Roy Dib's guest appearances

Roy Dib

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Artists In Presidents: Transmissions to Power

Cara Levine

Celeste Headlee

Noam Chomsky

Ilhan Omar

RICHIE RESEDA

Benny Gantz

Madame Gandhi

Qasem Soleimani

Ruth Wilson

Asher Hartman

Okwui Okpokwasili

Ramesh Srinivasan

Norman Finkelstein

Nadine Labaki

Noura Erakat

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“I’m scared. I’m fragile, weak, and scared.”Roy Dib smokes, checks Instagram, and looks out onto the Mediterranean while delivering a pensive monologue on love, sex, nationhood, and migration. Between drags, Dib pries apart the norms that ostensibly unite societies (marriage, the nation-state, the pursuit of happiness), forging a critique embedded in his own entanglements and complicities.“Artists-in-Presidents” is initiated by Constance Hockaday, curated by Christine Shaw, and commissioned by The Blackwood (University of Toronto Mississauga). Podcast production by Vocal Fry.Transmissions are released every Friday from August 6–December 17, 2021. To view the portrait gallery, access ASL videos and transcripts, and for additional information about the project, visit www.artistsinpresidents.com and www.blackwoodgallery.ca.Roy Dib (born in 1983) is an artist and filmmaker based in Beirut. On both formal and conceptual levels, Roy Dib challenges common notions of space and boundary, weaving together archival material, scripted text and hypothetical circumstances to chronicle the political narratives of our day.His work has been presented at Studio la Città (2021), Loop Barcelona (2020), Galerie Tanit (2018), MAXXI Museum (2017), Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017), ALFILM (2017), JCC (2016), Forum Expanded – 64th and 65th Berlinale, Exposure 2015 – Beirut Art Center, Uppsala International Short Film Festival (2014), Queer Lisboa (2014), Images Festival (2016) - Toronto, Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil (2013, 2015 and 2017), Ashkal Alwan (2014), and Video Works (2011–2014).Song credit: Cesária Évora, "Sodade," 1992.Photo: Aly Saab

“I’m scared. I’m fragile, weak, and scared.” Roy Dib smokes, checks Instagram, and looks out onto the Mediterranean while delivering a pensive monologue on love, sex, nationhood, and migration. Between drags, Dib pries apart the norms that ostensibly unite societies (marriage, the nation-state, the pursuit of happiness), forging a critique embedded in his own entanglements and complicities. “Artists-in-Presidents” is initiated by Constance Hockaday, curated by Christine Shaw, and commissioned by The Blackwood (University of Toronto Mississauga). Podcast production by Vocal Fry. Transmissions are released every Friday from August 6–December 17, 2021. To view the portrait gallery, access ASL videos and transcripts, and for additional information about the project, visit <a href="http://www.artistsinpresidents.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.artistsinpresidents.com</a> and <a href="http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.blackwoodgallery.ca</a>. Roy Dib (born in 1983) is an artist and filmmaker based in Beirut. On both formal and conceptual levels, Roy Dib challenges common notions of space and boundary, weaving together archival material, scripted text and hypothetical circumstances to chronicle the political narratives of our day. His work has been presented at Studio la Città (2021), Loop Barcelona (2020), Galerie Tanit (2018), MAXXI Museum (2017), Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017), ALFILM (2017), JCC (2016), Forum Expanded – 64th and 65th Berlinale, Exposure 2015 – Beirut Art Center, Uppsala International Short Film Festival (2014), Queer Lisboa (2014), Images Festival (2016) - Toronto, Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil (2013, 2015 and 2017), Ashkal Alwan (2014), and Video Works (2011–2014). Song credit: Cesária Évora, "Sodade," 1992. Photo: Aly Saab

Transmission: Roy Dib

Artists Tania El Khoury and Roy Dib in conversation focusing on Dib's practice, cultural policy in Lebanon, the growing censorship against Lebanese artists and activists, and the recent case of Mashrou' Leila.

Artists Tania El Khoury and Roy Dib in conversation focusing on Dib's practice, cultural policy in Lebanon, the growing censorship against Lebanese artists and activists, and the recent case of Mashrou' Leila.

Artist Roy Dib in Conversation about Art and Censorship in Lebanon