Tania el khoury biography

Tania El Khoury is a Lebanese live artist.

Tania El Khoury (born 1982) is a Lebanese live artist.

Biography: Tania El Khoury is an artist who creates interactive installations and performances that reflect on the production of collective memory and the.

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Tania El Khoury: Where No Walls Remain

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ARTFORMS

live art, interactive installations, performances, research and performance, relational aesthetics

MATERIALS / MEDIA

audience as an active collaborator, collection, archives, . . .

GUIDING INTERESTS

cultural exchange
refugees + borders
community
gendered public space
political performance
relationships to city and public space

QUOTE

“Performance art is essentially feminist. Performance art is inherently political. Performance art challenges the status quo, state violence, oppression, and patriarchy. It is radical and ephemeral.”

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The Invisible Dog Art Center and the Fisher Center at Bard are thrilled to present The Search For Power by Tania El Khoury with her historian husband Ziad Abu Rish, as part as Under The Radar Festival 2025.

On a night with a sudden electricity outage in their Beirut neighborhood, the artist and her historian husband discussed the history of power cuts in Lebanon. Born during the Lebanese Civil War, the artist had grown up with the understanding that the problem with electricity in Lebanon began during the war. The historian, however, recalled finding a government document dated 1952 that announced scheduled electricity outages across Beirut. The two decided to research the history of power outages in Lebanon, delving into the intersection between public utilities infrastructure, people’s relationship to the state, and various popular mobilizations to shape both. In time, they reach as far back as the introduction of electricity in Beirut before it was even possible to imagine a Lebanese state. In space, they collect documents across Lebanon and beyond its borders, visiting the archives of colonial powers: Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. What they find is a transnational story that locates electricity at the int