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Residence from 15 November to 5 December 2021.
In the framework of the nomadic curatorial residency by Arts en résidence – Réseau national.

The resident
Biographie d'Amanda Abi Khalil

Public events
l Projection of Ellipses, a conversation with Omar Amiralay, Le Narcissio / festival OVNI
l Conférence Together in Agony we Persist (TAP) : Pratiques curatoriales et extrêmes crises, Villa Arson
l Table ronde Not in the same boat : Résidences / accueil d’artistes en exil ou en état d’urgence, en collaboration avec On the Move, au Narcissio

Writing "carte blanche"
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The nomadic curatorial residency set up by Arts en résidence – Réseau national since 2016, and of which thankyouforcoming is a member, regularly offers a curator or art critic the opportunity to be hosted in several structures of the network during different stays.

This year, the nomadic curatorial residency will welcome the Lebanese curator Amanda Abi Khalil, as part of the 6th season of ACROSS residencies of thankyouforcoming.

Amanda Abi Khalil has an international practice of mediating contemporary art through curating exhibitions, public commissions and collaborations with artists, institutions, foundations and fairs, with a particular interest in the social practices of art and the questioning of the exhibition format.

She will be hosted by four members of the Arts in Residence network from September to December: Maison Salvan (Labège-Toulouse), le Centre d’arts Fernand Léger (Port de Bouc), Finis terrae – Centre d’art insulaire (Ouessant), and thankyouforcoming (Nice and French Riviera).

The Nomadic Curatorial Residency
This residency will contribute to the research Amanda Abi Khalil has been carrying out for more than three years on the question of hospitality in the art world, exploring the fruitful tension between the expectations of the host and the hosted, but also the particular position of the curator in residence, both “guest” and “host”, i.e. invited as well as future host.

It will take place in connection with TAP (Temporary Art Platform), which Amanda Abi Khalil founded in 2014 in Beirut. This curatorial platform committed to contextual, public and social practices in contemporary art initiates artist residencies, public commissions, research projects on practices in public spaces and aims at mediation between arts, territories and societies.

This year’s residency is part of a collaboration with the French Institute of Lebanon and the NAFAS programme – 100 residencies for Lebanese artists in France, co-financed by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture.
The “NAFAS” residencies (from the Arabic نفس, “breath”) represent a breathing space for Lebanese creators and cultural professionals to maintain a creative activity in the framework of cultural exchanges with France.

Amanda Abi Khalil in a few words…
Amanda Abi Khalil holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Projects in the Public Space from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne) and in Sociology and Anthropology of Art from the University of Paris 7 (Paris Diderot). She has a practice of mediating contemporary art internationally through curating exhibitions, public commissions and collaborations with artists, institutions, foundations and fairs, with a particular focus on the social practices of art and the questioning of the exhibition format.

Abi Khalil has held teaching positions at several universities in Beirut. In 2016 she was nominated for ICI curatorial vision award and in 2019 she received the Soros Art Fellowship.
Since 2017 she lives between Beirut and Rio de Janeiro where she is developing a research and exhibition project on the theme of hospitality in the Global South.
Amanda Abi Khalil, Lebanese curator, founded TAP (Temporary Art Platform) in 2014 in Beirut. This curatorial platform committed to contextual, public and social practices in contemporary art initiates artist residencies, public commissions, research projects on practices in public spaces and aims at mediation between arts, territories and societies.
Following the multiple crises in Lebanon since 2019, TAP is now registered as an association loi 1901 in France.

Recent projects:
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