Jalal Toufic Resume - Kadir Has Üniversitesi

Curated Film Programs:
— “Radical Closure: A Jalal Toufic Program”: screening of Bunuel’s The Exterminating Angel,
Lynch’s Lost Highway, and Kubrick’s The Shining, followed, for each film, by a short lecture
by Jalal Toufic, Metro Club, a collaboration between Ashkal Alwan and Metropolis Art
Cinema, Metropolis Art Cinema, Beirut, 25, 27, and 29 June 2007.
— Difference and Repetition (Dedicated to Gilles Deleuze): Lina Saneh’s, I Had a Dream, Mom… and
Jalal Toufic’s The Lamentations Series: the Ninth Night and Day, Venice Biennale, Cypriot
Pavilion, 8 June 2007.
— Carte blanche, “Radical Closure: Five Films,” part of Constant’s Jonctions, Brussels, 3/27-29,
1998.
— Curator of the Film Series at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California
at Berkeley, Spring 1995 and Fall 1996.
Appearances in Others’ Videos:
— 10-minute intervention in Lamia Joriege’s Objects of War no. 2 (2003), premiered at Musée
Nicéphore Niépce (Ville de Chalon-sur-Saône), France.
Grants:
— Commissioning grant for the creation of new work by a contemporary artist from the Islamic
World, the Islamic World Arts Initiative, supported by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic
Art and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2004-2005.
— 1995-1996 Artists’ Project Grant administered by New Langton Arts, with funding from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Presenting and Commissioning Program, The
Rockefeller Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the San Francisco
Publicity and Advertising Fund’s Hotel Tax/Grants for the Arts, and The William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation; and a grant from the Institute for Modern Communication at
Northwestern University: to produce ‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled In My Veins, a two-channel video
partly shot in Nabatiyya in South Lebanon and revolving around the Shi’ite ritual ‘Âshûrâ’.
Reprints:
— “Dead Air” from Over-Sensitivity, in Public 16 (Toronto, Canada, 1998), pp. 55-63.
— One-page from Over-Sensitivity, in Ribot #5, 1997.
Other Texts:
— “Letter of Recommendation by Jalal Toufic,” The Long Overdue Guide to Lebanon’s Restaurants,
ed. Sahar Omran (Beirut, Lebanon, 2006), pp. 51-61.