Taking its cues from the exhibition Abeyance & Concurrence at ar/ge kunst, the conversation between Jessika Khazrik and Emanuele Guidi, will follow various strands of the artist research and practice across disciplines. 

             Abeyance & Concurrence extends from Blue Barrel Grove, the artist’s ongoing indisciplinary research project that began in 2013 with an investigation into a secret toxic waste trade conducted between Italy and Lebanon in 1987 and partially dumped in a quarry adjacent to the artist’s childhood home. Abeyance & Concurrence is a continuation of her meticulous inquiries while studying the complex ties between ecocide as armament and banking as statecraft, and necessarily reacting to the latest occurrences that impacted her home and life—the October 2019 Revolutions, her dispossession and unlawful arrest during Lebanon’s ongoing banking crisis, the August 2020 explosion and the Covid-19 syndemic*. 

             It urgently investigates the abeyant links between the political economy of sanitization and state hygiene and the regimes of invisibility and co-morbidity that follow the disregard and circulation of toxic waste and weaponry. The act of examining the body becomes an act of examining the state.

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[Jessika Khazrik (b. 1991, Beirut)
is an artist, technologist, electronic
music producer and researcher.]

Taking its cues from the exhibition Abeyance & Concurrence at ar/ge kunst, the conversation between Jessika Khazrik and Emanuele Guidi, will follow various strands of the artist research and practice across disciplines. 

             Abeyance & Concurrence extends from Blue Barrel Grove, the artist’s ongoing indisciplinary research project that began in 2013 with an investigation into a secret toxic waste trade conducted between Italy and Lebanon in 1987 and partially dumped in a quarry adjacent to the artist’s childhood home. Abeyance & Concurrence is a continuation of her meticulous inquiries while studying the complex ties between ecocide as armament and banking as statecraft, and necessarily reacting to the latest occurrences that impacted her home and life—the October 2019 Revolutions, her dispossession and unlawful arrest during Lebanon’s ongoing banking crisis, the August 2020 explosion and the Covid-19 syndemic*. 

             It urgently investigates the abeyant links between the political economy of sanitization and state hygiene and the regimes of invisibility and co-morbidity that follow the disregard and circulation of toxic waste and weaponry. The act of examining the body becomes an act of examining the state.

More information here.