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Walid Ra'ad
Influenced by his growing up in Lebanon during the civil wars (1975 – 1991), Walid Ra’ad’s work deals with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions through film and photography. Using a highly conceptual approach to documenting memorial experiences of military trauma, Ra’ad investigates the forms of public and private violences directly and indirectly related to the on-going military conflicts. He states "trying to keep alive this complicated and ambivalent relation to violence remains a central conceptual and formal challenge ". For Paradise in Search of a Future, Ra’ad incorporates the documentation of several car bombings related to the wars with multi-channel video installation.
Walid G. Ra’ad is an artist and writer who grew up in Lebanon. He has received support from: NYSCA; the Jerome Foundation; Boston Film and Video Foundation; Mellon Fellowship; MacArthur Foundation Development Grant; among others. Ra’ad holds a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester (1996). He has been Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, Queens College, CUNY since 1998. Ra'ad's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in the Whitney Biennial 2000.
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