All photographs © Argos

The initial project to follow a creative process of the Kahraba Collective at the House of Artists in Hammana (Lebanon) unfortunately could not take place due to the covid 19 pandemic.
An alternative project has been developed in which several of our partners in this experience testify about their experiences of creating and supporting artistic work in an intercultural context.
Krystel Khouri (Mophradat) is an expert in accompanying artistic processes and has worked as a cultural mediator in Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, France and Germany. Her research focuses on creative processes, anthropology and dance education. In her testimony, she has mapped the different factors and contexts that play a role in intercultural creative processes.
Eric Deniaud is founder and co-artistic director of the Collectif Kahraba and the Hammana Artist House (Lebanon). In his testimony, he talks about the local and international context of the artistic residency, the current situation in Lebanon and the creation of the new project Cabaret Migrants, based on texts by Matei Visniec.
Mohamed Ikoubaän (founder and director) and Cees Vossen (programmer) of Moussem talk about the long history of Moussem, an organisation active in the field of intercultural arts, first in Antwerp and later in Brussels. Moussem supports artists and composes programmes that shape a global contemporary art scene and contribute to the building of a new common heritage.
The multidisciplinary artist Youssen Atbane (born in Safi, Morocco) is one of the artists who collaborate with Moussem. He presented his multi-disciplinary work to the ARGOS community in a lecture where he spoke about his artistic practice which consists of three areas: live performance as a space of reflection, installation making as an outcome of the performance act and photography and drawing as an archive. All three areas are interconnected and interdependent.