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Slought Foundation is pleased to announce INCIDENCE, a live concert with Hassan Khan on September 17, 2010 from 7-9pm, presented in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. INCIDENCE is a seamless, continuous stream of improvisational pieces and music compositions by Khan accompanied by video sequences specially shot by the artist. Khan is one of the artists featured in the exhibition Live Cinema/In the Round: Contemporary Art from the East Mediterranean, on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from September 11, 2010 to February 6, 2010.
The exhibition In the Round: Contemporary Art from the East Mediterranean presents video and sculptural work by six contemporary artists from the eastern Mediterranean—Ziad Antar, Inci Eviner, Gülsün Karamustafa, Hassan Khan, Maha Maamoun, and Christodoulos Panayiotou—all of whom in different ways respond to cinema, especially to the "live" reference used in the Live Cinema series title. In the Round explores a broader understanding of the development of cinema, one that's stems from the live performance of theatre to the suspension of reality of cinematic presentation and the ways of appropriating cinematically inspired practices within contemporary art. For more information on the exhibition, as well as associated programs at the University of Delaware on September 18th, please visit philamuseum.org
Hassan Khan was born in 1975 in London and is currently based in Cairo. He has performed as a musician in various international venues, including Melkweg, Amsterdam, SESC São Paulo, São Paulo and HAU, Berlin. Selected solo exhibitions include I am a hero/you are a hero, Gezira Art Center, Cairo (1999); The Hidden Location, A Space Gallery, Toronto (2005); KOMPRESSOR, Gasworks, London (2006), Le Plateau, Paris (2007) and Evidence of Evidence, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen (2010). Khan has also participated in numerous biennales including: the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2003); Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2006); Heterotopias, First Contemporary Art Biennale of Thessaloniki, Greece (2007); the 7th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2008); as well as The Pantagruel Syndrome, 1st Turin Triennale (2005) and the Yokohama Triennale (2008). Khan’s work will be included in Manifesta 8 held in 2010 in Spain.
This program has been organized by The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Department of Modern and Contemporary as part of their Live Cinema series, working with Istanbul-based guest curator November Paynter.
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