This site-specific evening workshop led by Rut Blees Luxemburg will use photography to capture urban transformation in the Al-Ruwais district of Jeddah. Rut’s exploratory practice sees her engage in nighttime walks, which allow her to capture urban elements and situations that are often not seen.

Together the workshop will encounter Al-Ruwais in Jeddah, and explore with cameras, iPhones and sketchbooks specific moments, situations and assemblages, that speak about change and future imageries.

The workshop will start with a short tour of the exhibition ‘We saw an endless cycle’, inspired by the ideas proposed in the artworks, we will then spend 2 hours exploring and experimenting with a visual response to the contemporary city and its possible futures.

The workshop will be conducted in English

Pre-registration is required.

Agenda

6pm
A discussion with Rut Blees Luxemburg
Hayy Jameel, Hayy Arts Gallery 2

6:45pm
Group starts making their way to Al-Ruwais district

7-9pm
Evening walking photographic workshop, capturing elements of Al-Ruwais district

Artist bio

Rut Blees Luxemburg is an artist and Professor of Urban Aesthetics at the Royal College of Art. Rut Blees Luxemburg’s work attends to the intersection of art and the urban context. Her practice is photographic and broadens into public art works, publications, exhibitions, and opera. The research that underpins her art practice is centred on the night in the city and addresses current and future challenges of urban experiences and representations of the nocturnal. As part of her expanded art practice, she has conceptualised and established collective systems that enable and support cultural production and community building, including FILET, an experimental art space in East London.