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Mazen Kerbaj is a Lebanese comics author, visual artist, and musician born in Beirut in 1975. He also works on selective illustration and design projects and has taught at the American University of Beirut.<\/p>\n

Kerbaj is the author of more than 15 books, and his short stories and drawings have been published in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines. His work has been translated into more than ten languages in various local and international publications.\u00a0His paintings, drawings, videos, live performances and installations have been shown as part of numerous solo and collective exhibitions, in galleries, museums and art fairs around the world.<\/p>\n

His visual art is heavily influenced by his musical improvisation practice; this is apparent in his long standing \u201cfour hands\u201d collaborations with other visual artists, such as Laure Ghorayeb (his mother) and Hatem Imam, as well as his live visual performances, such as Wormholes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mazen Kerbaj is widely considered as one of the initiators and key players of\u00a0the Lebanese free improvisation and experimental music scene.\u00a0He is co-founder and active member of\u00a0MILL, <\/em>the cultural music\u00a0association behind\u00a0Irtijal,\u00a0<\/em>an annual improvisation music festival held\u00a0in Beirut since 2001\u00a0(www.irtijal.org<\/a>), and co-founder of\u00a0Al Maslakh<\/em>, the first label for experimental music in the region operating since 2005\u00a0(www.almaslakh.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As a trumpet player, whether in solo performances or with\u00a0long-lasting groups like\u00a0\u201cA\u201d Trio,<\/em>\u00a0Kerbaj pushes the boundaries of the instrument and continues to develop a personal sound and an innovative language, following in the footsteps of pioneers like Bill Dixon, Axel D\u00f6rner and Franz Hautzinger.<\/p>\n

In 2006, during the 33-day war with Israel, Kerbaj started his first blog: a daily visual diary recounting the conflict, mixing the personal with the collective. All the drawings and texts were later published as a book under the title Beyrouth, juillet-ao\u00fbt 2006<\/em> (L\u2019association, 2007) and Beirut Won\u2019t Cry <\/em>(Fantagraphics, 2018). He also recorded extensively during this period; most notably trumpet solos played on his balcony while the Israeli air force was bombing Beirut, one excerpt of which was shared on the blog, under the title Starry Night<\/em>. The rest of the recordings, including more trumpet solos, TV news, phone conversations with friends, and other bombings of the city were collected in a seminal sound installation that was presented for the first time in Berlin in 2016, during the Maerz Muzik festival, under the title Before the war it was the war. After the war it is still the war.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2015, Kerbaj was the recipient of a DAAD one-year artist in residency in Berlin. He lives and works in the German capital since.<\/p>\n

Since his move to Berlin, Kerbaj has developed several new projects in different fields, such as Borborygmus<\/em> a theater play he co-wrote, directed and performed with Rabih Mrou\u00e9 and Lina Majdalanie; Synesthesia, <\/em>a concept for a live graphic score for an improvising ensemble that premiered at the Ultima festival in Oslo; and Walls Will Fall<\/em>, a composition for 49 trumpets performed in a water reservoir in Berlin in 2018. He also started working on his most ambitious graphic novel to date, a biography of his father, actor Antoine Kerbage, mixed with his own autobiography and stories from the golden age of the Lebanese artistic and intellectual life of the 70s. This work is being published in individual chapters since the beginning of 2019.<\/p>\n

Selected publications<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Antoine I, II and III (2019, 2020, Samandal)
\nPolitique (2019, Actes Sud \/ Arte Editions)
\nBeirut Won\u2019t Cry (2018, Fantagraphics)
\nUn An \u2013 Journal d\u2019une ann\u00e9e comme les autres (2014, Tamyras)
\nLettre \u00e0 la m\u00e8re (2013, L\u2019Apocalypse)
\nCette histoire se pass\u00e9 (2011, Tamyras)
\nBeyrouth, juillet-ao\u00fbt 2006 (2007, L\u2019Association)
\nUne semaine sans la voie de Samir (2005, Self published)
\n24 Po\u00e8mes (2004, La CD-Th\u00e8que)
\nAch\u00e8vement (2003, Self published)
\nJournal 1999 (2000, Alba)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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