February 2011
Thea is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in the San Francisco area. Her projects include electronic music, sound art, performance, and video. Thea's work has been seen internationally at venues which include the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, the Center for Experimental Art and the Aram Kachaturyan Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, the Alternative Museum and Issue Project Room in New York City, Salon Bruit in Berlin, and the International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project in Amsterdam and Los Angeles.
Thea studied Arabic classical music in New York City, San Francisco, and in Cairo. She has an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State and an M.F.A. in Electronic Music from Mills College. In 2009, she was a lecturer in the Art Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
For more inforamtion about the artist, check: http://www.theafarhadian.com/
*photography by: Silvina Der Merguerditchian
Nidal El Khairy is an illustrator living in Amman, Jordan. After completing a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, he moved to Montreal, Canada where he spent four and half years working on political art in a context of local grass-roots social movements such as the Coalition against the Deportation of Palestinian refugees, No One Is Illegal and Solidarity Across Boarders. He also had solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto, Tokyo, Beirut, Amman and Caracas.
Kristine Khouri is a researcher, writer and photographer currently based in Beirut, Lebanon after spending a year in Amman (2007-2008) as a Fulbright fellow investigating visual art practice and production, specifically institutions and structures and identity production. She worked as a researcher for Walid Raad on his current project "Scratching on Things You Could Disavow: A History of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art," and with Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige on the the Haigazian Rocket Society project. With Rasha Salti, she cofounded "The History of Arab Modernities in the Visual Arts," a long term research project investigating the realm of production, exhibition, critical engagement and consumption of modern art in the region from the 1950s until the 1980s.
كريستين خوري باحثة وكاتبة ومصورة. تسكن حاليّا في بيروت، لبنان بعد أن أمضت سنة في عمان (٢٠٠٧-٢٠٠٨) للتحقيق في ممارسة الفن المرئي والإنتاج ، وتحديدا مؤسسات وهياكل الانتاج والهوية إثر حصولها على منحة فولبرايت. في بيروت، عملت باحثة مع وليد رعد في مشروعه الحالي عن تاريخ الفن العربي المعاصر كما عملت مع جوانا حاجي توما وخليل جريج في مشروع هايكازيان روكيت الإجتماعي. اشتركت مع رشا السلطي في تأسيس مشروع بحثي طويل الأمد بعنوان "تاريخ "الحداثة في العالم العربي في الفنون البصرية الذي تتمثل مهمته في التحقيق في مجال الإنتاج والعرض والمشاركة والاستهلاك الفعّال والنقدي للفن الحديث من خمسينيّات وحتى ثمانينيّات القرن الماضي في الشرق الأوسط.