"[…] In this Artist Talk, Walid Raad will introduce his two long-term ongoing art projects, The Atlas Group (1989-2004), and Scratching on things I could disavow (2007-). With The Atlas Group, Raad concentrates on documents, stories, and situations about the Lebanese wars of the past few decades. In Scratching on things I could disavow, his focus shifts to the history of art in the Arab world, with a focus on the emerging infrastructures for the arts throughout the Arab world."

[source: Rochester Spoken Word website, 2018-Jan-22]