- Rochester Institute of Technology
Walid Raad examines the Lebanese wars, museums, archives and the politics of cultural memory through photography, video, installation and lecture-performance. The Atlas Group, his long-running fictional archive, blurred documentary fact and invention to question how violence becomes historical evidence.
Photography; video; installation; lecture-performance
Major Works
- 1989–2004The Atlas Group
- 2001My Neck Is Thinner than a Hair
- 1998–2006Let’s Be Honest, the Weather Helped
- 1987 onwardSweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut)
- 2007 onwardScratching on Things I Could Disavow
- 2009Walkthrough
- 2002I Only Wish That I Could Weep
- 1999Already Been in a Lake of Fire
- 2006We Can Make Rain But No One Came to Ask
- 2008Preface to the First Edition
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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