Bassem Saad is an artist/writer born on 9/11 and trained in architecture. His work deals with future visualization and simulation, queer fear, identity-based space and knowledge production, and market exchanges and/or interfaces that include affect, bodily pleasure, and care.
EDUCATION
Resident fellowship at Home Workspace Program
2018-2019
Ashkal Alwan / Beirut, Lebanon
Bachelor of Architecture (2017) at the Lebanese American University
2012-2017
Beirut, Lebanon
Ecole Speciale d'Architecture
February - June 2016
Paris, France
RESIDENCY
EXHIBITIONS /
SCREENINGS
Web Residency: Planetary Glitch by Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM
Curated by Mary Maggic / February 2019
Saint-rise: I Am A Grain of Wheat in Videobox x Le Syndicat Magnifique
Le Carreau du Temple / Paris, France / September 2018
in Inner Space / Outer Space
RIU + Le Citta' Visibili / Ex-Macello / Rimini, Italy / July 2018
in Immaterial Collection II: Evolving Icons
Screening + conversation with curator Joy Stacey
Beirut Art Center / June 2018
deLINK-when(?) in Institute of Patent Infringement at London Design Festival
V&A Design Museum / London, UK / September 2018
in Insitute of Patent Infringement at WORK, BODY, LEISURE
Dutch Pavilion, Biennale Architettura 2018 / Venice, Italy / May 2018
Alphabet Dust (Double U, Not You You) in Akira Takayama's Beirut Heterotopia
with Jessika Khazrik / Zico House / Beirut, Lebanon / October 2017
Sharjah Biennial 13 Act
LECTURES / TALKS / PERFORMANCES
This Ritual I Wish You Could See (Render and file) (upcoming)
with Edwin Nasr / ACAW Field Meeting Take 6
Alserkal Avenue / Dubai, UAE / January 2019
This Ritual I Wish You Could See: Communitarian Futurism in the Rendered Image
with Edwin Nasr / Rendering Graduate Student Conference
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Harvard University VES
Cambridge, MA / April 2018
ARTICLES /
PUBLICATIONS
syringe spindle scepter
SYLA Journal / January 2019
On Tarek Moukaddem and Omarivs Ioseph Filivs Dinae's Collaborative Work
invited review article with Edwin Nasr / ArteEast / November 2017
Dissenting Departed Polity: Life, Death, and Art in the Extrastate (thesis)
Lebanese American University, School of Architecture and Design / June 2017
The 5m² Maid’s Room: Lebanon’s Racist, Gendered Architecture
FailedArchitecture, Jadaliyya / November 2016
EMPLOYMENt / vOLUNTEERING
Video editing and English language instructor at Migrant Community Center
June 2018 to present
Communications coordinator at Beirut Art Center
January - December 2018
Artist assistant to Akram Zaatari
February 2018 to present
Delegation member at Lebanese Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennial 2018
November 2017 - May 2018
Rendering and visualization specialist
Freelance, ongoing
+more in the fields of architectural design, graphic design, editing, copy-writing, and translation.
AWARDS / grants
Highest Grade Point Average Award at Lebanese American University
June 2015
Full-tuition Merit scholarship at Lebanese American University
2012-2017