Art Jameel, in partnership with Edge of Arabia, announces artist residency at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts @ALJCI @edgeofarabia #ARTJAMEEL | #ALJCI | #EOAUSA

Selected artists: Husam Al-Sayed, filmmaker and member of Telfaz 11 and SALAR, multidiciplinary artist and electronic composer

Art Jameel, in partnership with Edge of Arabia, is pleased to announce the participants of an artist residency in collaboration with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA). Selected artists include filmmaker Husam Al-Sayed and multidisciplinary artist and composer SALAR. From February to April, 2015 the two artists will live, create and present their work in New York City. Husam Al-Sayed is a Saudi-based Palestinian filmmaker, musician and founding member of the Telfaz 11, one of the Middle East's most influential Arabic online video networks based in Riyadh. With over seven million subscribers and over 750 million views throughout its network, Telfaz11 has attracted and helped launch some of the top creative internet talent in the Middle East. SALAR is a Dubai-based Iranian performance artist, electronic music composer and founding member of the Analog Room, a DJ and music platform in the Middle East with an international residency program for electronic music composers. Since launching in 2012, Analog Room has cultivated an extensive network of regional-grown electronic music composers and generated increased awareness about the medium. The three month long residency includes access to EFA’s Studio spaces, introductions to artists and curators through studio visits and collaborations, accommodation and travel costs, as well as a stipend for living expenses in New York City. These ongoing residency programs aim to connect Middle Eastern artists with new audiences, and to explore interconnected stories that link ideas and people across physical and psychological borders. Art Jameel and Edge of Arabia launched its first US based artist residency in collaboration with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Summer 2014. During the EFA residency Husam Al-Sayed will direct three short films, for which SALAR will compose original scores. Two of the films will take viewers on a journey into New York City’s neighbourhoods of Little Syria and Harlem through the perspective of selected artists whose practice is inspired by these historical landscapes. The third film will be a Telfaz11 video diary of the Armory Show through the perspective of artists participating in the FOCUS: MENAM section of the fair. These films will screen via FREEWAY, the online broadcast platform of Edge of Arabia’s ongoing US Tour in partnership with Art Jameel. FREEWAY will launch in New York in March 2015, in conjunction of The Armory Show Focus: Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean (MENAM), of which Art Jameel is Education Partner and Edge of Arabia is Lead Cultural Partner. Facebook: Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives  |  Edge of Arabia Instagram: @ALJ_CI, @edgeofarabia   |   Twitter: @ALJCI, @edgeofarabia #ARTJAMEEL  |  #ALJCI  |  #EOAUSA