14 Proper Nouns draws on a set of references from Hassan Khan’s seminal work 17 and in AUC. In 2003, Khan constructed a soundproofed one-way-mirrored room in which he sat for four hours every night over two consecutive weeks. Drinking beer and smoking cigarettes he spoke to an audience he could neither see nor hear about his undergraduate years in the early nineties at the American University in Cairo.
 
Every night, starting from 21 October 2011, and running for two weeks till 3 November, one reference or 'proper noun' from the transcriptions of this 56-hour performative action will serve as subject matter for a discussion between the artist and Nida Ghouse.

Friday 21 October: Funhouse
a year in the house of bliss and loss

Saturday 22 October: Yassin El Tohamy
the munshid who made philosophical poetry as popular as coca-cola

Sunday 23 October: Egyptian TV
strategies learnt from the world's worst television

Monday 24 October: Pulmolar
a cough syrup that bent streets and made asphalt soft

Tuesday 25 October: John Cage
the tapes that came after reading silence

Wednesday 26 October: Attar
daily breakdowns at the theater workshop

Thursday 27 October: Midan Ramsis
paranoia and ecstasy with the crowd

Friday 28 October: Hendrix
a guitar becomes something else

Saturday 29 October: JC Auditorium
auteur cinema and the incredible power of the living moving face

Sunday 30 October: William Blake
how hell was made dense

Monday 31 October: Ard El Golf
making noise in bedrooms and on rooftops  

Tuesday 1 November: Sherif
a friendship forged through a shifting lens

Wednesday 2 November: Cairo Atelier
the haunt of the corrupt intellectual

Thursday 3 November: English Literature
a university department with a seminar room