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Temporary Art Platform

Nonprofit organization committed to affecting social change through contemporary art Our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/temporaryartplatform

TAP is a nonprofit organization committed to making another world possible, by affecting social change through contemporary art. Founded in a region of unrelenting volatility and absent cultural policies, TAP curates the conditions for communities, private bodies and governmental institutions to recognize that contemporary artists can be allies in driving enduring social change amidst precarious c

ontexts. In the process, TAP creates accessible tools and production opportunities for contemporary artists, whilst rendering their practice porous and participatory, within and beyond the field of art. TAP was founded by curator Amanda Abi Khalil and registered as a nonprofit organization in Lebanon in 2014 and in France in 2020. It is based in Beirut and Paris, and its interventions take place internationally.

15/05/2026

Continuing our relief residency program amid the ongoing war in Lebanon, we’re partnering with , a contemporary art institution in Brazil, to launch an open call for artists from Lebanon to participate in Oficina Solar, a residency program in Rio de Janeiro between July 20 and October 21, 2026.

Deadline for application: June 1, 2026 at 23:59 (GMT + 3)

Read the full open call on the link in our bio!

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This open call was developed in dialogue with Evidence, an international festival organized by Fisher Center LAB in association with the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. As part of the festival, TAP is curating a program in Rio de Janeiro titled “A Crack in Motherhood”, taking place in September 2026 under the artistic direction of Amanda Abi Khalil and in collaboration with local institutions, independent initiatives, international artists, and human rights organizations.

15/11/2025

Public health | شفاء عام
Contemporary art interventions for the American University of Beirut Medical Center (ACC)

In 2017, TAP commissioned Tamara Al-Samerraei, Catherine Cattaruzza, Hatem Imam, Lara Tabet, Rayya and Zeina Badran, and Nadim Mishlawi and Sharif Sehnaoui to reflect on the different understandings of the hospital space; on the sounds that inhabit it, the people that infiltrate it, or even on the bodies that constitute it.

This year, we finally unveiled the permanent commissions at the Halim and Aida Daniel Academic and Clinical Center at the AUBMC. Watch the video by Zeina Aboulhosn on our Youtube channel.

Thank you to the AUBMC team - Dr. Ali Taher, Mariam Sabbah, Mira Wehbe, Rola Imam, Ghada Atiyah - , Mrs. Henrietta Abela Nammour, Mr. Elias Khoury, Mr. Mohammad and Mrs. Dina Zameli, Mr. Hamzah Dayyeh, Mr. Nafiz Mustafa Jundi, Mr. Michel Khallouf and Commercial Insurance.

24/08/2025

Last Friday (22/08) we witnessed the power of coming together across art, academia, human rights, and grassroots community organizations.

At Largo das Artes, & GENI/UFF + presented two video-investigations from the project “Building Tools for Forensic Research”, reconstructing state violence in Maré and Manguinhos through the methodologies of forensic architecture.

Supervised by Ashkan Cheheltan (Forensic Architecture/Forensis), the work bridges community-based forensic research, visual arts, and access to justice, opening new ways of thinking about the role of art in confronting state violence.

🙏🏽 Our gratitude goes to all who made this evening possible:
Ana Paula Oliveira (mother of Johnatha, victim of police violence),
Eliana Sousa Silva (Redes da Maré),
Luiz Camillo Osorio (PUC-Rio),
Rachel Barros (Ministry of Racial Equality),
the Goethe-Institut,
Largo das Artes (Miguel Sayad),
and Forensic Architecture.

🌍 When different agents come together – from favela to university, from justice to art – we strengthen not only human rights, but also the bonds of the commons.

18/07/2025

‘Between Us: Curating in / on / around crises’ featuring Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, Dr. Alaa Bou Ghannam, Hicham Jaber, Wael Lazkani, Dr. Kirsten Scheid, and Akram Zaatari

Launched in May 2025, ‘Between Us’ is a small publication bringing together six people in conversation in pairs in an attempt to find meaning to curating in the midst of ongoing crises. In Beirut, these are not exceptional moments – they are the baseline. And still, people gather, host, and make meaning.

The publication was born from this impulse, and from a desire to broaden what we mean when we say curating. What happens when the frameworks we inherit – Eurocentric, institutional, material-oriented – don’t hold? When curating becomes not about interpretation, but survival, adaptation, repair?

At TAP, we’ve witnessed how curating here becomes a mode of engagement. It emerges from the ground up, from listening, trying, failing, adjusting. From learning by doing.
We invited six practitioners across fields – a chef and a venue organizer, a trauma surgeon and an anthropologist, an artist and an ophthalmologist – to take part in three informal conversations.

