EventsMarch 17, 2008Monday 03.17.08 -- Field Trip Moma -- Akram ZaatariMonday 03.17.08 -- Field Trip Moma -- Akram Zaatari [NOTE: This event does NOT take place at 16 beaver street! it takes place at Contents: http://www.moma.org/calendar/films.php?id=7854&ref=calendar ________________________________________________ What: Talk / Discussion In Earth of Endless Secrets, which is the title of the talk at Moma this monday, Akram will discuss his recent video work through collected material such as banal objects, photographs, or personal notebooks. He will focus on the construction of narratives particularly in three of his works: "In This House" (2005), "This Day" (2003), "All is well on the border" (1997), leading to his most recent “Nature Morte” (2008).
Akram Zaatari is an artist who lives and works in Beirut. He has been exploring Lebanon’s postwar condition through collecting testimonies and various documents, notably on the mediation of territorial conflicts and wars through television, and the logic of Resistance in the context of the current geographical division of the Middle East. Co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), he based his recent work on collecting, studying, and archiving a particular collection on the Middle East, notably studying the work of Lebanese photographer Hashem el Madani (1928-), as a register of social relationships and of photographic practices. Among his video work:
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