Photos by Joshua Wildman.
Many thanks to Lagunitas, our beer sponsor for the evening.
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Saturday November 6, 2010
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave
Long Island City, NY

Babak Radboy and Tiffany Malakooti will be representing the Bidoun Library this Saturday morning at a panel discussion on the theme of ‘Experimental Libraries and Reading Rooms’ as part of The Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference at the NY Art Book Fair. Participants include:

Wendy Yao, Ooga Booga;
Andrew Beccone, the Reanimation Library;
Robin Cameron and Jason Polan, the Assembled Picture Library;
Tiffany Malakooti and Babok Radboy, Bidoun Library.
Moderated by Renaud Proch, Independent Curators International (ICI).

Visit the the NY Art Book Fair website for more information or purchase tickets here

Thursday November 4, 9-12 Midnight
The Jane Hotel
113 Jane Street
New York
RSVP REQUIRED rsvp@bidoun.org

Starring Christopher Lopez-Thomas as “The Green Screen Ninja”
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Business Manager Dan DeNorch polishes the head of Christopher Lopez-Thomas (with petty cash)

Still life with Parag Khana

Reza Aslan and his dog “Nick” sit for their Skype portrait

Creative Director Babak Radboy gleams the oblong

Birdwatching with Preston Chaumsilit and Dan DeNorch

Some adjustments

Bidoun intern Ismaël Abdallah works it

Nesa Azimi anxiously awaits (socks: model’s own)

Bidoun hosted an evening at The Kitchen for a second time, in commemoration of our fall 2009 issue, “INTERVIEW,” with added eclectica drawn from the world of our winter issue, “NOISE.” The evening, hosted by senior editors Negar Azimi and Michael Vazquez , featured Tony Shafrazi performing his exotic operatic epic Moogambo, an encounter between writer Gini Alhadeff and writer cum flamenco dancer Hampton Fancher , illustrated readings by Abou Farman ( “True Dub”, Bidoun 19 NOISE) and Bidoun’s own Lucy Raven and Tiffany Malakooti ( “The Lovers’ Wind”, Bidoun 19 NOISE). Musical acts included bumpers by world champion competitive whistler Steve “The Whistler” Herbst and music by $hayne Oliver and Fatima Al-Qadiri.

Review in Art in America

Tony Shafrazi performs Moogambo

Gini Alhadeff and Hampton Fancher

Khalid Al Gharaballi, Babak Radboy and Kai Kuhne

Steve “The Whistler” Herbst

“Babak Radboy is the Eddie Murphy of the Interview magazine of the Middle East”
— Jahan Al Dessari

Bidoun Creative Director Babak Radboy will be speaking tonight at Art in General as part of ArteEast’s Across Histories Lecture Series.

Live Cinema/In the Round: Contemporary Art from the East Mediterranean curated by November Paynter features the works of Ziad Antar, Inci Eviner, Gülsün Karamustafa, Hassan Khan, Maha Maamoun, and Christodoulos Panayiotou, six artists from the Eastern Mediterranean who, in varying ways, explore how the moving image informs representations of reality.

http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/737.html

The Bidoun Video Project 2010 landed in Thessaloniki, Greece on September 11 through October 12, 2010. The programs were curated by Bidoun and guest curators Masoud Amralla Al Ali, Aram Moshayedi, and the duo of Özge Ersoy and Sohrab Mohebbi.
Visit ArtBOX for more information

September 18-19, 2010
San Francisco Art institute
http://www.iranianfilmfestival.org
Iranian Film Festival (IFF) is an annual event showcasing the independent feature and short films made by or about the Iranians from around the world.

The Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) is pleased to announce TPFF 2010 will take place on October 2-8, 2010.
http://tpff.ca

Influenced by global musical trends, Turkish pop and rock of the 60’s and 70’s, could be defined as a psychedelic outburst of multi-ethnic Anatolian culture… AnaPop sets out to get younger generations acquainted with this unique genre through a combined event of one-off concerts, workshops, seminars and documentary screenings.
A full-length documentary and interdisciplinary book will subsequently support the AnaPop event featuring 4 days of concerts, performances, workshops and a range of exhibitions (including photographs, LP artworks and posters).
AnaPop provides a unique opportunity to see some of the most acclaimed performers of the period playing live whilst at the same time creating the right milieu to foster new music.
September 15th -16th -17th 2010: Workshops, Seminars, Documentary Screenings
Saturday September 18th, 2010: Concerts at İ.M.Ç 6. Blok Unkapanı, Istanbul
Concert day doors open: 16:00, until 00:00
Visit www.anapop.org for detailed information
Online ticket sales at www.biletix.com.

Thursday August 5, 2010 at 7 PM
235 Bowery
New York, NY

To mark the opening of “Museum as Hub: Bidoun Library Project,” Bidoun will present selected readings and video clips from the Bidoun Library collection. In addition, for the opening day of the project, Bidoun has invited booksellers usually found outside the New York University library to set up shop outside the New Museum.

Join us afterward for dancing and drinks at:
Sweet and Vicious
5 Spring Street
9pm
Music by Tim DeWitt (Gang Gang Dance)