Jalal TOUFIC (Fellow)
Fields of Study:
(thought-provoking and/or art-provoking) thought; mortality; jouissance; the dancer’s two bodies; silence-over and the immobilization it produces; radical closure and the irruption of unworldly ahistorical fully-formed entities it allows; the withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster; aphoristic writing; messianism; creating universes that don’t fall apart “two days” later.
Profile:
Jalal Toufic is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Toufic's biography in his own words:
Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. He received a BA in Philosophy from the American University of Beirut in 1984; an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University in 1987; and a PhD in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University in 1992. His most recent book is What Was I Thinking? (e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2017). His books are available for download at his website: http://www.jalaltoufic.com. Most of his videos are available for viewing on Vimeo. He was a participant in the Sharjah Biennials 6, 10, and 11, the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Documenta 13, Six Lines of Flight (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), and A History: Art, Architecture, and Design, from the 1980s until Today (Centre Pompidou), etc. In 2011, he was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD; and in 2013–2014, he and Anton Vidokle led Ashkal Alwan’s third edition of Home Workspace Program, based in Beirut. He was the Director of the School of Visual Arts at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (Alba) from September 2015 to August 2018.
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