WaraQ Foundation for arts & culture
WaraQ is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to support the contemporary Libyan art scene locally and in the diaspora, Through encouraging socio-critical dialogue between artists and audiences.
WaraQ is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to support the contemporary Libyan art scene locally and in the diaspora, Through encouraging socio-critical dialogue between artists and audiences.
KASHKOUL // Issue 01
Collective resistance
2020
For the first time in what seems like ages, the entire world finds itself once more combating a universal pandemic, but not actually combating if we look at the helplessness worlds’ governments are exhibiting in the face of this crisis. And while the world is busy trying to find a solution for the covid 19 virus, we find ourselves as libyans stuck in an even further, multilayered crisis, facing what seems to be a bleak question: “how do we survive a pandemic under an avalanche of shelling and bombs?”
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// KASHKOUL OF COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE // كشكُـــــول المقاومَــــــة الجَماعِيــــّــــة
Featured Updates:
SHIFTING SANDS // OPEN CALL
WaraQ was selected by The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC and Drosos foundation as one of the eight cultural institutions, which will take part in the third cycle of the Arts and Culture Entrepreneurship (ACE) program (2020-2021)
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Our work as part of Reshape Network: Through the metaphor of Home and the Suitcase, this prototype raises awareness about the position of the artist and the impact, tangible and intangible, of art in the social fabric.
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We believe that the virtual space is also a public space, which lead us to launch our online exhibition platform, to navigate the role of digitalization in times of isolation, massive quarantine, conflict and political divisions that urges our needs for a dialogue, exchange and presentation.
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Our work as part of Reshape Network: Through the metaphor of Home and the Suitcase, this prototype raises awareness about the position of the artist and the impact, tangible and intangible, of art in the social fabric.
Read More
We believe that the virtual space is also a public space, which lead us to launch our online exhibition platform, to navigate the role of digitalization in times of isolation, massive quarantine, conflict and political divisions that urges our needs for a dialogue, exchange and presentation.
Read More
SHIFTING SANDS // OPEN CALL
While ten years passed since the revolution of 2011, “Shifting Sands” project facilitates a dialogue about the current and past critical and inhuman events, conditions within the Libyan context, it proposes a space of refection on the role of Arts, Activism and Academia in relation to the political and social landscape(s) of Libya.
WaraQ In partnership with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung will commission four participants whose works create a dialogue between the borders of different artistic disciplines and diverse backgrounds and cultural experiences. Each artrist will recieve an artist fee of 450 euros, and will be working during 4 to 6 weeks to realize their ideas and concepts with the supports of weekly collective sessions.
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WaraQ In partnership with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung will commission four participants whose works create a dialogue between the borders of different artistic disciplines and diverse backgrounds and cultural experiences. Each artrist will recieve an artist fee of 450 euros, and will be working during 4 to 6 weeks to realize their ideas and concepts with the supports of weekly collective sessions.
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