The Third Border Gallery in Dubai is currently exhibiting the latest installments of an ongoing project titled, “Lebanese Rocket Society: Part III, IV, V” from filmmakers Joana Hadji Thomas & Khalil Joreige. The first two parts of the project showed at the Sharjah Biennial at the end March, and this started the duo’s exploration of the heady days of Pan-Arabism.The Lebanese Rocket Society started at Haigazian University in Beirut in 1960 and finished only seven years later. In this age, however, a national identity was formed encircling the hour race; stamps commemorating the Cedar IV rocket were distributed in November to celebrate Lebanese Independence Day.Thomas and Joreige, who express interest in the deterioration of momentous sites over age, made a imitation of the rocket. Immediately they are revisiting the Rocket Project through a video and sound installation, a photographic series and a woven rug that looks like the immediately-well-known commemorative postage stamp. The exhibition will much feature photographs capturing a reenactment of the rocket through Beirut’s streets, so get ready to blast off!Glance at More…
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