Zico House
174 Spears Street - Sanayeh
Beirut
Lebanon
- Founded: 1999
- Duration:
- Discipline: Drawing & Painting, Film, Media Art, Performing Arts, Photography
- Targetgroup: International, National
Description
Moustahpa Yamout, an important cultural developer who 1990 began to stimulate cultural activities, created Zico House in 1999 in the Yamout family estate. The name Zico was his resistance name. It lives on in the activities organised in Zico House by Moustapha and his collaborator Rola Kobeissi. Zico House is a chameleon: producing an annual street festival, hosting debates and exhibitions of contemporary art, ngo's in the need for office space, or, when the need arises, offering shelter to refugees. But most of all it is an open stage for everyone who wants to contribute to civil society with a focus on artistic practice.
Accommodation Information
Zico House, a saffron-yellow building located in the centre of one of Beiruts busiest streets.
Location
Beirut is one of the most religiously and politically diverse cities of the Middle East, with significant groups of Muslims (Sunni and Shiite), Druze and Christians (Maronite Catholics, Greek and Armenian Orthodox and Catholics, Roman Catholics, Syriacs, Methodists and Protestants). In Beirut, a city that was largely destroyed by war and that still bears countless traces of this war, artistic interferences in public space will be associated with unique local meanings, memories and emotions. Here history is not only present in the physical and visible urban reality, but it also manifests itself as an invisible city that remains in the mind and memory of the population. Any intervention will affect both cities. In Beirut, questions seem to accumulate and obvious answers do not seem to exist.
Application address
174 Spears Street - Sanayeh
Beirut
Lebanon
Telephone +961 3 810688
Fax +961 1 746769
E-mailE-mail
rkobeissi@hotmail.com
zico_house@hotmail.com
www.libanvision.com/zico.htm
