“This spring, I was invited by TQW magazine to speak to Tania El Khoury and Bochra Triki about their work as curators of the current edition of the Tashweesh festival, taking place in Tunis, Vienna, and Brussels. This edition of the festival started during the pandemic; it included an online retreat for artists late last year that tackled different urgencies women face in the art world and beyond. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation, which offers insights into the festival, its program, as well as the artists’ reflection on their own role as curators, and what one can hope to achieve with an international feminist performance festival today.”
For the full article in French by Malf Social Club, click here.
For the full article in French by Joséphine Hobeika, click here.
For the full review by Bakchormeeboy, click here.
تستضيف ليانا صالح في هذه الحلقة من برنامج “ثقافة” الفنانة الحية تانيا الخوري التي تركز أعمالها التركيبة والادائية على تفاعل الجمهور. تناقش الفنانة عدة قضايا متعلقة بالحيز العام For the full interview in Arabic, click here.
“During the Syrian war, they were killed and buried in gardens. Now, the stories of these 10 ordinary people can be heard in Gardens Speak, a haunting sound installation by Lebanese-British artist Tania El Khoury. When the work comes to the Singapore International Festival of Arts (Sifa) in May, people at 222 Arts Club – just 10 of them each time – may place their heads on the ground to listen to these intimate narratives.” To read the full article by Toh Wen Li in The Straits Times, click here.
In early 2021, Tania El Khoury and Ziad Abu-Rish relocated from Beirut to spearhead the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. To read the full interview with Katie Kheriji-Watts, click here.
By Jess Green in the New York Times. What does it mean to be touched by art? That question lingered in my mind — and on my skin — after I experienced “As Far as Isolation Goes,” a one-on-one theatrical encounter devised by Tania El Khoury and Basel Zaraa. For full article, visit here.
To listen to the full interview with David Micklem, click here.
“Lebanese-British artist Tania El Khoury and I met when the Fusebox Festival curatorial team, of which I was a member, invited her to present her performance piece As Far As My Fingertips Take Me in 2018. The US was, and still is, engaged in an intense debate over the proposed building of an enormous wall—meant to keep immigrants out—along our Southern border.” To read the full interview with Anna Gallagher-Ross, click here.