everything and nothing and other works from the ongoing video installation, “untitled,” 1999-2004

Description:

Untitled is a video project by Jayce Salloum that addresses social and political realities, representations, and enunciations, focusing on borders, nationalisms, and movements (shifts, transitions and interstitial space/time). 

The installation included seven videotapes, both projected on larger scales and on monitors. It featured untitled part 1: everything and nothing, the video from which the exhibition takes its title, an intimate conversation with Lebanese ex-resistance fighter Soha Bechara; untitled part 2: beauty and the east, a videotape made while traveling through the former Republic of Yugoslavia shortly after the NATO bombing; and untitled part 3: footnotes to the book of setbacks and untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends, a two tape component featuring footage of Palestinian refugees camps in Lebanon and interviews with two refugees living there since 1948. In this installation Salloum explored conditions of living between polarities of culture, geography, history, and ideology.

The exhibition was accompanied by a publication with essays by Trevor Boddy and Mireille Kassar.

An exhibition opening took place on Apr 17, 2004.