Rana Hamadeh

archives - artistic research - audiovisual - decolonization - digital technology - experimental - film - sound - gender - installation - interactive - media - network - performance - publication - writing

My operatic practice blurs the boundaries between art, theatre, and exhibition-making and tests out different models for collective thinking and study. My longstanding projects evolve in sequential chapters, manifesting as large-scale sound compositions with complex networked media designs and machine interactions, audiovisual installations, stage sets, performances, texts, and conversations. My work is dedicated to an ongoing scrutiny of the epistemologies and technologies of justice. To this end, I examine tropes of violence that find their genealogies in the linguistic, legal, and theatrical infrastructures that shape our understandings of justice.

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    • Standard_Deviation II

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 07-07-2022 t/m 03-10-2022
    • In collaboration with: Edith-Russ-Haus
    • Location: Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg
    • Hamadeh's solo exhibition Standard_Deviation II will occupy the entire Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art. It comprises a new time-based sonic, visual, and networked-media installation that extends over the building's two floors, turning the exhibition spaces into one living, breathing theatrical machine. This tentacular, cacophonous installation is the latest in Hamadeh's Standard_Deviation series, part of the longstanding discursive umbrella project The Destiny Project (2020–).
    • https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/467255/rana-hamadehstandard-deviation-ii/

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Media Art Grant from the Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ-Haus

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • AFAC grant for visual arts

    • 2017
      Scholarship

    • Günther-Peill-Stiftung Fellowship (2-year stipend / 2014-2016)

    • 2014
      Scholarship

    • Start stipend, Mondriaan Fund

    • 2013
      Scholarship

    • Start stipend, Mondriaan Fund

    • 2012
      Pricing

    • Dutch Prix de Rome

    • 2017
      Publication

    • Recite: Etude No. 1

    • 2022
    • Limited Edition
    • The Secession, Vienna - Rana Hamadeh / (text by Nathan Gray)
      Publication

    • Paranoia TV Catalog

    • 2020
    • text contribution in Exhibition Catalogue
    • steirischer herbst '20 -
      Publication

    • Prix ​​de Rome Catalogue

    • 2017
    • Exhibition Catalog
    • Mondrian Fund -
      Publication

    • How to Gather: Acting Relationships, Mapping Positions

    • 2017
    • artist contributions
    • Kunsthalle Wien/M HKA/Witte de With/VAC Foundation - ed. Defne Ayas, Bart de Baere, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Marie Egger
      Publication

    • The Sleepwalkers,

    • 2016
    • Publication
    • Strzelecki Books - Rana Hamadeh
      Publication

    • Notes On The Magic Of The State

    • 2013
    • artist contributions
    • The Lisson Gallery, London - ed. Beirut & Silvia Sgualdini
      Publication

    • move…ment

    • 2013
    • text contributions
    • Book Works, London and …ment, Berlin - ed. Federica Bueti
      Publication

    • In a Manner of Reading Design

    • 2012
    • artwork/poster contribution to book
    • Sternberg Press - ed. Katja Gretzinger
      Publication

    • A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law And Aesthetics

    • 2011
    • artist contribution to book
    • Sternberg Press - ed. Marit Paasche & Judy Radul
      Publication

    • Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists

    • 2010
    • artist contributions
    • Witte de With Publishers Posteditions Rotterdam -
      Publication

    • (Mis)reading Masquerade

    • 2010
    • text contributions
    • If I Cant Dance I Dont Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution,Revolver Publishing -
      Publication

    • GRAPHIS Nº 127 (issue #1)

    • 2009
    • Limited Edition
    • Dutch Art Institute - Rana Hamadeh
      Publication

    • Here as the Center of the World

    • 2009
    • Text contribution
    • Dutch Art Institute and Archis Publishers -