PRESS
WATCH OUT FOR ZUZU
Lara Baladi, the Egyptian-Lebanese Artist Changing our Perception of Protest, Document Journal, January 2019
Interview, Lara Baladi, Hromadske International, Ukraine, November 2019
The Gwangju Biennale Is Overly Ambitious, ArtNet News, by Hili Person, September 2018
Looking for a Needle in Gwangju Biennale’s Haystack, Korea Times, by Kwan Mee-yoo, September 2018
DON'T BE TOO CANDID
I Revolutiones Mave, Weekendavisen Kultur, by Pernille Albrechtsen, March 2018
#WhatIf, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen — Intervista a Irene Campolmi, by Giulia Morrucchio, May 2018
Kunst er Ikke SoMe, Informationen, by Ida Marie Hede, March 2018
Dokumentariske Utopier For an Grumset Verden, by Kristian Handberg, March 2018
Lidt Kunsth - Meget Politik, Berlinske, by Torben Weirup, March 2018
BE REALISTIC, ASK FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE
Be Realistic, Ask for the Impossible, exhibition review, Springerin Magazine, 2018
Facing the Sniper, Frankfurter Allgemeine, online article on the exhibition Affect Me, KAI 10, Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany, by Georg Imdahl, 2018
Affect Me: Wie plötzlich Reales zur Fiktion wird, 2017
Affective Societies Blog, 2017
WDR 5 Aktuelle Kultur (1/2), German Radio, 2017
WDR 5 Scala Aktuelle Kultur (2/2), German Radio, 2017
Vox Populi
Report: Public Debate ‘Vox Populi and The Syrian Archive,' summary of the presentations and pubic debate on digital archiving practices, activism, and the role of the artist, Framer/Framed and Tactical Media Files, online platforms, 2017
A Sprawling Tapestry's Surreal Visions of Egypt, Hyperallergic, by Claire Voon, 2016
Perspectives: Lara Baladi, Washington City Paper, by Kriston Capps, 2015
Lara Baladi: Vox Populi, Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, MIT Center for Civic Media, by Katie Arthur, 2016
Viewing Ecologies, essay by Louise Wolthers, Watched, Hasselblad Foundation, 2016
Art and the Arab Citizen: Raising Public Consciousness through the Arts, Guggenheim Blogs, by Salwa Mikdadi, 2015
Artist Lara Baladi helps unravel the mysteries of her 29-foot-long tapestry ‘Oum el Dounia,’ on view at Sackler, The Washington Post, by Elena Goukasssian, 2015
Lara Baladi: On Tahrir, Memory, and Archiving the Revolution, by Sarah Moawad, 2014
The Work of Art in the Digital Age, Art Technology and Globalization, by Melissa Langdon, 2014
Soziale Zensur, Springerin, by Nehad Selaiha 2014
Radical Archive Fever, Hyperallergic, by Mostafa Heddaya, 2014
Not in the Age of Pharaohs, Prefix, by Bruce Ferguson, 2013
"Es ist wie ein Fieber," Wiener Zeitung, by Von Matthias Nagl, 2013
Arab Spring, Awakening, Rehan Dadi, Cornell Daily Sun, 2012
Beyond the Image, Ibraaz, a project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene, 2012
NOTES FROM EL SANIYYA
Muftah, Lara Baladi: On Tahrir, Memory, and Archiving the Revolution, by Sarah Moawad, 2014
Tahrir Cinema
Tahrir Cinema Displays Revolutionary Power of Archives, by Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, 2011
INTERVIEWS
Artist Spotlight with Lara Baladi, ArteEast, 2022
Interview, Zenith Magazine, Berlin, Germany, 2021
Video Interview, (published online), Valand University & Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2021
Interview by Sarah Wolozin, Open Documentary Lab, CMS/MIT for Immerse, 2021
The Protest and the Recuperation, in conversation, Columbia University, Sresha Rit Premnath, The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Dear Truth, Documentary Strategies in Contemporary Photography, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
Interview, Document Journal online, New York, USA, 2019
TV interview, Hromadske, Revolutionize! Arsenal Mystetskyi Kiev, Ukraine, 2018
Lara Baladi: Vox Populi, Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, Katie Arthur for Center for Civic Media, online, Massachusetts, Institute of Technology (MIT), online, 2016
Affective Societies, Affected Scientists!, 5 Questions to Lara Baladi, 2018
Filming Revolution, Alisa Lebow, 2015
Lara Baladi: Narrator of Invisible Things, Dior Magazine, #12, 2015
Summer Autumn Winter and Spring: Conversations with Artists from the Arab World, 2015
Before and After: and the Suspension of Breath in Between, Positionen, Steidl, 2013
A conversation with Lara Baladi, Afterimage, Vol. 39 n5, 2011
Lara Baladi: Rituals of Hope, Nafas Magazine, Universe in Universe, 2011
PUBLICATIONS
ONLINE
Islamic Pasts and Futures: Horizons of Time, Interpretive essays on Islamic artifacts, Texts and phenomena entwining over fourteen centuries by Shahzad Bashir, chapter Grave of Time on my series of artworks, Diary of the Future, 2022
Archiving as an Act of Resistance, contribution, project and essay commissioned and published on:
Ibraaz platform online, Contemporary Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East, April 2016
Culture+Conflict, Supporting Arts and Culture in International Conflict & Post Conflict Situations, online platform, July 2016
Autonomous Archiving, ebook, collection of essays, essay contribution, Artikisler Collective, dpr-barcelona, August 2016
Unfixed Images: Remembering Lebanon, essay by Lara Baladi, Creative Time Reports, 2015
Artists Support Ukraine, Message by Lara Baladi, 2014
When Seeing is Belonging: The Photography of Tahrir, essay by Lara Baladi, Creative Time Reports, 2013
Tahrir, Two Years Later, video installation excerpt by Lara Baladi, Creative Time Reports, 2013
Tahrir, Two Years Later, video installation excerpt by Lara Baladi, Guernica Magazine, 2013
ABC: A Lesson in History, artist book, Orbis Editions & Gato Negro, USA & Mexico, 2023
Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance, Protest, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, the Hasselblad Foundation, 2022
Van Leo: A Monograph, essay, Arab Image Foundation (AIF), Beirut, Lebanon, March 2021
Dear Truth, Documentary Strategies in Contemporary Photography, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2021
The Protest and the Recuperation, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Columbia University, The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, February 2021
Interview by Michael Nuding, Zenith Magazine, The Arab Decade, Berlin, Germany, November 2020
Camera Austria International #143, Special Issue, Nothing is Well in Egypt, essay contribution, published September 2018
The Screen Media Reader, Culture, Theory, Practice, Anthology of Writings on the Screen and Screen Practices, edited by Stephen Monteiro, essay contribution, Bloomsbury Publishing, February 2017
Chronicles of the Egyptian Revolution and its Aftermath, by Cherif M. Bassiouni, Cambridge University Press, December 2016
Watched, Louise Wolthers, mention of Vox Populi and contribution, Corner House publication, December 2016
Vodka-Chamomille, a Cocktail for a Revolution, by Lara Baladi, AGNI, May 2016
When Seeing is Belonging: The Photography of Tahrir, by Lara Baladi, Broadsheet magazine, 2013
In Retrospect, Learning From Cairo, Global Perspectives and Future Visions, published by Cluster, Egypt, 2013