‘Between Us’ is not an answer, but a methodology. A way of being together, of co-creating meaning in real time, across disciplines and experiences. It is part of an ongoing inquiry into how art can respond – urgently, tenderly, radically – to the contexts it finds itself in.

Consult copies at Beirut Art Center or find the digital version of the publication on our website via the link in bio.

11/06/2025

Since its first iteration at the Beirut RiverLESS Forest (Lebanon) in 2021, Art, Ecology and the Commons has continued to explore how art can be a tool for collective learning, ecological awareness, and shared public space. For its second edition in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), we returned to Aterro do Flamengo Park last September, with AR LIVRE ARTE LIVRE, Arte Ecologia e os Comuns reactivating a modernist landscape, inviting reflection on the role of ecology in collective care and public life.

Looking back at the documentation of our main program – the public discussions, playground garden, and in situ contemporary art interventions – this edition places special emphasis on art mediation for early childhood, marking a significant moment in TAP’s curatorial research. Through playful, participatory formats at a 1:1 scale, the garden becomes a space where even the youngest publics can encounter art in a more sensory-driven way.

The choice of the former Playground Pavilion – originally designed by architect Affonso Eduardo Reidy for children before becoming the Museu Carmen Miranda – as our anchor site transforms the space to imagine new ecologies of care and learning, where memory, architecture, and nature meet. Our public artworks in the garden aim to spark a dialogue, not only revisiting the past but imagining the future of this area.

The 2024 edition unfolded on Cosme e Damião day, celebrated across Brazil as a day for children. In this edition, we not only celebrated the youth in Brazil, but dedicated our efforts to the children and communities in the Middle East currently and ongoingly enduring inimaginable violence in genocide and ecocide.

🌿 Stay tuned – more details on our third Ar Livre, Arte Livre, Arte Ecologia e os Comuns will be shared soon ! A residency in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, Juntes na Cultura, Serviço Cultural do Consulado da França starts officially today ! With the generous support of: Juntes na Cultura, Instituto Goethe, Serviço Cultural do Consulado da França, Museu Carmen Miranda, FUNARJ, Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro.

28/05/2025

Day 4 — and the final day — of Breath is Tide was spent in the forest, shaded by trees planted years ago, and planting trees for the future — reminding us that we breathe with and within nature. Accompanied by Farah Kaddour's buzuq music.

Thank you all for coming! We are moved by the incredible attendance, joint celebrations and, inspirational experiences and exchanges.

We will be sharing a video with highlights from the last four days soon!

📸 Hadi Bou Ayash

25/05/2025

Day 3 of Breath is Tide was marked by the powerful unveiling of Public Health at AUBMC — a pioneering art commission in the region and inspired forward-thinking panel conversations on the impact of art and care in healthcare settings.

An exciting afternoon for the younger audience listening and exploring, during A Room Without Walls by Ghida Hachicho, LIGNA, Alejandro Ahmed & Eisa Jocson at the rehabilitated brilliant Karantina Play Garden.

The night wrapped up at Metro Al Madina:
Rehearsing with Shahrazad by Ahmad Ghossein screening; breathtaking performance of GHADR by Chamoun / Sahyoun / Atoui; followed by PRAED’s unforgettable Kaf Afrit set; and closing with a dance party in celebration of TAP's 10 years!

🌿 This afternoon, our last stop takes us to nature in the heart of the city.

4-6 PM
Beirut RiverLESS Forest
We mark six years of Art, Ecology and the Commons: Together in Agony We Persist! with a collective tree planting, picnic, and live buzuq music by Farah Kaddour. Bring something to sit on and share.

📸 Hadi Bou Ayash

24/05/2025

🌿 On Day 4, we inhale the forest, exhale the city.

Join us from 4–6 PM at the Beirut RiverLESS Forest to mark 6 years of art and ecology — a celebration of Together in Agony We Persist!

We’ll plant tree seedlings, share a picnic, and listen to live music by Farah Kaddour. Bring something to sit on and something to share.

Let the forest remind us to breathe.

Shout out to Domaine des Tourelles for the wine and for providing our gathering with a moment of sharing.

23/05/2025

Highlights from Day 1 of Breath is Tide at BAC — thank you all for joining us!
It was great to have you with us — collectively breathing, aspiring, and sharing moments together.

✨ Coming up on Day 2:
3 PM – Sigh at Sursock Museum
6 PM – Performance with Raed Yassin at the Lebanese National Library
8 PM – Screening: Treat me like your Mother by Mohamad Abdouni at Metropolis

Art Explora Festival and TAP can’t wait to see you there!

22/05/2025

Ahead of its international world premiere later in the year, Mohamad Abdouni’s feature film documentary ‘Treat Me Like Your Mother’ will be previewed in Beirut on Friday May 23rd, in a singular opportunity to show the film in his hometown before its release.

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