For Lack of Anything Else?

For Lack of Anything Else?
Written and assembled by Jalal Toufic

Video Credits (in order of appearance):
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
directed by Alain Resnais, written by Marguerite Duras
Courtesy of XX

Cao Fei, La Town (2014)
Single channel video (excerpt), 1 minute
Courtesy of the artist, KADIST collection

William E. Jones, Killed (2009)
Single channel video, 1:44 minutes
Courtesy of the artist, KADIST collection

Florian and Michael Quistrebert, Amnesic CisenmA (2012)
Single channel video, 11:30 minutes
Courtesy of the artist and VIDEOCLOOP

Curator Bio
Jalal Toufic is a thinker, writer, and artist. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. Many if not all of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, continue to be forthcoming even after their publication. He was most recently a participant in the Sharjah Biennial 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). 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

This program is part of a series of collaborative curated online programs between KADIST and LOOP Barcelona,  drawn from the Kadist Video Library and the VIDEOCLOOP archive.