Today's Message
Posted: Tuesday, March 12, 2013Today: Year of the City Artist Talk, BPAC Auditorium, 12:15 p.m.
Artist Mariam Ghani will give a presentation of her works today, March 12, at 12:15 p.m. in the Burchfield Penney Art Center's Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium. This presentation is free and open to the public.
Ghani is an artist, writer, and teacher who lives in Brooklyn. Her research-based practice operates at the intersections between place, memory, history, language, loss, and reconstruction. Her work in video, installation, and photography has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and Kabul, the Sharjah Biennials 9 and 10, the 2005 Liverpool Biennial, the Beijing 798 Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, transmediale in Berlin, and Futura in Prague. She is currently a visiting scholar at NYU's Asian/Pacific/American Institute.
Statement by the artist on her work
"My work explores how histories, places, identities, and communities are constructed and reconstructed, and the shifting private and public narratives that comprise and contest those constructions. I am particularly fascinated by border zones, no-man's-lands, translations, transitions, and the slipages where cultures intersect; security cultures, archives, architectures of democracy, and national imaginaries; places where nature and artifice imitate and influence each other; and cities in conflict and post-conflict conditions. I work across multiple disciplines and maintain several ongoing, multiyear collaborations (with choreographer Erin Ellen Kelly and visual artist Chitra Ganesh); the constants in my practice are video, site-specific and site-responsive work, database forms (linear and interactive, on- and off-line), and art as public dialogue (and vice versa)."
