ART PAPERS LIVE!
The Premier Contemporary Art Lecture Series Presents
WALID RAAD
Screening:
Tuesday, November 6th, 8 pm
Emory University, White Hall Room 206
Artist's Talk:
Wednesday, November 7th, 7 pm
Emory University, White Hall Room 208
301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322
For parking and directions, visit http://www.map.emory.edu
This event is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
Co-Sponsored by the Marian K. Heilbrun Music and Media Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University
left: stills from Miraculous Beginnings, 1975-1991, Super 8mm, 52 second loop (courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery)
Walid Raad is an internationally prominent artist whose mixed-media installations, videos, photographs, performances, and literary essays explore the experiences and representations of war and the contemporary history of Lebanon. He is well-known for The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project that enlists a fictional universe to explore some of the social, cultural, political, and psychological effects of the Lebanese wars of 1975 to 1991.
Born in Lebanon, Raad moved from Beirut to Boston as a teenager, and now lives in New York. His formative years were those of the Lebanese wars, which he describes as events that have "conditioned who I am, how I feel, think, and move in the world." His work has been presented in numerous museums and other institutions in North America, Europe, and the Middle East including the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, in 2007, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and The Kitchen, New York, in 2006, Venice Biennale in 2003, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, in 2002. Raad is an Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union, and a member of the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut/New York, http://www.fai.org.lb.
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