Jalal Toufic

Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. Many of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, are available for download (as PDF files) at his website: http://www.jalaltoufic.com. He is a participant in Documenta (13); and, in 2011, he was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD, and a participant in the Sharjah Biennial 10, the 3rd Athens Biennale, “Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes–Practices and Logics of the Civic” (Beirut Art Center and Argos), “Art in the Auditorium III” (Whitechapel Gallery, GAMeC, Fundación Proa …), and “Wunder” (Deichtorhallen Hamburg).