Arab Image Foundation, 2001, Photo Installation).
Secrets in the Open Sea (Raad, 2000, Photo Installation).
Missing Lebanese Wars (Raad, 2000, Photo Installation).
Already Been in a Lake of Fire (Raad, 2000, Photo Installation).
Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English Version) (Raad., 2000, 18 minutes, Single Channel Video).
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs (Raad, 1996-1999, 18 minutes, Single Channel Video).
Miraculous Beginnings (in two parts) (Raad, 1998, 4 minutes, Single Channel Video).
Secrets in the Open Sea (Raad, 1997, 6 minutes, Single Channel Video).
The Beirut Al-Hadath Archive (Raad, 1996, Photo Installation).
Archive Politique (Raad, 1996, Photo Installation).
Missing Lebanese Wars (in three parts) (Raad, 1996, 4 minutes, Single Channel Video).
No, Illness Is Neither Here Nor There (Raad, 1995, 8 minutes, Single Channel Video).
Body Politic (Raad, 1994, Photo Installation).
Up to the South "Counterterror Series," (Raad/Salloum, 1993, 60 minutes, Single Channel Video).
Grants, Residencies, and Fellowships 1993-
Rockefeller Fellowship, 2003.
Production Grant, Caisse des Depots, Paris, France, 2003.
Nomination for Rockefeller Fellowship, 2001.
NYSCA Distribution Grant, New York, NY, 2000.
Nomination for Rockefeller Fellowship, 2000.
Jerome Foundation, Media Production Grant, New York, NY, 1999.
Scholar Incentive Award, Queens College, CUNY, NY. 1999.
Massachusetts Media Fellowship, Boston Film Video Foundation, Boston, MA, 1999.
BFVF Production Grant, Boston Film Video Foundation, Boston, MA, 1999.
PSC CUNY, CUNY, NYC, NY, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Mellon Fellowship, AUB, Lebanon, 1999-2000.
Hampshire College - MacArthur Development Grant (with Joan Braderman and Jackie Hayden) 1998.
Hampshire College Faculty Development Grant - MacArthur, 1997.
Nomination for Rockefeller Fellowship, 1995.
Upstate Media Regrant, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1995.
Experimental Television Center Residency, Newark Valley, NY, 1995.
Rush Rhees Doctoral Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1994-95.
Upstate Media Regrant, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1993.
Publications 1994-
Mapping Sitting (Zaatari, Maasri, Bassil eds. With the collaboration of Walid Raad, The Arab Image Foundation,
(Mind the Gap Publications: Beirut [Lebanon]), 2002.
"Already Been in a Lake of Fire," Framework Forthcoming, Fall 2003.
"On Gibran," Al Adab (Winter 2001).
"Already Been in a Lake of Fire," Springerin (Winter, 2001)
"No, Illness Is Neither Here Nor There," Felix (Spring 2000).
"Missing Lebanese Wars," Public Culture (Spring 1999).
"The Beirut Al-Hadath Archive." ReThinking Marxism . (Fall 1999).
"Miraculous Beginnings," Public . 16 (1997): 44-53.
"Re-Imagining the Orient: Introduction" Public . Eds. Walid Raad and Deborah Root. 16 (1997): 2-10.
"Bayrut Ya Beyrouth." Third Text . 36 (Autumn 1996): 63-82.
"On Jayce Salloum's There Was and There Was Not ." Kan Ya Makan Exhibit Catalog, Optica Center for
Contemporary Art, October 1996, Montreal, Canada.
"Beirut, à la Folie." L'Esprit Createur . Ed. Ali Behdad. 34.2 (1994): 31-41.
"Up to the South ... excerpts." Documents . 4 (1994): 158-161.
Professional Employment
Cooper Union, New York
Assistant Professor of Art, School of Art, 2002-
Queens College - CUNY
Assistant professor, Dept. of Media Studies, 1998-2002
Hampshire College
Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, Cultural Studies and Arts, 1995-1998.
University of Rochester
Instructor, Dept. of Art and Art History, University of Rochester, 1991-1995.
Instructor, Dept. of Film Studies, University of Rochester, 1994- 1995.
Education
University of Rochester, Ph.D. in Cultural and Visual Studies. Rochester, NY, 1996
University of Rochester, MA in Cultural and Visual Studies. Rochester, NY, 1993.
Rochester Institute of Technology, Undergraduate Education, Fine Arts (Photography). Rochester, NY. 1985-1989.
Boston University, 1984 - 85.
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