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Downloads
Books Available for Download as PDF Files:
— Art Works and Traces. Forthcoming Books, 2024
— Explicit and Implicit Variations on Hitchcock. Lebanon: Beirut Art Center, 2023
— Radical Closure. Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2020
— Postscripts. Stockholm: Moderna Museet; Amsterdam: Roma Publications, 2020
— What Was I Thinking? Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2017
— The Dancer's Two Bodies. Sharjah, UAE: Sharjah Art Foundation, 2015
— Forthcoming, 2nd ed. Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2014
— What Were You Thinking? Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD, 2011
— The Portrait of the Pubescent Girl: A Rite of Non-Passage. Forthcoming Books, 2011
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What Is the Sum of Recurrently? Istanbul, Turkey: Galeri Nev, 2010 —
Graziella: The Corrected Edition. Forthcoming Books, 2009
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Over-Sensitivity, 2nd ed. Forthcoming Books, 2009
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The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster. Forthcoming Books, 2009
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Undeserving Lebanon. Forthcoming Books, 2007
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Two or Three Things I'm Dying to Tell You. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 2005
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‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins. Beirut, Lebanon: Forthcoming Books, 2005
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(Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film, revised and expanded edition. Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 2003
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Distracted, 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 2003
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Undying Love, or Love Dies, Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 2002
Film Scripts:
— Jouissance in Postwar Beirut (Forthcoming Books, 2014; a searchable PDF file of the film script is available here)
Translated Books:
French:
— Le Retrait de la tradition suite au désastre démesuré, trans. Omar Berrada and Ninon Vinsonneau. Paris: Les Prairies ordinaires, March 2011.
German:
— Credits Included/Abspann inclusive, trans. Christoph Nöthlings. Vienna, Austria: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2011.
Booklets Available for Download as PDF Files:
— Reading, Rewriting Poe’s “The Oval Portrait”—Angelically, part of dOCUMENTA (13)’s “100 Notes–100 Thoughts,” English/German (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2011).
— “How to Read a Text Past a Surpassing Disaster?” This Ottoman translation by Selim S. Kuru of pp. 56–79 of my book The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (Forthcoming Books, 2009) is part of my mixed-media work How to Read an Image/Text Past a Surpassing Disaster? “Blind Dates: New Encounters from the Edges of a Former Empire,” guest-curated by Defne Ayas and Neery Melkonian, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, November 19, 2010–February 12, 2011.
Edited Books Available Online:
— Thinking: The Ruin, ed. Matthew Gumpert and Jalal Toufic (Istanbul, Turkey: Rezan Has Museum, 2010) (available for download as a PDF file here)
"Thinking What's Thought-Provoking!": Book Series Edited by Me and Published by Sharjah Art Foundation
— Jalal Toufic, The Dancer's Two Bodies (2015)
— Matthew Gumpert, The Accident Waiting to Happen (2015)
Brochures of the School of Visual Arts of the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (Alba) for the Three Years During Which I Was Its Director:
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Brochure of the School of Visual Arts, Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (Alba), 2018.
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Brochure of the School of Visual Arts, Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (Alba), 2016-17.
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Brochure of the School of Visual Arts, Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (Alba), 2015-16.
Artist's/Writer's
Statements and Letter of Recommendation:
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Two or Three
Things I’m Dying to Tell You. Sausalito, CA:
The Post-Apollo Press, 2005
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A
Special Effect Termed “Time”; or, Filming Death
at Work, 32-minute video, 2005
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The Lamentations
Series: The Ninth Night and Day, 60-minute video,
2005
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Saving Face,
8-minute video, 2003
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The Sleep of
Reason: This Blood Spilled in My Veins, 32-minute
video, 2002
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‘Âshûrâ’:
This Blood Spilled in My Veins:
— 80-minute video, 2002
— mixed-media work comprising 7 monitors, two 95-minute videos and 5 looped videos, and 3
banners, 2002
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Phantom Beirut:
A Tribute to Ghassan Salhab, 15-minute video, 2002
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Credits
Included: A Video in Red and Green, 46-minute
video, 1995
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This Is Not
to Say that This Is Not the Case, mixed media, 2004
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“Letter of Recommendation by Jalal Toufic,” in The Long Overdue Guide to Lebanon’s Restaurants, ed. Sahar Omran (Beirut, Lebanon, 2006), 51–61
Jalal Toufic bio
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