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Beirut Art Residency (BAR) was a non-profit, artist-run interdisciplinary residency based in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Beirut Art Residency (BAR) was a non-profit, artist-run interdisciplinary residency based in Beirut, Lebanon.
Beirut Art Residency (BAR) was founded in 2015 by Amar A. Zahr and Nathalie Ackawi in Beirut, Lebanon. [1] The project offered a two-month residency program for 3-5 residents at a time. The artist-in-residence program aimed to stimulate creativity through interaction with local environments, artists, and cultural institutions, attempting to foster cross-cultural exchange between participants and Beirut’s artistic community. [2]
The program consisted of artists from various disciplines, such as visual arts, concept and theory, design, film & video, installation, music and sound, performance, photography and curatorial research. [3] It was in Gemmayzeh, which has numerous art galleries. [4] The residency aimed to build community through interaction and engagement and provide a platform for communication between the invited artists and the Lebanese art scene. [5]
A jury of local and international creatives selected the artists at BAR. The jury consisted of the following people:
The advisory board also included Ali Khadra, founder of Canvas Magazine, [9] and Middle Eastern art collector Khaled Jalanbo. [10]
During the second year of BAR, La Vitrine emerged as a response to the lack of public art in the city. La Vitrine is a four by two meter, high-ceilinged room with a glass door acting as the only separator between the art and the sidewalks of Beirut. Artists are invited on a bi-monthly basis to work on site-specific interventions responding mainly to social issues and public space. [30]