A Live Declaration
Annabel Daou & Fawz Kabra in collaboration with Gabriel Cyr
Sunday, February 2, 2020
4:00 - 6:00pm
Annabel Daou in collaboration with Fawz Kabra and Gabriel Cyr, A Live Declaration, 2020
Let it all sink in, choose which side you’re on, step up, step away, begin the world over again. You're invited to lend your voice to Annabel Daou's work — this declaration, that protest — to weave in and out of words and entangle yourself in the polyphony of ideas, avowals and utterances that have been imprinted, erased and laced throughout the course of ongoing human events. Read what moves you, and as your voice travels out in the space, it will return to be heard anew, together with the voices of others, flowing out to the music of the streets. The shared reading of WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS will be recorded live and reassembled with musical interventions by DJ Gabriel Cyr. This reading and listening event is co-organized by Annabel Daou and Fawz Kabra, in conjunction with Daou's solo exhibition WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS.
annabel daou’s work takes place at the intersection of writing, speech, and nonverbal communication. Her paper-and-tape constructions, sound pieces, and performances explore the language of power and intimacy. Daou was born and raised in Beirut and lives in Brooklyn. She is currently a Pollock-Krasner resident at ISCP. Her book of fictional prose, The Autobiography of A, will be published in 2020. Daou is currently organizing The Lobby, a temporary public exhibition program. Daou’s work has been shown at The National Museum of Beirut; The Park Avenue Armory, New York; KW, Berlin; The Drawing Room, London; and The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Public collections include: Baltimore Museum of Art; The Menil Collection; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul; and The Yale University Art Gallery.
gabriel cyr is a music producer and DJ based in Paris. He makes music under the name Teleseen and has released on labels as diverse as Soundway, Goldmin Music, and 100% Silk.
fawz kabra is a curator and writer living in Brooklyn. She has organized exhibitions at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York; Bric Arts and Media House, Brooklyn; and Art Dubai. She was Co-Director of Global Art Forum 13, Dubai; and former Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Abu Dhabi Project, New York. Fawz edited the exhibition reader No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects (CCS / Barjeel / RAM 2017). Her writing and interviews appear in Ibraaz, Canvas, Ocula, and Art Papers.
