A house Made of Memory
Presentation / Workshop by Bilal Alame
2-6 PM
What does it mean to map a feeling? To chart the landscapes of the people and places we hold close?
This workshop, part of the Closer Still exhibition, is a shared exploration of how we find our way through personal geographies. We'll consider how memory can become a place we live in, and how we can document it with care.
We will begin with "Tower of Displacement," a presentation that looks at how war has reshaped the sense of home and belonging in Beirut. From there, we'll move into a collective exercise, tracing our own personal maps together. Orientation; is an intimate practice where coordinates hold feelings and routes tell stories.
Using drawing, writing, and some digital tools, we will explore how to hold our personal archives with tenderness, and how technology might help us cradle our experiences of loss and longing.
No prior experience is needed.
Please be sure to register beforehand.**
Bilal Alame is a Lebanese-Polish researcher and educator based in Vienna. Working at the intersection of architecture, memory, and visual culture, his practice explores how displacement reshapes cities and the ways people inhabit, remember, and reconstruct them.
Through digital archiving and oral histories he examines how technologies of preservation can become acts of intimacy and care. Bilal teaches at the Faculty of Visual Culture at TU Wien.