Riad Salameh

Real Housewives of Knowledge.02 narrates the rituals of generational oral history and its relation to telecommunication. The second edition focused on bees, tradition and biopolitics Knowledge.01 narrates the rituals of generational oral history and its relation to telecommunication. The first edition focused on the weather, coffee reading, and ancestral knowledge

safe&repeat explores the relationship between safety and telepistemology. Can we feel safe from a distance? Please note that the video provided is only a documentation of the work. The piece is a net-art piece and can be explored on https://safeandrepeat.com/safe01.php

Economy of my body was an auto-ethnographic project that was ongoing for a year (2021-2022). The more money I spend on food, shelter and maintenance of the everyday, the more the value of my body increased. In parallel, my search history and the assigned categorization of my personalized ads were made visible as to understand how data tracking is influencing my purchasing choices. Please note that the video provided is only a documentation of the work. The piece is a net-art piece and can be explored on www.riadsalameh.net/work-1/economy-of-my-body

The work was a 24/7 youtube livestream where audience monitor an email address that does not receive any emails except the generic google mails. However, due to technical issues, it only ran for 8 hours 20 minutes and 42 seconds. It was also streaming the audio of the room where the hardware was residing. It questions issues of privacy, time and networked intimacies.

In collaboration with Florencia Pochinki, Maikki Siuko and Natacha Lamounier. The manifesto aimed to break the usual, linear structure and instead think of it both vertically, horizontally and expanding to all directions around the internet. The manifesto took the form of a fungi, a network. The manifesto consisted of short texts and hyperlinks about different perspectives to fungi, care and anarchism. How do Fungi care? How can we perceive care from a fungal perspective? If care consists of the ontological relations with the world, how can we not fall into anthropomorphizing the Fungi actions but instead, be open to new symbiotic relations with humans and nonhumans? What if we build care relationships with all the different parts of the network, while also recognising their divergent agencies? Can a fungal point of view help us destabilize our anthropocentric and patriarchal notions of care? Can it help us decolonize notions of care and start to question who/when/how/what to care about? Please note that the video provided is only a documentation of the work. The piece is a net-art piece and can be explored on www.riadsalameh.net/manifesto