“A Few Things You Need to Know When Creating an Art Project in a Public Space in Lebanon Art in public spaces in Lebanon: A research project and tool guide on the legal and administrative challenges and opportunities”
is a guidebook project produced by Temporary. Art. Platform (T.A.P.) in collaboration with attorney at law Nayla Geagea, and funded by Mophradat and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC). The tool-guide offers recommendations for the creation, facilitation, production or commissioning of art in public spaces in Lebanon. The creation of site-specific and contextual work in public spaces is a way to integrate contemporary art practices outside their usual contexts (i.e. galleries and museums) and far from their typical audiences.
This guidebook aims at minimizing some of the administrative challenges artists and cultural actors/organizers might face when applying for permits necessary to carry out their projects. Furthermore, it aims at sensitizing authorities and administrations to the different aesthetics, practices and needs that are essential for these types of projects (cultural and artistic) to happen.
TEMPORARY. ART. PLATFORM (T.A.P) (https://temporaryartplatform.com/ ) is a context-responsive curatorial platform founded in 2014, that actively responds to the needs of the different social and spatial contexts it operates within, through formats that best inform its practice. T.A.P is concerned with the development of social practice in Lebanon, the region, and the Global South through modes of participation, multi-disciplinary formats and decentralized locations. T.A.P has been actively working on small-scale pilot projects advocating for administrative reforms and a cultural policy in Lebanon through knowledge production on social practice, public art, and administrative and legal frameworks.
