WALID RAAD
Associate Professor

Video stills from "Hostage," color, 17 min., 2001; distributed by Video Databank.
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Walid Raad is a media artist whose works to date include video, photography and literary essays. All, in one way or another, deal with the following concerns: the contemporary history of Lebanon with particular emphasis on the wars in Lebanon between 1975 to 1991; the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions; and the ways film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence.

Raad's video works include Up to the South (Salloum/Raad, 60 min., 1993), a collection of video shorts titled The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs (Raad, 18 min., 1996-1999), and Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (Raad/Bachar), 18 min., 2000). Mixed-media projects include The Atlas Group: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive (1999 to the present), The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive (2001 to the present), and My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair (2004). Raad's media works have been shown at Documenta 11 (Kassel), The Venice Biennale (Venice), The Whitney Biennial (New York), The Ayloul Festival (Beirut, Lebanon) and numerous other festivals in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. He is a member of the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut/New York ~ www.fai.org.lb) and a founding member of The Atlas Group (Beirut/New York ~ www.theatlasgroup.org). Raad is represented by The Anthony Reynolds Gallery in London and by the Sfeir Semler Gallery in Hamburg.

Walid Raad joined the full-time faculty at Cooper Union in 2002. In addition to teaching film, video and photography, Raad teaches an interdisciplinary class involving photography, film/video and installation.

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