Ghalya Saadawi
Ghalya Saadawi has been a theory tutor at the DAI since 2018, teaching Contemporary Art and Discontent I and II, which looks at critiques of contemporary art, theories of the contemporary, and art infrastructures and organizing; Witness, which looks at theories of witnessing and testimony, and Capital as a State of Mind, an introduction to the intersections of Marxism and psychoanalysis. Her areas of research, interest, and supervision are critical theory, aesthetics and politics, contemporary art theory, psychoanalysis, critical human rights, documentary and film, Lebanese art and film, health and illness histories, and so on.
She is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London, and Assistant Professor of modern and contemporary art in the Fine Arts and Art History Department at the American University of Beirut. From 2015-2017, she was Resident Professor of the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program. Saadawi was a founding co-editor of Makhzin and a member of the Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR).
She has written for various periodicals including Bidoun, frieze, Art in America, the derivative, Salvage, Bidayat, among others, as well as journals such as Third Text, Art Margins, PhiloSOPHIA, and Journal of Visual Cultures. She is currently at work on a manuscript on hypochondria as a modern figure of critique, and her first book, Between October and November, is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Ghalya@DAI:
2024-2025 Counter, Revolution, Film - Part II
2023-2024 Counter, Revolution, Film
2022-2023 Capital as a State of Mind II
2021-2022 Capital as a State of Mind
2019 - 2020 Contemporary Art and Discontent ll
2018 - 2019 Contemporary Art and Discontent l