The Ruin to come, Walid Sadek Nightlife The Image Text Ithaca initiative

The Image Text Ithaca initiative at Ithaca College brings together an independent press

The first book 001 The Hexagon was published in early 2013

Also featured in the book are recipes developed by Melasniemi on the occasion of this installation-as-workshop

Georg Leidenberger

marks her trajectory in this new cycle of works

The Ruin to come, Walid Sadek Nightlife The Image Text Ithaca initiativeThese collected essays, written in Beirut over a period of 10 years between 2006 and 2016, look at the conditions of living under a temporality theorized as the "protracted now" of a civil war, one structurally capable of perpetuating the conditions of its own dominance. This protracted now, these essays argue, remains untranquil in the many unfinished strains of a troubled history that resist falling back into a settled and distant past.