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Akram Zaatari's 8/22/13 Two Point Perspective: Akram Zaatari’s “Letter to a Refusing Pilot” | Art21 Blog HOME GUEST BLOG EDUCATION VIDEO current theme: networks search BLOGGER-IN-RESIDENCE: Noah Simblist, Curator, Writer, and Professor, Dallas, TX Two Point Perspective: Akram Zaatari’s Jʼaime 68 “Letter to a Refusing Pilot” Tweet 6 subscribe July 23rd, 2013 by Noah Simblist Art21 Blog feed Video feed Education feed Guest Blog feed featured film communicate Barry McGee: Retrospective pages About Art21 new york close up About the Art21 Blog Current Contributors art21 online on Art21.org Akram Zaatari. “Letter to a Refusing Pilot (still),” 2013. Film and video installation. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut. on Blip.tv on Del.icio.us Stories can have a life of their own. They are told, heard, told again, written down, archived, Jacolby Satterwhite Dances with recorded, and gathered together with supporting documents, photographs or film. A story, His Self on Facebook especially in the context of war, can fragment, multiply, and turn into a series of contractions. on Flickr The veracity of a story’s truth becomes increasingly elusive when one has to choose between teaching with on iTunes an individual’s partial understanding of a situation and the unreliable grand narratives told to contemporary art on PBS us by power brokers who are first and foremost driven by ideology. This condition haunts on Twitter many of the artworks that have emerged in Beirut these past twenty years. on YouTube blogroll 16 Miles of String 2 Buildings 1 Blog In and out of the classroom Art Fag City Art Whirled blogger-in-residence Artlog ArtsBeat Bad at Sports BAM 150 BOMBlog C-Monster Dorothy Santos, Visual and Creative Capital – The Lab Critical Studies Geek, San Culture Monster Francisco, CA Ed Winkleman Akram Zaatari. “Letter to a Refusing Pilot (still),” 2013. Film and video installation. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Eyeteeth Gallery Beirut. categories Henry Art Gallery: Hankblog Here’s one story: In 1982, Israel invaded and occupied southern Lebanon, inserting yet > Columns (1439) Hrag Vartanian another violent complication into an already protracted civil war. Part of this incursion included > 5 Questions for Hyperallergic fighter jets sent to bomb a set of targets. One of these planes was sent near Ain El-Helweh, a Contemporary Practice (21) IMA Blog Palestinian refugee camp just south of the port town Saida. As the plane approached the > Alchemy of Inspiration (9) LACMA: Unframed target, the pilot recognized the building as a school that he had attended as a child. He Look Into My Owl swerved away and headed toward the sea where he dropped three bombs into the water. A > Art 2.1: Creating on the few hours later another pilot destroyed the school. This story soon swirled around southern Social Web (20) Mattress Factory Lebanon—a rumor that acquired a wide array of mythological flourishes. > Bedfellows: Art and Visual Modern Art Notes MoMA: Inside/Out Culture (15) New Curator > BOMB in the Building (19) OC Art Blog > Bound: The Printed Object in PBS NewsHour: Art Beat Context (6) SFMOMA: Open Space > Cairo in Context: Art and The Artblog Change in the Middle East (4) The Ben Street > Calling from Canada (15) The Daily Beast > Center Field | Art in the The Gray Area (Grey Art Gallery, Middle with Bad at Sports. 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Installation view, Lebanese Pavilion, 55th International Venice Biennale. > On View Now (37) October 2012 Photo: Marco Milan. > Open Enrollment (147) September 2012 Akram Zaatari’s Letter to a Refusing Pilot, a film and video installation at the Venice > Praxis Makes Perfect (45) August 2012 Biennale that combines archive and allegory, is based on this story. The artist’s father was > Problematic: Answering July 2012 principal of the aforementioned school. Zataari grew up in Saida and in 1982 found himself June 2012 standing on a balcony watching Israeli warplanes bomb the nearby hillside. He was learning Questions with Questions (2) to use his father’s Kiev camera and captured images of smoke billowing up from between the > Revolution 2.1 (4) May 2012 cedars on the horizon. Letter to a Refusing Pilot combines the intimate, quiet playfulness of > Teaching with April 2012 adolescents with a violent rupture emanating from the sky. Contemporary Art (294) March 2012 February 2012 The installation includes a large video projection, a looped 16 mm film, and an empty theater > The Weekly Roundup (230) January 2012 seat. The video begins with a camera mounted on a drone that rises from the roof of a > Transmission (7) December 2011 building. It cuts to black and white aerial shots of architecture and then a lightbox. As the light > Turkish and Other Delights is turned on, florescent tubes flicker on around the room of the installation; it is as if the viewer November 2011 (11) is in or on the box, complicit with the narrative on the screen. A pair of hands with white gloves October 2011 > What's Cookin': The moves a set of photos across the backlit surface. We see family snapshots of a woman posing September 2011 with two kids, a mother helping a toddler to pet a dog and a teenager mugging for the camera. Art21ndex (34) August 2011 Then the hands take a piece of white paper and make a couple of pencil line drawings on > Word is a Virus (15) paper, an enigmatic structure fills one, and another seems to be a image of two trees in front of July 2011 a building. A school bell rings and the next drawing is of a paper airplane. Center Field | Art in the Middle June 2011 (2) May 2011 Queer Berlin (3) April 2011 Staff Pick (3) March 2011 Week in Review (23) February 2011 > Flash Points: (430) January 2011 Compassion: Do artists have a December 2010 social responsibility? (30) November 2010 Fantasy: Does art expand our October 2010 ability to imagine? (26) September 2010 How are stories and art August 2010 intertwined? (12) July 2010 June 2010 How can art effect political May 2010 change? (75) April 2010 How do we experience art? March 2010 (78) February 2010 How does art respond to and Akram Zaatari. “Letter to a Refusing Pilot (still),” 2013. Film and video installation. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler January 2010 Gallery Beirut. redefine the natural world? December 2009 Students line up for school under the watchful gaze of a teacher. They chatter amongst (41) November 2009 themselves as they rush through the halls and into their classrooms. Images of a typical day at How is art influenced? (38) October 2009 school soon turn to a group of boys that run through the streets, into a building, up its stairs, Must art be ethical? (40) finally climbing onto the roof. There they carefully fold paper airplanes from marked up exam September 2009 papers. When they are done, their paper airplanes are lofted off the roof, fluttering in the Systems: Can art transcend August 2009 breeze and floating slowly on their tiny winged expanse towards the ground. At one point paradigms? (33) July 2009 another group of boys fold and fly some more but this time the paper airplanes gather and The New Culture Wars: What's June 2009 converge like jet planes in formation. An innocuous game turns quickly into a militaristic at Stake? (9) May 2009 gambit and a boyhood fantasy intersects with the roar of jet engines and an Israeli April 2009 commander’s voice barking orders over a radio. Transformation: How does art adapt and change over time? March 2009 (26) February 2009 What influences art? (51) January 2009 What is the value of art? (87) December 2008 November 2008 What's so shocking about October 2008 contemporary art? 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